Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-08-26
Correspondence of the Associated
PreSSl

PreSs.)
London, Aug. 1S.-G. Hagpian. Chair
man of the Armenian Patriotic Assoc
cation In England, speaking of the re-
cent massacres, said to representa-
tive OF the Associated Press:
The Armenians have been surprised
by dispatches announcing another
massacre i'll the very region where the
first Armenian slaughter occurred this
same month, August, 1894. They hoped
that the intelligence emight have been
untrue. but TO theid deep regret it has
pcsh confirmed by later advices fur
nished by the British consuls at Ere
roum and Dinrbekir, both of which
towns are close to the region where
the maSsacreS occurred, and are the
headquarters of provincial governors.
RESPONSIBILITY OF TURKEY.
In answer to impudent denials of
the Porte put forward by the Otto
man embassy in London, the Foreign
Once itself communicated confirmation
OF the news OF the outrageS. Attempts
are being made TO disassociate the Sui
tan ana the Ottoman Porte from par
tlcipation in these atrocities but when
IL is taken into consideration that the
I general OF the fourth Turkish army
corps. which guards the Caucasus. was
/ present with his troops, and that these
! troops We're aided by local Kurds,
! Whom the Sultan has always aided
/ and assisted in their nefarious deeds,
II is impossible for the central author
l.,es nt ,Constantinople to escape re-
| Sponsibility for what has occurred.
CONDUCT OF ARAIENIANS.
! "As for the Armenians themselves
generally speaking, their conduct since
the massacres at Constantinople in
| 1894 has been exemplarily correct
They have preferred 70 leave their
| cause in the hands OF the great Pow
ers or Europe. who made the Turkish
settlement, as regards the maintenance
OF the machinery, such as it is, of the
Ottoman Empire. leaving the latter to
perform n duty which they have with
run knowledge OF all the circumstances
of Turkish rule taken upon themselves
by the siNty-first article of the treaty
OF Berlin. That article, signed at Ber-
lin, July Is, 1878. stipulates as follows:
ARMENIANS LOOK TO ENGLAND.
that the Sublime Porte undertakes
to carry out without further delay, the
ameliorative reforms demanded by the
local requirements in the provinces in
habited by Armenians. and guarantees
their security against Circassians and
kurds. 1t will periodically make
known the steps taken TO this effect to
the Powers. who will supervise their
application.
Fortunately, it was due to British
policy and action that the great Powers
assembled in Berlin and there revised
the treaty of San Stefano OF which
Article lG related to Armenia There
fore the Armenians have ALWAYS
looked to Great Britain to take the lead
in the matter. British public opinion
since 1884 has been so much excited
that Her Majesty's Government could
not compel her ally, Turkey to fulfil
the Sultan's promise in so simple a
matter as the security and protection
not only of the Armenians. but of all
the Christians in Asiatic Turkey in
their lives. honor, property and reii-
gion.
SucCOR OF ARMENIANs.
The Armenians have ever found a
sympathetic friend in the United
States They gratefully recall the
philanthropic and Christian succor
Americans have given their widows
and orphans after great massacres. and
which they are still continuing to give.
and on the occasion of this last mas
sacre they would earnestly entreat the
American people and the Government
OF the United States to use their In
tiuence with the great Powers and ask
them To fulfill the duties which thew
have undertaken towards the Arme-
MAN people In the interests of right
and justice in thehistoricai provinces
so dear to all Christian people.
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