The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1896-01-30
HAWAII IN TURKEY.
ISLAND BoRs WOMAN WRITES oi
ARMENIAN MAssACREs.


The following is from letters OF
DIR. Shepard and wife, medical
missionaries in Antsb, Turkey.
Mrs. Fanny (Andrews) Shepard,
NJ. ID. is a sister of Sheriff l.. a.
Andrews of Maui, and lived here
until her 23rd year i'll 1873. The
missionaries are bravely doing their
duty in staying to defend their dis.
ciples.
"AINTAB, Turkey, Nov. rs, 1895.
On the 18th a massacre occurred
in Aintab in which some three hun
bred Christians were killed and as
many more wounded. The lives and
property of the Americans were
guarded by soldiers sent by the local
government, and we have yet a
number of soldiers stationed between
the college and girls school prem
Uses. The hospital is full OF wound
ed. Nearly all the Christian shops
in the city were looted and about
one fifth of the Christian houses.
All business is at standstill. The
greatest anxiety prevails. The adj
visibility Of sending the American
women and children to the coast is
being debated. | am well, but
every day from early to late am at
work at the hospital and | am too
tired to write tonight"
The above was written by DR..
Shepard, but he was too much ex-
hausted to finish, and the story is
continued by Mrs. Shepard.
sHR1EKs AND SHOTS HEARD.
"The stories that come to us of
horror, brutality and butchery are
blood curdling-and the suffering
from want that hangs over the poor
creatures that were driven from their
homes and everything taken from
them, is something appalling. l
was glad for the sake of the children
that we were a little out of the city
those two horrible days and could
see only at distance the wild hor-
DIES of villagers pouring into this
side Of the city, while the deadly
work of the mobs who attacked the
Christians i'll the markets was hid.
den from our view and we could
only imagine it from the horrible
din of shrieks and firearms that rose
from the city half to mile away.
'No one from the college prem
Uses is allowed to go to the city and
vice versa, except by special permit
from the government and with an
armed guard-though DR.. Shepard
IS allowed to go to and fro from the
hospital. The work of the college
was discontinued for a week, butts
now partially resumed only, as sew
eral of the teachers are in the city
and not allowed to return.
The churches and schools are
closed--people scarcely dare stir out
of their houses. So the reign of
terror continues, and we know not
what the end may be! Several
houses of wealthy Armenians have
been burned and many are being
imprisoned.
You have doubtless seen &C.
counts in the papers Of this same
sort OF thing going on all over the
country. 1t is estimated that 100,
900 are liable to perish from wan
this winter unless help comes.
Poor Marash is suffering terri
bly,. After pillage, three Christ
ian wards were burned. leaving
hundreds Of families without shelte
for their heads.
THANKSGIVING DAY AT AINTAB
Tomorrow will be a joyou
Thanksgiving with you-it will b.
a day Of prayer and fasting will
us. We have too much Turke.
, already to require one for the cele
bration Of Thanksgiving. But W
have much as Americans to b
thankful for even in the heart q
Turkey, and we are thankful 70
you who are not here.
81 should not forget to mention
the kindness of many of the bette
class of Moslem families who tool
in numbers of defenseless Armen
ans who threw themselves upo
their protection during the wors
, days of last week. There is on
living outside the hospital gate
who, with company Of neighbors
defended the hospital grounds quit
bravely when the mob was rushin
| on to tear down the gates. Di
E Shepard saved his brothers lii
some time ago and the old man ha
been a good friend ever since; an
he regards the hospital like the al
l. pie of his eye. But the Moslen
don't send any more sick people
the hospital as they used to. The
s suspicious are pitiable
u You must not accept all that
i said i'll the papers as to the cause I
! these massacres, etc. II was vel
d easy for Nero to find a cause f
S the burning of Rome! oh, II
). slaughter of the innocentsl Mu
time go on and on, and nothing |
S done to rescue them? | have l
y heart to write these days"