Evening star., 1909-05-09

Mount Ararat, that the Rev. Benjamin w.
IabOree and his servant were murdered
q few years ago by fanatical kurds. VINO
some time before had butchered a BRUSH
subject.
Near Tabriz is the headquarters OF the
American West Persian Mission, ana
this mixing of missionaries and oiood-
thirsty kurds. who go together aoout as
well as oil and water, increases the trou-
bes of an American consul. Ihe mis-
sionaries had to look to the British consul
here for protection until lately, when we
transferred our consulate from leheran
to Tabriz Mr.. Doty being one Of their
cloth, of course gets along well with
these American missionaries. but ne mas
had some difficulty in maintaining neu-
trality among mission attaches VINO nave
sympat thized with the Persian revolution
ists-notably Baskerville. the teacher
who was lately killed while making
sortie for food through the ranks OF the
Shah's army.
stretches southwark across the turkish
border to the plains of Mesopotamla. and
lust below this terrtotry lies Bagdad,
where we have a consulate that is now
vacant.
Westward some 400 miles from Tabriz.
across this treacherous kurdistsn' lana
of race hatred and religious fanat1clsm'
the traveller comes upon our consulate at
Harput, which town is the headquarters
of the Protestant and Catholic missions
to the Armenians. Armenia ana hufo's-
tan meet about here.
Anti-Armenian outrages have occurre9
a., +ir,a to time in this district, and
n,r relations with the sultan became
strained to a. critical degree rev sum
1ners back because the TURKISH aulnui
ties forcibly prevented Theo. n. NORTON,
Ir
over to nearby Sassoun and investisalnls
tho massacres there. Mr.. Norton was
transferred to Smyrna and later 10 onein
nitz and the present consul pdck lleIe o.
Harput Is w. w. Masterson, ,,.nr aoln'
LAWYER and country editor or Carroi!ol,
Nv. President Cleveland appointed MN
consul at Alden. Arabia. whence ne re-
tired under Mckinley. TO De sent oa.A M
again by Roosevelt. who transferred MN
to Batum. Russia. and thence TO naipht
last summer. he is Hhdh VI ioi'' eie
and we'll liked.
To wade in the gore foamihs at tne Ied
vortex of the massacres in southern ASA
Minor Edward 1. Nathan. young fhlla
deInhian. only thirty. has just been sent
~ Mersina. where we had no consul dur
ing the April outrages. Mr.. Nathan Is
graduate Of the University of Pennsyiva-
MIA. He is a lawyer and also hngu1st,
having a knowledge of Arabic. modern
creek. Russian. French. German. Spanish
and Italian He was made consul a.
Petras. Greece. when twenty-eight. and
he took a young bride with hlm "hen he
sailed away to that sunny cline.
since the blood of 25.0o0 innocents has
lust been shed in his new district abouL
Mersina, Mr.. Nathan has had to take OH
his coat and work day and night hanohng
relief supplies. 1t was In this district
that the first of this years massacres
broke out. at Adana, during the recent
spring festival in honor OF Mohammed,
and lust between this point and Mersina
were the awful massacre and pillage at
1arsus. Tarsus was the most important
citv In Asia Minor at the time of Christ,
but is best known as the birthplace OF
paul. the apostle. And it was to Tarsus
that Cleopatra took Marc Antony In her
famous gided galley. with the purple
sna was given few weeks Sag, ago to TO- a.
e,er and explorer. who, after touring
Mexico and Central America, rit aontinsg1 hlked
and wrote Through Unknown African
Countries Mr.. Smith was attending
the consular school here in washington
when the trouble broke out in Turkey,
and he could not reach his newly as