The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-29
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- s4ADANA. April 29.--The conditions in
the country surrounding Adana as a
result of the recent Moslem attacks
apon the Christian population are ter
yible. Dead bodies are lying out on the
fields. Numberless Armenian farm
houses have BEEN burned. Conditions
are most ursallitary. The emergency
hospitals established here contain 500
atients suffering from wounds, many
. whom ara women.
There is great and Immediate need
fcr'food and medical supplies. Praeti-
e4lls The entire Armeniun population
OF Adana, 15,o0O people. Is homeless.
without bedding or clothing, and the
foed supplies in the shops are ex-
hausted. Many Armenian girls were
carried off by the TURKS as booty
During the first five days of the dis
orders, while fighting, killing and plum
dering was going on on all sides, the
Vail Of Adana kept the Turkish troops
in government mouse fay and night un-
der orders. On the sixth day he ordered
them to put q stop to the fighting
which could have been done on the first
day
The American missionaries gave shell
terSto many Armenians at the mission )
Immunity was granted for. Armenians
who had taken shelter with the Ameri-
cans upon the condition that they give
up their arms :
William Chambers. an American mis-
sioflary, is caring for 700 refugees in
his house and on his grounds.
Scenes of great brutality occurred in
the neighboring towns of Bagliche, Os-
nlanieh and Hamidieh. In addition To
killing the men the Moslems carried off
the women and children for slaves
SALoNICA, European Turkey. April
2s.--Tfe deposed Sultan Of Turkey.
Abdul Hamid, arrived here late last
right from Constantinople. He was
accompanied by two of his sons and a
suite of seventeen persons. including
eleven women of his harem. They were
escorted quietly to the villa in the
suburbs set aside for their use.
coNsTANTINoPLE. April 2s.--
Eadir PasI1a, the second eunl1ch OF the
palace under the regime Of Abdul
Han1id, was hanged at dawn today on
the Galata bridge, the great thorough
ldI0 Iiidt COulSCtS Ct11ibOua Will thc
quarters of Galata and Pera- The
body was allowed to swing until s
o'clock in the morning, and thousands
Of the people stopped to look at the
great Nubian, whose name was a ter
ror under Abdul Hanid
The dead mans face showed an un-
tiershot jaw, and thick, heavy lips. In
life he had been fully feet inches
tail. Nadir was executed after trial
by court-martial on the charge that he
instisated the nutiny of the troops on
April 49, He was reputed TO be intense
" ambitious, subtle minded and insen-
sible to the sufferings of others. He
was one Of the trio that formed Abdul
Harnid's private cabinet under the old
regime.
Another Assassfnafed.
The other members OF this cabinet
were Izzet Pasha and Fehinl Pasha.
The former. the Sultah's secretary, Is
now In hiding in London. and the latter,
who was head Of the SuTtan's spy sys-
tenn, has been assassinated somewhere
Ia Russia
Nadir Pssha came to the imperial
palace as slave and grew up in that
hothouae of intrigue. Since the depar-
ture Of Izzet Pasha and Fehim Pasha,
Abdul Hannid had relied entirely upon
Nadir. who is regarded as having been
the chief conspirator in the events Of
ADril 1S,