Evening star., 1909-04-30
RELIEF IN asia MINOR
Turkish Troops Save Adana
and Hadjin Missions.
MERSINA FEARS PLAGUE
Water Lacking and Dead Animals
and Garbage Fill Streets.
CORPSES FLOAT DOWN RIVER
Woman Crucified Carried Out to Sea.
New York Clergyman to
Urge Intervention.

BOSTON, April 3o-A cablegram an
nouncing that order had been restored at
Hadjin and Adana in Asia Minor was
received from Rev. w. w. Peet. treas
urer of the American board of commits
sioners for foreign missions at Constan-
tinople, at the American boards head
quarters in this city today.
According to the dispatch all the mis-
sionaries and the mission property are
SAFE
Hadjin Is Relieved.
CONSTANTINOPLE, April 30.-A well
come message has been received from
the town of Hadjin, in the province of
Adana, where five American women mis-
sionar1eS have been alone with thousands
OF refugees who sought safety there from
bands of Moslems seeking to put them to
the sword
Hadjin has withstood a siege for the
past eight days. The missionaries have
oeen sending out frantic appeals for help.
Today a message reached here from
Miss Lambert. the daughter of Bishop
Lambert, timed 1922 a.m., which said:
with the arrival of the troops the dis
orders In and about the city have ceased.
We are all safe and well. LAMBERT.' -
New Governor General.
The Turkish cabinet has taken up the
consideration Of the situation in Adana
and neighboring districts. The new gov
ernor general. Mustafa Zihni. is due now
to arrive at the town of Adana. He Las
been instructed to take the most ener-
getic measures to re-establish order and
to relieve the sufferers.
Adj Bey. permanent under secretary
of state in the ministry of the interior,
says the government will make search
ing investigation into the cause of the
disorders and punish the instigators. Re
ports received at the ministry of the in
terror indicate that quiet now prevails
everywhere.
The secretary said that the government
recognized the necessity of providing
food, medicines and shelter for the suf-
ferers. and had taken steps to provlue
these and inaugurate other measures of
relief.
In reply to a question as to what con-
nection existed between the massacres
Adil Bey replied that that, too. was being
investigated.
Plague Menaces Mersina.
MERSINA, Asiatic Turkey, Thursday.
April 29.-Mersina is under martial law.
The Turkish authorities are maintaining
order.
Sanitary conditions in the city, how
ever, are very bad. There is lack OF
fresh water. eDad animals and garbage
that fill the streets pollute the atmos-
phere.
Eight American and English mission
aries, mostly women, have decided to
leave Mersina for healthier surroundings.
The river that empties into the sea
here still carries down the bodies Of
dead Christians from the scenes Of the
massacres. Among the CHASTITY burdens
Of the stream today was the mutilated
body of woman nailed to a cross.
Twenty-Four Pastors Slain.
MARASH, Asiatic Turkey. April 3d.
The situation here has improved. and the
missionaries are at ease. Surrounding
villages are in ruins.
During the early days of the break
twenty-four Armenian pastors, who were
making their way to attend a meeting Of
the district missionaries. were killed by
the Moslems. They had taken refuge in a
church during a storm.
The tribesmen set the building on fire.
The pastors were shot down as they
came out of the doors.
One of them was Hegenian, who re-
ceived his education at Edinburgh, and
whose recent Imprisonment at Constan-
tinople caused the British government to
protest to Turkey.