The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-05-01
THE UNsPEAKABLE TURK.
lFrom the pa clfc WeekIyl

There is grim and sinister significance in the cablegrams
Turkey which recently been published stating that
many people, doubtless Armenian Christians,
have already been massacred and that hundreds of girls
missing also that rapne and carnage continue unchecked
the land of the Crescent.
who gaan atrocities of 1876 when
many thousands of helpless Bulgarian Christians butch
cred by the ruthless Turks and and children were sub
ected nameess Outrage will realize that the unspeakabe
Turk unbridled passions of the
uderous Bashibaz0uks and that tophak and yataghan
are getting in their deadly work
The ree of blood in the air in the Ottoman Empire and
the cry of "deen deen death to the nfde resounds
through the land
In the awful massacres which preceded the
of 1877, 10000 Bugarans slain, and hundred
villages burned the village of Baa alone, of
5000 inhabitants only 200 escaped with their lives In vivid
description of the Batak McGahan the gifted
correspondent says:
ION approaching the church found bodies lying in heaps
Many skeletons of and children among Them
their long fair hair still adheng the skulls The church
yard piled three deep with dead bodies church
itself it The place filled with putrefyng
corpses The stencil horrible In the village found a
few miserable survivors wang their desolated homes
woman sat moaning three small skulls which lay in
her lap"
these atrocities which shocked civilization and
PEELED Mr. Gladstone advise that the should drv
of Europe bag and baggage They also conferred
the title of "Abdu the Damned" the Sultan Abdul Az
Religious fanacsm is engrained in the Turkish nature
and the of political uprising is sufficient
them to fly at the threats of their Christian feOwcounty
men, Killing infdels a religious duty to the followers
MahOme while to be killed themselves when doing, in
Jehad holy prompt admiance for true belie
the Mussuman paradise bask there in the smiles of
the hOurs who have faces like the full and like
the desert gazele.
When Britain Consannople from being cap.
ured by the Russians 1877 by sending her fee eska
Bay she did political necessity, prevent the Black
being converted into Russian lake and from any
love for the Turks.
Her onclads steamed through the Dardanees ceaed for
action with holding gun anyards ready reply
the Turkish batteries which guard the Straits which
expected to fire the ships at any moment NJ
shot fred however, and the Ottoman Empire saved
from the hug of the Northern Bear
Russia, checked for the by Britain, sought
pansion in Manchuria, only meet defeat and humiliation
later at the hands of the little brown with England sup
porting the banner of the Rising Sun.
i 1t admitted by British Ions ago the Cri
of San Stephano which concluded the RussoTur,ish
Incomplete, inasmuch left Christian peoples
the domination of the Turk.
Al If the Young Turkish party fail in their efforts reform
the Ottoman Government concerted action is likely to be tax
by the Great Powers and England and Russia may be
found cooperating friends not enemies for the purpose
for freeing the Christian provinces of the Ottoman EN-
piTe from the blighting of TurcOman misrule.
Regarding the present relations of Great Britain and Rus
STA in the Far East there be uneasy feeling
the British that the substitution of Japanese Russian
domination in Manchura will be beneficial the wOr
at large and to England in particular Japan pledged
evacuate Manchura and to maintain the open tn
commerce of the world until she is ready
is not acting her promises Like ally Egypt
will remain in Manchuria until to quit Their
) the parallel ends.
n c. f. MAXWELL.
e 26 Punchbowl and Queen H. Lliha and Vineyard