The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-16
THE RED CROSS AND ARMENIA.
Clara Barton states the Case. seems TO
Have Submitted.


ConstRntineple. Jan. l5.-Slr Philip Cur
RE. the British ambassador had an audi
ence with the sultan today and presented
an autograph letter from the queen. The
c0nsul az AIeppo VIII start for ZeitoUn to-
morrow.
Philadelphia, Jan. 15-The Press today
prints letter from Clara Barton on the Ar-
men!an question. She states that The ti-st
appeal Of the Red Cross 70 act came frcm
the missionary boards of C0nstanCncple.
To this two conditions were made. that tne
request cCme from the people OF the entire
country, ana that sufficient money sbCgld
be realized. The first was complied with.
and the national committee guaranteed sUf-
ficient funds The International committee.
the ofilc.al head Of all the Red Cross treaty
nations. having no objection. preparations
for sa ling were made. The American Red
Cross had no part in raising the money, its
only mission being 10 distroute. Then came
the 0bjec r0ns from the Turkish govern
melt. Hiss Barton declares that that gov
ernment is not antagoa.stlc 90 the Red
Cross as such, but objects 70 the disJrib.l-
ton of foreign relief on entirely different
grounds. neither in its power nor that cf
the secretary 10 control
Chicago, Jan. l5.-M.rhsam Serailian, a
native Of Armenia. now a student IN the
divinity school Of the University Of Chica-
&c, has received news that his father has
been murdered his house burned and his
amlly scattered in the Turkish massacre II
November -, at Caesarea. The family con-
sisted of father. mother and seven children.
five of whom were at home at the time q
the attack The father was druggist, ard
the family lived in rooms above the sore
Caesarea was almost entirely destroyed on
November 30. and Seratian's house went
with the rest Everything OF value which
could De carried away. was stolen oy me
Turks. and the torch was applied 20 the
rest. house. furniture and all being utterly
consumed. After the Turks had departed
those who had escaped the masSa re re-
termed 20 the scene Of horror. Among other
Iodtes they found that OF Serailian in The
street IN front OF his house Not content
with killing him the fiends had shametaly
nautflated the body. Ii was entirely strip
ped OF clothing. and horribly gasAed about
the breast and face.
Worcester. Mass, Jan. l5.-plspatcheS
have been sent from this city 70 Queen VIC
toria and President Cleveland, asking them
10 put a stop 10 the massacres n Armenia,
ana 10 a!d the Red Cross in affording relief
10 the sufferers. These dispatches are
signed. Two Hundred Armenian Residents
of Worcester. Mass.
Boston Jan. l5.-The following cable dis
ratch was received today by the American
board of commissioners Of foreign Missions
IN Boston. from the chairman of the relief
committee IN Constanunople: weather
severe. many dying from exposure and
starvation Distribution doubled every
where Leave apportionment 10 US
London. Jan. 15-The Daily News. In an
editorial assumes that the letter Whch
the queen has dispatched 10 the sultan can
only be a plea for humanity. an appeal TO
the sultan's better nature. or womanly
and royal protest against the hideous ana
horrible Armenian outrages.