The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-18
UNHAPPY ARMENIA.
Prospects That Her Con-
dit1on Will Be Worse
Than Ever Next
Winter.
TURKISH oUTRAGEs CONTINUE
Russia At Last Threatens to Take
Action Unless There Are
Real Reforms.
TURKISH OUTRAGES CONTINUE
By Cable to the United Press.

BIZ Cable to the United Press
CONSTANTINiOPLE, July 4, 1896 As
the summer has come on the distress III
the interior as regards food and clotE-
ing has been iessened great deal, for
with the vegetables and grass growing,
| the people get some food to eat. Many
and the prospect is that next winter will
be harder ON the Arnenians than last
winter. Miss Barton's agents have orders
to leave the interior as soon after July
| ais possible, and the relief work viii
be resumed in the fall
Some two weeks ago it was reported
that two Georgian sisters, walking near
their convent, beyond Pera, were set
upon by soldiers. who bound and gagged
the elder and outraged the younger. The
report was not confirmed at the convent,
or at the French Embassy under whose
protection the Georgians are. Last Mon
day, however, the sister who had been
outraged died and the event can no longer
be kept secret. She was buried yes tes-
day.
The soldiers IN that neighborhood are
getting most insolerst, pinching women
on the street. mumbling threats to pass
ers-by, and yesterday they broke into a
bath house, but the proprietor happened
to be Moslem and drove them out
The Armenian Revolutionary Commit
tee presented the following protest to
| the Ambassadors of the six powers on
July l. The German Embassy, however,
| without opening the envelope refused 10
receive or to recognize the bearers OF
| the petition
| The undersigned Armenians Of Tur-.
| key' exhausted by the continued pesse-
cutions and vexatious measures which
| the Ottoman Government, trampIing on
| justice, does not cease to take against
them; weary of suffering all manner
| of tortures when solemn promises have
been made to grant them the reforms
necessstated by their miserable condition;
moved by the recent renewed massacres
at Van and Mix Hissar, by these pres
eTlts inform your Excellency that more
/ than ever they are decided to free Them
selves by any means whatever from the
| tyranny which crushes thena and thew
formally declare that the Turkish Gov
ernment is responsible for the extremity
e whfen they are pushed and upon II do.
| measures which may be taken by the
ana A.1Li5nenlans, and they. throw all the pos
stoie shis coan3seguences a3s OF their despair upon
Fhls Revolutionary Committee feels
| that the Patriarehate is not in a position
! part OF the Armenian community ana Is
| Undertaking & TO speak in the name of the
patton; They say that letters received
! from Nick Hissar (sSiksar) announces a
| terrible massacre of Armenans there in
which four hundred were killed and ter
| ror reigns at Tokat, eight or ten hours
| Also that the Turkish Government exiled
eighty Az1nenians yesterday.
one OF these revolutionists assured the
/ from intimidating the Arneniaps are
inlalming them to action. The last vic
to @ have mere been o0g IS generally considered
crime for which he was hanged. let
ter written by one of his fellow prisoners
suspected they were taking him from
/ prison to hang him, and stoutly refused
| TO CO., The. police quieted his suspicious
amined, and SO they went off. The same
/ letter says that four others imprisoned
in the same cell with the boy are daily
/ expecting to be executed
Advices from Damascus say that the
outbreak of the Druzes is much more
serious than last winter. The women
the desert so that the soldiers cannot
| frighten them by massacreing the de-
ffemselass fea psop,e An alliance has been
formed with the Arabs. and there is a
prospect that Mamaseus may be attack
The Turks hope this alliance wiz be
broken. as has often happened through
| Internal dissensions. For the present the
/ government is turning loose into the
Hauran district shoeless, foodless sol
diers provided only with arms anr am
munition. with this advice: There is a
/ country; forage for yourselves" This
was was mucn the course pursued last winter
and as the Druze villages are desoluate
| there is every probability that tba sot-
dIers ,.s wiz find Christian villages '.easy
/ are said to have been annihiIated in tha
first onslaught of the Druzon. Troons
are being hurried thither from all po:nts
/ along the Mediterranean
/ it is reported here that Prince Joha,,a,fe
called the Turkish ambassador to him,
and told him that last fall when fhe
powers were eager to come into Constan-
ttnopie and by force put an end to Turk
ish misrule, Russia stepped i'm and 1re-
| vented 1t by promising that Turkey was
1 ready to carry out the reforms and show
Ing That the government was doing its
banon continued, should nassacres be re-
| peated, Russia would take no steps to
| prevent the powers from acting
An Armenian acucsed of having assas-
| s1nated Gabriel Effendi about a wear 4 %
was hung at the Stamboul end Of IRE
bridge this morning, and the body was
| left exposed to the public view till half
past nine soldiers with drawn swords
were drawn up in line before the rallows
/ and host of others were keeping the
crowd moving. A paper pinned to tle v;e
! TINS breast gave his name and the crime
for which he was executed. In hanging
| a person here he is made to stand an .
chair, a light rope is passed around his
neck, over the HORIZONTAL bar and tied to
peg In one of the upights. The chair
is then removed and ssrangulation en-
sues
Out Of pure wickedness, a few weeks
ago, some soldiers brokelup and cut the
/ nests of several Armenians living at Hass
Kenyo, on the Golden Horn Complaints
were made and the soldiers were inn
! prismed. Last week these soldiers were
| released and vowed vengeance
1 Last Wednesday a young Armenian and
Jew, partners, left their homes as
usual about A. NJ and went out to
Their nets. On Sunday last their bodies
rose to the top of the water and were
recovered. Their heads were tied back.
cloths had been forced INTO their mouths
and their arms were tied around their
bodies. But the precautioii of weighing
their bodies had not been taIxen and the
murders We're discovered. The police have
shown their zeal by arrvstsrg several Ar
meneans ON suspicion, while the soldiers
whom every one believes guilty have not
been molested.