The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-09-08

dreds have been shot by infantry and artil-
lery, A thousand persons we're killed or
wounded during desperate attack upon
the military camp and provision depots.
The troops suffered four casualties. A
large number Of workmen barricaded them
selves in the Balakhany hospital. The
soldiers fred on the building and then
stormed it. They completed their work
with the bayonet. The provisions In the
town are running short.
ST. PErERsBuRo, Sept. THE authori-
ties in the Caucasus we're taken completely
by surprise by the magnitude OF the Iatar
rising There is not the least doubt that
the rising was long planned, carefully Or
ganized, and that it is connected with the
separatist movement. The officials at Tihis
state that they have unmistakable proof
that the revolt has been famed by Turkish
emissaries, and agitators, bearing green
standards are now raising the whole
country.
The Tatars intend laying regular
siege against Baku and Shusha. They
have laid many villages In ruins and pitt
lessly massaored the inhabitants.
Unless sufficient troops are available
promptly to suppress the rising the whole
Of that part Of the country will be devas-
tated and the populations OF the towns
and villages massacred. In various parts
Of the Caucasus bands Of peasants have
been organized against the mobiles. These
are invading the domains Of the latter and
Selling all the firearms obtainable.
PARIS, Sept. THE Petit Parisisn says
it learns from q private but absolutely
Trustworthy source that the situation at
Bsku to-day was ~ bad As It could be.
Armenians are killing one another rather
than fall into the hands Of the Tatar
soldiery, who torture all they can secure.
Massacre follows massacre.
The oil wells were all ablaze. The
butchery began with the slaughter Of 1900
Amenians, while the police looked on "a
IL It were a theatrical display. Women
we're shookingly mutilated. Children were
dashed to pieces before their mothers
eyes. Men were either cut to pieces in
stantly or mutilated in an indesoribAble
fashion before they we're put to death.
The Armenian vizier, who barrioaded him.
self in his house, was roasted to death with
his wife and children.
Ten Armenians who took refuge In an
other house were holding out against
the soldiers when a magistrate demanded
admission. The latter persuaded them
to como out, assuring them Of protection.
He then ordered the soldiers to fall on
them and all were barbarousty murdered.
LONDON. Sept. s.-The st. Petersburg
correspondent Of the Times says that the
latest reports from Baku indicate that the
worst is over, but the picture Is ono of the
deepest gloom. Over . thousand persons
have been killed and several thousands
wounded, almost exclusively Tatars, Per-
SLAMS and Armenians.
There are nearly 100 900 fugitives without
work. Almost the whole oil industry u
ruined, involving serious consequences to
the trade and commerce Of the whole coun-
try. The loss is about GO 900 900 annually
to the State revenue from the excise.
The Russ presents the case as a scathing
indictment Of the existing system Of gov
eminent, which is incapable Of finding able
administrators, and has to resort to whole
arsenal Of repressive measures placed In
the unskilled hands Of Generals.
An Englishman who no Ids large inter-
este In Baku, and who has just returned to
st. Petersburg, draws q hopeless picture
Of the situation. Corrupt and incompetent
oflcialdom has 80 long connived at every
form Of wrongdoing that brigandage has
gradually become omnipotent. Therein
lay the germs OF the present anarchy and
the civil war between the Tatars and
Armenians.
The worst feature il the fact that the oil
companies warned the Government almost
q week beforehand Of what was coming
and implored that troops be sent, but mona
came. The attention Of the authorities
was then oentered on the massacres In
Shusha, the adjoining province.
The Bourse Gdsette throws a strong light
on the Transo lucasian drama 1t says
that the authorities at Erivan discovered
unmistakable evidence Of a Mahommedan
plot for the conquest of the country.
A depot for arms was found on the crown
lands bordering on the Aras. The agent
Of the property, a Mussulman furnished
arms to his coreligi onists on both sides
Of the Persian frontier for massacres at
Erivan and Nakhichevan.
The Persian khans Of Maxim have always
been on close terms with the Tatar khans
q. Nakhichevan, and they cooperate !cr the
spread Of the pan-Islamic propaganda, OF
which Baku is the stronghold.
,Proclamations headed: Long Live
Islam,' and -Down With the Giaours' were
found in the possession Of mon who attacked
Armenians. Moreover, the leaders Of the
Mussulman mob wore the red fez as If
boldly proclaiming themselves warriors OF
the Caliph Of Stamboul.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. The British