Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-04-17
American Missionaries at
Adana Have Not Re-
ported Fear for Them.
MOSLEMS BURN THE
TOWN, KILL PEOPLE
Powers Taking Every Pre-
caution American Vice
Consul Sent to Scene.
Special bv United Press .W!re.

Special bv United Press Wire.
Constantinople, April 17:-Re-
ports from the provinces say $500
people have been slain in Adana and
Mersina and that the massacre is
spreading over all Asia Minor.
The homes of christians in Adana
were burned, fanatic Mohammedans
applying the torch to the villages.
Several American, English and Ger
man residents are said to be among
the victims at Nadana.
Wild reports are numerous and it
will be several days before actual
conditions are learned.
The British consul at Adana and
Major Doughty Wylie, the British
vice consul at Mersina. are reported
as wounded in the rioting at these
places.
General Izzet Fuad, assistant min
lister of war under the new bureau,
was assassinated last night. The
murder is laid to the soldiers who
resented the appointment Of Fuad
by Edhem Pasha.
The Young Turks forces are con-
verging at Tchataldjo, eighteen
miles north of Constantinople. The
leaders declare they will have two
hundred soldiers for an attack
against the capital Priests are pros
elyting among the soldiers, assuring
them that the Moslem faith will be
overthrow IL the Young Turks re-
gain power.
There are practically two capitals
in Turkey today, Constantinople and
Saloncia where Ahmed Ria, head
of the Young Turks, has established
himself
1t is rumored today that Bulgari-
an troops have already crossed the
border ready to seize Macedonia.
A dissolution of parliament by
the Sultan Is imminent today.
The regular district meeting of the
American missionaries was In session
at Adana, and the Rev. DR.. William
N, Chambers and his wife tho Misses
Elizabeth s. and Mary @. Webb Miss
Wallis and Miss Borel, missionaries,
were present there They are now
missing and have not been heard from.
Ambassador Leishman has instructed
the American vice consul at Mersina,
John Debbas, TO go Immediately to
Adana.
Massacres have also occurred at Tar
sus, n town between Adana and Mer-
sina, noted as the birthplace of the
apostle Paul, and many houses there
have been burned
One report says that sixty Armeni-
ans, men, women and children, were
butchered in ono village and that
many houses were looted and burned
Consular kilograms received here re-
port that the British vice consul at
Mcrslna, Major Daughty- Wylie, who
was ordered to Adana when the first
advlees Of the massacre were received,
has been wounded.
The new minister Of marine, Vice
Admiral Adjlemin Pasha, has resigned
owing to the hostility to his appoint
ment shown by the navy. The presi-
dent of the council of state also has
surrendered his office, but OH account
of i'll health.
The minister Of police and other Off
GERS identified with the committee Of
union and progress have either resign
cd or disappeared.
The Albanlans have risen and de-
feated the Turkish troops at Ochrida
and Petch.
A special dispatch from Ristowatz
says that after monster meeting
there the Young Turks telegraphed
the sultan, saying, I'VE are marching
on Constantinople in order to save the
constitution you are trying TO abolish"
Adana is a station OF the American
board of commissioners for foreign
missions, with working force of five
missionaries and thirty-two native
workers, an out station of the synod
of the Reformed Presbyterian church
in North America and Bible depot
and subagency Of the American Bible
society. 1t is a city Of $4,000 people,
mostly Mohammedans.