The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-09-01
READY TO REND HIM
POWERS AGAIN LOOK SAVAGE AT
THE SULTAN.
Anniversary of His succession is Taken by
the Ambassadors of the Powers as a
Good Time to Communicate Their Re-
grets That He Is . Bloody Butcher Who
Delights in Faisehood, Treachery, Muir
der, Arson and all Cussedness-Threats
of DismembermentA A gain Made-Sultan
Has Hearl Them Before.

Constantinople, Aug. 30.---(Delayed in
transmission. )---The embassies will not
be Illuminated tomorrow, the anniyer-
Hary of the sultan'S succession to the
Throne, owing to the recent massacrees.
The dragomans of the embassies. while
they will go TO Vildiz Kiosk TO convey
the good wishes of the ambassadors.
have been instructed to leave notes
which, although they congratulate the
Eulsan upon the anniversary Of his sue
ression to the throne, express deep re-
gret at the recent outrages
There is no longer any doubt that the
massacrees were organized by the Turk
jsh authorities, and it has been ascer-
tained that orders were only given to
the Bashi-BaZoukS to cease massacree-
Ing the Arnenians after the bloody work
bad been going on for thirty hours.
1t is also a fact that hundreds OF
Turks were brought over from the Ash
ATTIC side of the Bosphorus inorder to
take part in the massacrees, and many
Armenians were put in boats which
were then taken out to sea. Their fate
is unknown; but there is not the slight
est doubt that they lzTe been drown
ed.
PUNISHMENT TOO SEVERE.
Although it may be true that the attack
or the Ottoman bank originated with
the Armenian revolutionary commits
sion, it is admitted on all sides that
the massacrees which followed were
not justified and that from 5000 TO 1900
people dost their lives in this city or in
the suburbs during the past week. The
a q in Al IN T1,.ai
palace, the branch Office of the Credit
LyOnnaise and other places. the avowed
object being to force the powers 10 inter
Vene in the Armenian question.
A dispatch received here from Phil |
Iippi says that serious conflict occur |
red last week on the Turkish and Bull |
garian frontier. Ii seems to have been |
an outpost affair, near the village Of |
Shirovaluka. Twelve Turks were kill |
ed or wounded and five Bulgarians were |
wounded. AS result further and much |
more dangerous complications are an
ticipatcd.
DISMEMBERMENT
People in position to judge the sit |
ua ton accurately believe that the sui |
TN has once more approached danger
ously near to the point of fixing upon
the powers the necessity of dismember-
RHS the luTklSn empire.
The joint note of the ambassadors
pf the powers asking the Turkish gov
erment TO suppress the disorders in this
vicinity was received like the similar
notes Of the powers regarding the mas
sacrees in Armenia. The warning that
the sultan is endangering the Turkish
empire by permitting continuance
OF the state of anarchy which has pre-
walled, is not looked upon as likely 70
have more than passing effect upon
the sultan.
The Armenians who surrendered at
The Ottoman bank, and who were sub
sequently taken out of the suitan's iu-
risdaction, frankly announced that il
was intended to continue the work of
agitation until the alleged wrongs of
me Armenians We're redressed. and
later, circular was received at the
embassies from the Armenian revolu-
committee, confirming the an
nouncement that the agitation would be
continued.
The American college at Hissar and
the Bible House at Stamboul are still
guarded by troops, and United States
Minister Terrill has done everything
possible under the circumstances to
protect the lives and property of Amer
leans.