The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-14
Vice Admiral CuIme-Seymour Re-
moved and Vice Admiral Hopkins
Made Comma mander-in-Chief.
SULTAN'S REIGN ABOUT OVER
LIKE HIS BROTHER MURAD, HE IS
SAID TO HAVE LOST HIS REASON,
And if Not Deposed by the Sheik-uI-
Islam, He VIII Probably BE
Ousted by the Powers.
Especial Cable Letter.)


tain that a crisis has been reached in the
| relations of the powers with the Turkish
government and that Great Britain is pre-
| pared for any emergency, even to force the
! passage of the Dardanees with her war
| ships, if necessary Officials here are, how
| ever silent as the grave in regard to
| the matter but important announce
| ment was made to-day that seems to have
| some bearing on the question. 1t was given
| out that Vice Admiral Sir John Omman-
ney Hopkins, K c. B., had been appointed
to succeed Sir Michael Culme Seymour, x.
| C. B., as ommander-in-chief OF the Med
iterranean station. The Mediterranean
| squadron now consists of fifteen war ships,
| and they stationed not far from. the en-
| trance Of the Dardanelles. No reason is
| given for changing the commander-in-
| chief at this critical stage, but it is certain
| British interests will not suffer, Admiral
| Hopkins is a skilled officer and brave
he is well versed in naval warfare.
Mrs. Emily Crawford, writing in the Sun
day Times. says: "A friend who has been
admitted to the Yildiz palace for profess
sional reasons says that the Sultan ought
to be deposed in his own interest, and that
if he is not, he will be murdered by the
jealous palace minlons He never sleeps in
the same bed for two nights running. He
| believes that emissaries are in the building,
and the palace clique maintain the deiusion.
| It becomes a grave question whether he is
not insane, like his brother Murad (the de-
posed Sultan), in which case the Sheik-ul-
Islam has the pow to depose him.
The Associated Press has secured the
following copyright dispatch from Constan-
tinople, by way of Sofia, Bulgaria: ITO
those who have eyes to see, there is more
and more evident the approach of a
crisis in the affairs of the decrepit Ottoman
empire. But the Turk himself offers no
signs of appreciation of the fate that
is impending over him in the limit that has
apparently been reached in the patience of
the European powers with the process of
determination of the Armenians that has
been steadily and relentlessly pursued by
the Turks. There is diminution in
rancor displayed by the Mussulmans to-
wards the Armenians and no sign of the
| REIMBURSEMENT of the Turks contention
| that the Armenians are persistent and de-
| termined revolutionists and agitators
| against the sovereignty of the Sultan, and,
/ such, invite the strongest repressive
measures that have been used against
! them
| ANOTHER OUTBREAK PROBABLE.
Some color has to be admitted to this
! contention of the Turks, from the fact that
! some of the ENJOYS of the powers have
/
/ revolutionary committee declaring that if
! the reforms demanded by the Armenians at
/ the time of the raid by them upon the
| Ottoman Bank are not granted, there will
| be a more serious outbreak against the
! Turkish authorities, and over much wider
area, than was the last, which resulted in
the apparently indiscriminate slaughter of
ArmenlanS in this city.
''Since Friday there has been large in
crease of the patrols of cavalry in The
which are situated the French and English
ambassadors residences, and in Buyukdere
and Pera. This is the Sultans precaution-
ary measure against future outbreaks, in
compliance with the warning contained in
the note from the powers. These troops, it
is understood, have been warned that they
will be responsible if outbreaks involving
the destruction of property and loss of life
occur. But the troops are at the same
time instructed that they are authorized
to their arms in self f-defense if they
are attacked. These so-called precaution-
airy measures have not improved the stua-
ton and have rather served to extend the
feeling of terrorism on account of the feel
ing Of doubt as to what secondary and
yelled meaning may be hidden behind the
letter OF the 1nstructlons TO the troops
busy with the work OF helping the dis
| tressed Armenians.
| Der of victims of the massacres of this
| city is eleven hundred Other estimates
run pretty much all the way upwards from
this figure. The official estimate is coupled
| with the allegation that many of those
| killed We're. IN reality, TURKS, out tfat they
We're were buried by mistake with the Arme-
| mans, and that so their numbers went to
! swell the supposed number of Armenian
| victims. This is undoubtedly designed as
| an apology and explanation of the asser-
! ton contained in the note of the powers
| that the savage bands which murderously
| attacked the Armenians and pillaged their
| houses were not accidental gatherings of
| fanaticaI people or undirected mobs. but
| there was every Indication of their spe-
! cial organization and of its being known
! to. if not directed by the authorities In
| foreign circles here the statements that
| Turks were killed along with the Arme-
mans is denied. The actual number of
victims of the disorders was certainly five
| thousand and will probably reach six thou
sand. The military authorities state that
| three soldiers were killed and thirty We're
wounded. The Porte states that 10 Mus
| sulmans were wounded.
NO MUSSULMANS PUNISHED.
"All Mussulmans who have yet been tried
by the extraordinary tribunal appointed TO
pass judgment en- those implicated in the
| recent massacre have been acquitted of the
charges of completely. The evidence
against many of these was deemed by for
eign residents here conclusive and the fail
ure to hold them adds to the conviction
that the Porte has intention of comply
ing with the demand of the powers that
the culprits shall be brought TO punish
ment. In view of this failure TO punish
the authors of outrages upon Armenians,
the state of terrorism among the Arme-
mans continues unabated and the exodus
Of these people goes with no diminu-
ton. The appearance of the refugees.
many OF them in state of destitution
from the hasty nature of their flight and
all laboring under extreme apprehension
| Of blow likely 10 fall at any time. evokes