New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-02-02
SIR PHILIP INDIGNANT.
ALLEGED ANGLO RUSSIAN MISUNDER.
STANDING IN CONsTANTINOPLE.

RELIEF WORK EXTENDING-oNE SCHEME TO
STOP THE ARMENIAN MAssACREs-THE
PROSECUTED MAY SEEK THE Shell
TER OF ROME AND BECOME
CATHoLICs-MoRE SUFFER
ING REPORTED
Constantinople. Jan. lc-It ia said that at the
Ambassadors meeting January Sir Philip
Currie British Ambassador. spoke in rather plain
terms to NJ Nelidoff. Russian Ambassador, prac-
tically charging him with double dealing-that is.
attending the meetings and apparently consulting
with his colleagues while in reality he was playing
his game alone. Sir Philip who was really unwell
at the time. seemed to get provoked and abruptly
left the meeting. Nelldoff. it is said then turned
to the others and said he could not understand
what Sir Philip meant and asked II he had given
occasion for any such charges. whereupon Baron
Calico. Austrian Ambassador. answered that he
thought Sir Philip had some provocation.
The Relief Commission. under the presidency OF
the Sultan and the viceprcsidency Of 1smail Pacha,
has sat for four successive days, and has already
decided the form OF the subscription tickets to
be issued and the order has been sent TO the printer
The names OF the subscribers TO be published
in the journals 1t is said on frst-rate authority
that a similar commission after the earthquake
would give a family 40 piasters and oblige the
recipient to sign a receipt for 250 piasters
lief The Bible House has already sent twenty
bales of $50 pounds each. all new clothing or new
goods, to be made up. The Armenians have or
ganized sewing circles to take old clothing and
mend It, and great quantity OF second hand goods
has been far Trebzond. Erzeroum and
Caesaria. Considerable money is also being dis
tributed.
The Government in some OF the villages OF Svas.
besides pressing for back taxes which the careless
of of the officials had allowed to accum'i-
late. is already collecting the taxes for the coming
year, which begins March 1S.
THE TIME TO ACCEPT ISLAM.
At Harpoot prominent Turks and even those who
are in official positions saying that the Armenian
name must disappear that another massacre Is to
take place and that now is the time TO repent and
accept Islam The people greatly frightened,
and when, December 2S the two villages where
the first outbreaks occurred before. were again at
tackled and fifty people killed. tho terror in Harpoot
supreme. At Harpoot the Catholic priests are
going around. under escort OF Iabehs. telling the
Armenians that safety can be found in the protec-
on OF the Pope As Russia protects all those of the
Greek religion II Is understood that France pro-
tects all Catholics
The Catholics and Greeks have suffered hardly at ALL
and the report comes from Gurun that large num-
beers Of Armenians are becoming Catholics. And un-
less Europe intends interfere. this will probably
! be the best solution of the Armenian question.
DR.. Lyman Bartlett and his daughter Miss Nellie
Bartlett. the point OF starting for America
on account of the poor health OF Miss Bartlett.
The report that 15S bodies were thrown into a well
Oorfa. drenched with kerosene and burned. is
pretty generally believed.
A letter has been received from OF the leading
Armenians in Arabkir which tells OF the deporable
condition Of the Christians in that district. Among
other things the letter says:
The people are naked. They have only the Cloth
the massacres Many have nothing but the night
dress in which they escaped from their burning
ha Ia glv nH ne
bread. But family composed OF ten persons hardly
receives bread enough for four. Ia.
4 considerable number OF wounded are In the city,
who greatly need surgical care and medicine, PIT
hs az ha s to dSn Nay hs OTG sD
famiiiesi '''e' ''' '
Boston, Feb THE following letter from Oor.a,
Central Turkey, dated Tuesday night December 81.
gives account Of new massacres. The writer
| says:
we have had our second massacre and most ter
rbe this time IN OF e as we az
continued ali day sunday, Special efforts. were
% any snd the
were spared and because can serve to some eS
city ! wish s9uid represent It and the need q all
lies bured With many Of his
ton. He leaves six orphans delegation OF prom
music. near the closing scenes. Before night two
camel-loads of bedding were secured and promise
ordinary food.
Two new incidents relative TO the foreign sta
tionnaires'' of Constantinople related In the
STEAMBOAT correspondence sent TO European papers
1t is said that the Legation OF the United States
claims more than ever the right TO have IT'S sta
tionnalre' the other legations" But instead
Of insisting upon having frst-cass cruiser In the
Bosphorus Minister Terrell only requests now that
permission should be granted 10 the Bancroft, a
gunboat Of four guns TO come up TO the Golden
Horn. The European correspondence adds that
with those conditions It seems difficult 10 the
Sublime Porte to offer opposition to the passage
through the Dardanelles OF the American 'aviso.' ."
The other incident refers 10 the appearance Of
one more and unexpected parsonage upon the liquid
stage OF the Bosphorus The Minister OF Holland,
Baron Van der Staal Van Piershell, has informed
the Porte that his Government. whose flag has not
fioated over the waters Of the Bosphorus for a
dozen years. when Dutch naval vessei paid a
Alkmaar, now In the port OF Smyrna Shout be
had not granted the permission at the latest ad-
United States behind Holland 1t fears. by granting
TO the Dutch fr!gate the necessary frman TO enter
the Dardsnel.es, to furnish Mr.. Terrell and Sir
their turn, for the entrance OF larger vessel than
the 'stationnaire." And. Of course under such cir
cumstances. the other great Pow ers would not re-
main backward but request q similar permission
for themselves.