The San Francisco call., 1909-04-30
MOSLEM HORDES
PILLAGE AOANA
Conditions in Stricken District
May Bring Intervention
.of Powers
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are deeply grieved and saddened at this
dreadful event. Some of them are ready
to join us in relief work for the Ar
menians. One bey already has opened
his house to refugees.
The American missionaries allowed
no armed Armenians to enter the mis-
sion premises. During the four days
not a single shot was fired from the
mission buildings. Immunity was Sc
cured for the Armenians who had
taken shelter with the Americans upon
the condition that they would give up
all their arms, and this stipulation was
strictly carried out. The only shots
fired from the mission premises were
by soldiers, who, toward the end of
the five days of lighting, fired from the
mission grounds and the roof of the
Servians' headquarters upon the rioters.
The soldiers explained that this was
partly ITO communicate with the other
soldiers firing from the minarets."
TRY TO BURN SCHOOL
The nuns in a building opposite the
schools saw an Afghan THROWN g
masses Of burning wool soaked in kero-
sene into the grounds OF the American
girls school and at once gave the
alarm. It took the missionaries five
hours of hard work to put out the fire.
1t is probable that the best elements
of Adana viii demand the execution
of the vail. William Chambers, an
American missionary. is caring for 500
refugees in his house and on his
grounds.
one of the most threatening fea-
lures of the situation today is the
garbage and filth in the streets, which
have not been cleaned for a week.
There is not enough water for drink
in ing .Ig purposes Tp fsesd or e dAs the, wounds
The local authorities have recovered
plunder from the looters. but none of it
has been returned to the owners.
Scenes of great brutality occurred in
manieh and Hamidieh. In addition to
killing the men, the Moslems carried
off women and children for slaves.
AhduI's Eunuch Hanged
CoNSTANTINOPLE. April 29.-Na-
dir Pasha, the second eunuch of the
palace, under the regime Of Abdul
Hamid was hanged at dawn today on
the Galata bridge, the great thorough
fare that connects Stamboul with the
quarters of Galata and Pera-
The body was allowed to swing un-
til o'clock in the morning, and thou
sands of the people stopped TO look
at the great Nubian whose name was
terror under Abdul Hamid. The
jaw and thick, heavy lips. In life he
had been fully six feet four inches tall.
Nadir was executed after trial by
court martial on the charge that he
instigated the mutiny-of the troops on
April 13. He was reputed to be in
tensely ambitious, subtle minded and
insensible to the sufferings of others
He was one of the trio that formed
abdul Hands private cabinet under
the old regime. Ghe other members
of this cabinet were IzZet Pasha and
Febim Pasha. The former, the sui
tan's secretary, is now in hiding in
London and the latter, who was head
of the sultan's spy system, has been
assassinated somewhere in Russia.
Nadir Pasha came to the imperial
palace as a slave and grew up in that
hot bed of intrigue. Since the de-
partute of Izzet Pasha and F'ehim
Pasha Abdul Hamid has relied entirely
upon Nadir. who is regarded as having
been the chief conspirator In the events
of the 18th of April
Abdul Reaches Prison
SALONIKI, European Turkey, April
29-The deposed sultan of Turkey
Abdul Hamid arrived here late last
night from Constantinople. He was
accompanied by two of his sons and
suite of II persons, including II