The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-09

Athens. Sept. S.-The following dis
patch dated at o'clock this evening
has been received from Gambia:
The Bashi-bazouks are committing
/ excesses and the Christians in the sur
rounding districts are arming to march
to the assistance of the Canadians.
There are eight warships in the har-
Dor and a fresh bombardment is ex-
pected.
The British, German and Spanish
| conSulates have been looted and thus
far 800 native Christians and 81 British
subjects have been killed.
The Asty says it learns from an au-
| thentic source that as soon as the Brit
| ish troops arrive at Gambia from Malta
the Turkish garrison in Gambia viii be
expelled, martial law proclaimed and
the ringleaders of the riot put on trial
and publicly hanged if guilty.
According to a dispatch from Can
dia, sent late this evening, the admir-
ais of the international fleet have de-
cided to compel the disarming Of the
Bashi-BaZoukS and the surrender OF
the instigators of the disorder.
Canea, Island Of Crete, Sept S.-The
president of the Cretan executive COM
mittee, has notified the foreign admirals
that in view of the massacre at Gambia
it is impossible TO continue the effort
to organize an administration until the
Turkish functionaries and troops are
withdrawn.
He demands the convocation Of the
Cretan assembly and proposes to place
a force of CretanS at the disposal Of
the International administration.
EIGHT HUNDRED KILLED.
London, Sept 9.-The correspondent
of the Times at Gambia, telegraphlng
Thursday, says:
1t is estimated that no fewer than 500
Christians have been massacred and
the town has been pillaged by Bashi-
Bazouks and the Turkish soldiers. All
reports agree as to the disgraceful be-
havior of the Turkish troops
The correspondent of the London
Standard, telegraphing Thursday from
the British battleship Camperdown, off
Gambia, says:
The refugees tell CHASTITY stories Of
massacres. They report that no fewer
than 700 Christians are missing. Sew
eral attempts were made last night to
set on fire the offices of the Eastern
Telegraph company. 1t has been as
certained that all the houses over
looking the British camp were loop
holed for rifle fire and barricaded.
This shows clearly that the outbreak
was pre-concocted.
The behavior and attitude of the
Turkish troops have been and still are
inexplicable. Without going so far as
to assert that they took part in the at
tack on our troops-though many peo-
pie are ready TO affirm that they act
ually saw the sultan's soldiers firing on
our soldiers-it is impossible to con-
tradict the positive fact that they made
no attempt to render assistance
Every Christian survivor Of the mas
sacre swears that the butchery was
mostly the work of Turkish soldiers,
who first robbed and then slew their
victims. Edhem Pasha is the man who
ought to be held primarily responsible.
Had he wished to prevent bloOdshed he
would most certainly have done So
Not till the British troops under Col
onel Reid had been fighting hard for
hours did Edhem, with his Turkish
soldiers, arrive upon the scene He
had the effrontery TO say that ne
had only Just heard that the British
troops were being attacked by thous-
ands Of Bashi Bazouks. 1t is needless
to comment on this brazen-faced ex-
cuse.
1t is enough to say that Edhem Pasha
must have known what was happening
from the moment the first shot was
fired, if. indeed, he did not arrange the
plot himself
The Times and other papers call upon
the government for energetic action IN
Crete, more especially if the stories or
the completely of the Turkish troops
are confirmed. The German and Aus
trian papers declare that their govern
ments will have nothing TO do with
Crete.
The Cologne Gazette says: Germany
NAV congratulate herself on having
withdrawn her fleet from Crete, thereby
leaving the responsibility to others.