The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-17
a0ODY WORK
0F THE TURKS
N ASIA MINOR
7po American Missionaries
Among the Slain at Adana
City in Flames.
cnIDIERS UNABLE TO
CONTROL SITUATION
.,,mRER OF ARMENIANS KILLED
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MEAGRE.
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= Caustantinopies April 16.-Inf0r- =
. NATION received here today from =
: 4dana. iu Asiatic Turkey, declares =
: tbat two American missionaries -
4: have been killed i'm the anti-Ar- =
:msufqn outbreak at that place. =
!. Berlin April ia dispatch re- =
= esiyad today at Mersina from -
. Adaua says that city has been -
3. afame since last Wednesday even -
=. ing and that horrible massaCres -
Z: grs being carried out on the streets. e
4 This Information was conveyed to =
= Berlin iu "a private cablegTam from =
= MeTsina-
q: Nersina. Asiatic Turkey, March =
q: 16-THe massacre of Armenians at -
Z: Adana continues. The troops are =
: nowerless to control the situation, =
= and some of the soldiers are join =
I: ing the pillage of the city. This =
=: information was received here by =
Z: telegraph from Adana this after =
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C1nslautinople. April 16-The Mos
lem fauatcism against the Christians
of Adaua appears to have broken out
a.resh. The Moslem fighting COM
menced yesterday, and continued
throughout the night One report says
that sixty Armeuians lost their lives,
and that many houses have been looted
and burned.
Thor, is NO condemnation of the death
Of the two American missionaries. Their
names are not given in the dispatch re-
ceived here.
The British vice consui at Mersina
has proceeded to Adana.
Outbreak at Adans.
Tbe first news of this Christian
outbreak said the scene was Mersina,
but this was erroneous. The trouble
occurred at Adana, which is about thir-
ty-six miles inland from Mersina- The
carly reports were declared to have
been exaggerated, and messages re-
ceived here yesterday evening said that
only ten Armenians had been killed,
that martial law had been proclaimed
al Adan8. and that reinfOrCeUents Of
troops were being sent in from Beirut.
This late intelligence refers 20 disor-
dsTs that took place after the situation
was supposed to have quoted down
Ambassador Leishman has had so
direct news of the reported killing of
the two American missionaries. He
has instructed the American vice con-
sui at Nersiua. John Debbas, to proceed
Immediately to Adana and report on
The situation. Railroad communication
between AIersina and Adana appears to
be interrupted.
The Bible house is also without direct
information. The missionaries of the
district are at present at Adana for the
regular district meeting. They are Mr..
and Mrs. William Chambers. the Misses
Webb. Miss Wallis and Miss Borel. Mr..
thristy IS at Tarsus.
Mrs. Chambers is q sister of TalcOtt
Williams of the Philadelphia Press.
The government has given assurances
that 1t is doing its best to restore order
az Adana and to protect foreigners, ad-
duonal troops being sent in
Not Confirmed.
At midnight neither Ambassador
Lsisbman nor the British embassy has
received any further news concerning
The massacre or confirmation of the re-
-
SonarIes at Adana
Consular kilograms report that hall
"t the town of Adana has been burned
and that the attack upon the Armenians
is extending into the vilaya. They
say that the British vice consul at MeT-
Sna- Major Daughty- who was
ordered 20 Adana when the first advices
OF the massacre were received. has been
wounded. Communication with the dis
.lroea district is interrupted, however
ana reports received from there must
pa taken with caution
The porte declares the disturbances
are subsIdius. Two additional battal-
IONS have been dispatched to Adana.
Missionary Station.
Adana is a station of the American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
Missionaries and thirty-two native
workers. an oGt-statOn of the synod o.
me Reformed Presbyterian church IL
North America. and a Bible depot anC
>lo-aEency of the American Bible so
gIety.
The American missionaries there, Un
Ger the control of the American boarc
VT foreign missions. are the Rev. vii
I'm Chambers and wife, and tn
NN-5s Webb. two sisters.
Alana is city Of $4,000 people. ant
p lle seat of government of the prov
--.- of the same name. The people ar
'-s-y Mohammedans. but there IS
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