Evening star., 1909-05-12
TWENTY-FOURHANCED
Turkish Mutineers Publicly
Executed in ConstantinopIe.
DONE TO IMPRESS PUBLIC
Horrid Tale of the Second Massacre
at Adana.
ARMENIAN CONSPIRACY TALK
Fanatica1 Mohammedans Destroy
Villages Around Marash-Essie
Chambers, Brave Missionary.
DONE TO IMPRESS PUBLIC
ARMENIAN CONSPIRACY TALK

CONSIANIlNoILE,M May l-.-CoHstdIl-
tinople witnessed another batch of execu-
tions this morning, when twenty-four mu-
tineers of the army and navy were hanged
in public within the city limits. This
makes a total of thirty-eight executions
within the capital since the revolution Of
April 13.
Four Of the men today were hanged
near the sultan's palace, eight at the ma
rine barracks. eight IN the Djinzi Meidan
quarter of Stamboul and four at the war
office.
Several of the courts-martial that SEN
fenced these men to death explained the
reason Of the public hangings by saying
that traditions of corruption so pervaded
Constantinople that had the fangings not
been public the people would have thought
that the condemned men had saved them
selves by bribing officials or that the
statement Of their executions was nothing
more than political lie. Public execu-
tions therefore, were deemed a necessity
to show that the guilty had been pun
ished.
Priests With Winning Side.
Priests prayed with the condemned men
shortly before they were taken to the
places Of execution, and commented upon
the evil deeds which had brought them to
their deaths One of the condemned men
spoke up and said that all the priests he
had talked with on the day of the So
called mutiny and the days following had
approved OF his action.
w. w. Peet, the local representative Of
the American board has received letter
from Thomas D. Christie, dated Tarsus.
May 4. Mr.. Christie, who is a missionary
were killed in Tarsus, except by the loot
ers fighting among themselves, but In
Adana about $50 Turks. including fifteen
soldiers. were killed. The feeling there is
still very bitter, and 1t has been increased
by outrageous articles in Ittidal. an
ss1n this case,~ DR.. Christie writes, 1--WE
could wish again for the censorship.
Shot Down Like Rabbits.
1.-THE second massacre at Adana. as l
now learn. was much worse than the
first. It Is reported to have begun April
Is and lasted two days. The Gregorian
School, filled with refugees, was set on
fire. The only outlet from the building
was commanded by hundreds of rifles,
and those who tried to make their es
cape were shot down like rabbits. The
rest Of those in the school, including over
100 wounded from the first massacre,
gathered in the building by Miss Wallis,
were burned to death. Only eight per
sons survived to tell the awful story. 1t
is thought that at least 1900 men. women
and children perished in Adana. The gov
eminent Is now making every effort to
prove the existence OF an Armenian con-
spiracy and with some success, but even
the fact that few hundred foolish young
men had dreams of Armenian independ-
ence will not justify the killing and plum
dering of so many perfectly innocent peo-
ple'
The government has ordered Djeved
Bey, the dismissed governor general Of
Adana, who arrived here few days ago.
to return to Adana for trial by court
martial He Is charged with being re-
sponsible for the disorders.