The Warwickshire Herald. — 1895-10-17 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

THE CONSTANTINOPLE MASSACRES. The Constantinople correspondent of the Speaker sends some horrible details of the massacre of Armenians in Constantinople. His letter is headed "Government by Murder," and he says: "The evidence is ovetwhelining that the slaughter of Armenians here, which has again lifted the screen from the methods of Turkish administration, was abetted, was constantly participated in, was approved, w. ,s commanded by officials so high in rank that every well-wisher of Turkey is dumb before the revelations. . . . At the Ministry of Police all the clerks and civilians were cleared out on Monday, and the .office coo is were filled with . soldiers. There seems to have been a determination to kill every man known to have had a part in the Armenian demons'ratioe. At all events, certain men were bayoneted instantly arr'val at the Ministry, and without any form of triai. Others were killed with clubs by the police at the Mmistry of Police, and as they were being led from the room where they had been examined to the dungeon where they had been confined. One man thus killed at ths entrance to the dungeon, in the vresence of my informant, the soldiers kept on pounding until his , head was reduced to a jelly. Another poisoner cued out: 'lke is dead. Why beat a dead body? 0, bravo TurkiFli s.,ldiers! If you must beat someone, beat Die. I an: still alive, and it is no shame to beat a living man.' fwo or three men clubed thiyoung man, and he was dr.„ed into the dungeon bleeding from a broad gash in the side of his head. Perhaps he deserved it, for daring to have feelingand to express them at such a tinie. Later in the day, when the policemen in the court of the Ministry got warmed up to their work, they made it a practice to club every poisoner brought in from the street, so that the passage frau the great gate of the Ministry to the door of the receiving room was a mere running of a gauntlet. The man standing on each side of the roadway rained blows from their clubs upon the head and shoulders of the helpless victim. If the man fell under the blows, or had his head broken open, or his arm broken, he was taken at once to the hospital, to be entered on the list of those brought in wounded. One young man, who is a prisoner, tells a frightful story of having been clubbed and thrown for dead upon a pile of !lead in the r0,,11 n, the examining magistrate."  Alderbury Pak, llaorrury, the residence al Mr. and Lady Isabel Larnach, was broken into on Friday morning and a quantity of jewellery was }Wen. The thievei were disturhed in their opentons, and a man was seen leaving the house. Mr. Williams, of Neath, a prosperous . . _  Henry . draper, aged 54, committed suicide on Sunday. H. excused himself from attendiray church by saying be would go for a walk. In the afternoon his body was discovered suspended from a baluster on the second hoor of his shop. He reached trce rope by climbing a high step ladder. After suffering excruciating vain, Giovanni'. Bose, a cook attached to the Austro-Hungarian steamer Timarara,died at the Scamen'A Hospital at Falmouth on Sunday night. According to his statement, while the vessel, laden with coals, was off the Longships, he struck a light in the store-room below, with the result that there was a terrific explosion,and he was forced bodily through a door, falling heavily on the deck. He was shookit•g!v hszj, and presented a terrible spectacle iv:, • ' WM.  The United States Government is taking fresh and energetic steps to prevent filibustering expeditions to Cuba. A steamer has :been seized with ammunition and arms in Florida.  , Affairs in Corea are in a very disturbed state. -Officers of the King's party have taken refuge in the United States Legation, tl4e Queen is reported to have been assassinated, and the United States Marines have been landed at Seoul. Fighting has occurred between) the Pro-Japanese andiAnti-Japauese parties. The horribly-mutilated body of a man, unknown, was found on Saturday on the railway at Chapel, Essex.  THE WARWICKSHIti .