Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-08
ALL But TURKS
FEAR TO RETURN
TOTHEIR HOMES
ADANA DEM0RALIZED, BUT ALL
AMERICANS SAFE
MISSIONARY SCHOOLS ARE PRO-
TEcTED BY MAcEDoNIANs
Armenians, Terrorized by Recent Out
RACES, Leave Vast Grain Crops to
Rot in Field-Situatlon
improves Slowly


A DANA, Asiatic Turkey, May g.,
q Wednesday (via Constantinople,
"A May O.-Macedonian soldiers sent
here by the authorities are today faith
fully guarding the American schools
and mission residences, but otherwise
the city is demolarized.
The grain upon the Adana plain is
ripe for the harvest, but no Armenian
refugees dare go back to their farms,
as the surrounding country is still dan
gerous for any man not a Turk.
The relief work is being carried on
systematically at Adana. Special
camps have been esta ablished for per-
such as typhoid fever and smallpox. 1t
is costing $1250 a day to run these
places.
The news of the accession to the
throne of Turkey of Mehemmed ",
which reached here yesterday, was the
reasoi for wierd and wild rejoicing.
The demonstration began with the
firing of cannon from the barracks.
and there was general shooting in the
air from all parts of the city for more
than an hour.
Some fanatics thought this would be
good time to renew the attacks on
Armenians and complete their exter-
mination, and at once began to raise
mob.
The Turkish officers worked hard to
stop this movement and by bugle calls
and rapid patrols they succeeded in
turning the excited evoutions of the
people into a harmless celebration.
There is inconsiderable disturbance
in the district surrounding Constantly
nople and brigandage is being carried
on in the very suburbs of the capital,
This condition of affairs is a result of
the rapid changes in government and
probably can be laid to the doors of
deserters from the former Constanti-
nople garrison and political fugitlves
who have undertaken to live on the
country.
Americans Are Warned
A party of American tourists driv-
ing at 5 O'clock yesterday afternoon
outside of Pera was warned by ma
tive that it was unsafe to go any fur
ther, as beyond was group of BAN
dts.
The American cruiser North Carolina
left here (Gibraltar) today for Alex
andretta. The Montana is still coal
Carolina this afternoon. These two
vessels are on their way to Turkish
waters for the protection of American
interests.
An investigator who has just ar
rived at Beirut from a trip to Kessab
reported there that all the American
property at that place has been been
completely destroyed by the moslem
raiders. The American property there
consisted of a girls high school under
the direction of Miss Effie N. Cham
bers.
Three-quarters of the native houses
at Beirut also have been destroyed,
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Protestant school building are stand
ing. Almost all of the people who fled
from Kessab have returned to find their
houses looted. They are absolutely
destitute. -
Some food and clothing are being dis
tributed, but there is no system in the
work and the supplies are inadequate.
One band of Turkish reserves have re-
turned to Beirut, but as they took part
in the rioting and killing there the
people cannot trust them. The protec-
tion afforded is in no sense sufficient.
The situation at Deurtyul, on the coast
north of Kessab, still is critical.
That the casualties at Kessab We're
not greater is due to the fact that
many women and children left the town
the night before it's destruction and
found defuge in the surrounding coun-
try or in the Celaduran valley.
The men of KesSab remained behind
to fight. At the conclusion of the fight
ing the Armenian men who were still
alive drew off to the mountains, leav-
ing the old and sick behind.