The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-07

OF Armenians have been massacred'
| has been relieved as q result OF the
presence and exsrtions OF the captain
Of the British battieship Triumph and
| the British consul AZ Alexandretta- who
went DOWN the coast on board the Tri-
The two ofnciais visited caiadoran
ana Kessab, ana found these towns m
deacribabie charnel houses. There are
more than 1000 helpless ana destitute
women In village on the seacoast
| near Kessab.
Twenfy-three Thcusand Killed.
Adana, Aaiatic Turkey. Wednesday.
April 7s, via constantinople. May a.
Rev stephen d. Trownriugs. = lac
sionary OF the American board OF com
| tninsinuers for foreign nissioHs. eeu
| .ates the number Of Armenians kihes'
Province = q tdana since the oui
break OF the anfi-Christian rfoting. at
/ $4,000 The missionary said today:
"A conservative estimate Of the
Christians killed In the witty of Adana
is s.ooe. This calculation is made up
= atEer officials who give permits for
sNot fewer than 10000 persisted in
| the towns ana villages OF the provinces.
This figure Is based on the full In
formation sent forward by the British
consul
"The Surviving Armenians in the en-
/ tire province are largely women and
children. They amount to about $4,000
souls and are today without homes,
shops, tools, eiothing or bread. A most
pitiabIe and wretehed multitude is
passing up and own the streets Of
Adana like lost people. They throns
| the big factory yards. where q dole Of
/ aour Is given out by the relief COM
/ mittee Crowds Of broken hearted wo-
men and children are coming In from
| the country 70 even greater misery In
| the city"
Mr.. Trowbridge has written q fur
| Their account Of the events at Adana-
4 especiai with referenee TO the Rtti-
l fufse III Khe Turk fsh aafhorities
In this recital he says:
1--WE understand from consular teie-
| grams. that the sublime ports assured
the ambassadors at Constantinopie
| that slight outbreak had occurred Al
| AdAna with about nifty casualties and
! the burning Of a few houses: and the
| porte declared further that the ASnerf-
1 cans here were amply protected.
| I'VE DO not know the exact origin OF
| the struggle. ! say struggle. because
| sense that the Armenians died with
| out resisting. They fought Desperate
| ly in self defense. and the fury of the
/ Turks Increased in proportion as the
| Armenians succeeded in staying Mo-
| hammedanB. For two days preceding
| the outbreak there had been bitter
/ feud between Moslens and Christians
In one vineyard shooting was begun
| and hatred was aroused on April IL
| -. f.. xryIa. hnA AAA hAa tsaVN
shot one OF his opponents dead and
wounded two others This man es-
capped 10 Mersina and took passage on
a vessel
"The Turks in Adana then assumed
\ a menacing attitude, which greatly
alarmed the Armenians. The body Of
a Mosiem killed in the streets was pur,
| posely dragged to an open square and
| left there exposed by the Turks as a
| fanaticRl challenge.
"A rumor spread among the Aruaen-
] fans on April IL that rnassacreing BY
the Turks already had been begun. and
as. q demonstration of self defense a
yolley of shots was fired from the roofs
| OF Christian houses This is turn waa
interpreted in the Moslem quarters a.
an attack and the word spread like
| wildfre that the Armenians were IN
revolt and must be crushed.
Subsequent events have shown
| clearly that the Adana government &C.
| quiesced, II 1t did not actually partici-
pate, in the cruel and indiscriminate
| attacks made with lre and rife and
sword upon the entire Armenian col
ony, including our protestant congre-
| CATION which. as body, has been
| wholly loyal TO the government. Two
| Christian prisoners who escaped from
| government headquarters declared that
| horsemen came In at intervals from
| outlying towns and villages and RAJ
ported TO the military authorities a.
follows:
Put To sword.
Hamidieh is finished' or 'Osminiet
is finished" meaning OF course. thai
the Armenian populations of thess
places had been put to the sword. The
| military officers received this informa.
tion as matter of course.
The further occupation of NOLAN.
medan minarets by regular soldiers
hogan shortly after noon of April il
at the very outset of the struggle
These soldiers kept up a cruel fusil.
iade into all parts OF the Christian
papapets of the minarets. There
were no patrols of soldiers or police
all day Wednesday. the 14th. none on
| Thursday and none even on FRIDAY
at the real crisis. when a Masfam
mob filled the streets from here to the
river. surging against the walls OF
the girls school. The government
furnished US no protection whatever
Continuing, Mr.. Trowbridge related
how he reached the governor of Ad.
ana by a dash across the city CORY.
ing the Turkish bag and accompani-
ed by two Turks.
THE governor was running about
in dismay" Mr.. Trowbrldge said, land
could scarcely give q coherent answer
TO my questions ami demands.
told him of the murder Of Henry
Maurer and d. M. Rogers, American
missonares He turned pale at my
statement, although he must alreadJ
have head Of the killings. His an.
swers were, I cannot be responsible.
To this I replied; You must be re.
sponsible; we have no other force e
rely on except the government Yor
have completely abandoned us
through this crisis
THE governor was so alarmed AND
confused that It was clear that he hnG
no mastery OF the situation. Prison
eEs and solliers. common Turks, wer,
running in and out OF the governors
| audience chamber. The governor nm.
ally conferred with his commandment
who ordered $50 troops under osmar