| Show RESTORATION OP ORDER An Important Coiifercnca Held With Flint End in View CONSTANTINOPLE Nov 1 via Sofia Bulgaria Nov 20The six representatives representa-tives of the powers held a conference yesterday to discuss certain supplementary supplement-ary measures which will be recommended to the porte for the restoration of order in Asia Minor and i is understood that some form of common action for the protection of foreigners is pending 7 According to the Turkish accounts the Armenians provoked the disturbance at Marsovan and it is also said that the American missionaries there were not m any way molested Reports leceiveJ here Irom the interior of Asia Minor announce an-nounce fresh conversions of Armenian women and children to Islamism The concentrating of Turkish troops at Maiacli for the advance upon Zeitoom which is tlll held by the Armenians in strong force continues as actively as possible pos-sible under the circumstances The commanding com-manding general declares that unless the Armenians of Zeitoun and its vicinity are subjugated within a fortnight the campaign cam-paign is likely to be both protracted and difficult as heavy snows and bad roads which are to be expected soon will hinder hin-der the operations of the troops Advices from Aleppo say that all the I American citizens o Aintah Orfah and Mardin are safe under the protection of I the Turkish authorities of the places I mentioned The Turks it now appears are really taking steps to protect life and property Armenian refuges who have arrived here from the different provinces from which they fled at the time of the recent massacre have petitioned the patriarch I to assist those of their religionists who were unable to get away a famine Is threatening their country and say that the most terrible sufferings may be anticipated antici-pated when the cold weather set in Thousands of Armenian famiies are without with-out shelter The Armenians ask the patriarch to appeal ap-peal to the different countries of Europe for money food and clothing as it seems next to impossible for the Turkish government gov-ernment to do anything effective in th way of assisting the distressed people There has been some sharp exchange of rvsages recently between the Armenian patriarch the Turkish ministers and the foreign ambassadors The patriarch was desirous of calling in person upon the minister of the interior and other government govern-ment officials for the purpose of placing certain complaints before them and to tender his services in the work of relict and reform But it appears the Turkish officials positively refused to receive him in audience until he shall have published a encyclical condemning the alleged intrigues in-trigues and demands of the Armenians As it has been demonstrated that the Turks in the great majority of cases were to blame for the massacres and a the sultan has agreed t the powers scheme of reforms for Armenia the patriarch was unable to issue such a encyclical for it would practically admit that the demands of the Armenians were not justified just-ified Consequently the patriarch made an appeal ap-peal to the ambassadors and placed before be-fore them the strongest evidence he could procure regarding the massacres which have recently occurred and begged them to use their influence to put an end to this condition of affairs He was assured that everthing possible under the circumstances cir-cumstances would be and was being done but the patriarch was Informed that evidence evi-dence had been furnished which established establish-ed beyond reasonable doubt the facts that the agents of the Armenian revolutionary committee had been actively at work inciting the Armenians against Turkish I rule and the Armenians were themselves to blame for a number of the outbreak i which had occurred although they did not justify the bloody revenge afterward taken by the Turks The police are not making so many arrests ar-rests today and a number of Armenians have been released from the different prisons where they have been confined for some time past The reasons given for their unexpected release is that the police have not been able to find evidence against them which would justify their further incarceration The released prisoners made the most startling statements a to their treatment treat-ment while in custody and tell horrible tales of the filthy and overcrowded condition con-dition of Turkish prisons They say they diton were barely given enough food to keep body and soul together and that they were beaten and otherwise tortured daily in order to compel them to betray what they knew of the organization of the Armenian Ar-menian revolutionary committee But they add all these efforts to make them traitors were In vain Shop Kept Closed WASHINGTON Nov 20The Turkish Turk-ish legation received from the sublime porte the folowing telegram under to I days date A band of agitators formed by the Armenian parson of the village of I Touzhatch this parson had been condemned con-demned to hard labor for life but pardoned par-doned recently attacked and plundered I plun-dered the Mussulman village of Adki pouz The same parson was the cause of the disorders at Beiglikdji and other villages I The Armenian agitator Hamazaspa wounded another Armenian called Ke I york In one of the streets of Bitlis for the reason that the latter tried to convince con-vince his brotherinlaw not to brtherinlaw attack the mosques and not to commit other depredations The rlotres o Gumuchhadjik having murdered Arif Effendi member of the council of administration and having wounded a soldier an affray occurred The authorities took the authorite necessary measures to preserve order Tihe officers of Mardin seized r subversive sub-versive let r written by a Protestant profesor of the city named Khichea broham In that letter the profesor was trying to convince both Kurds and Christians that a socalled Armenian principality was going to be established estab-lished Notwithstanding the advice and assurance as-surance of the local authorities given to the principal Armenians and ecclesiastics eccle-siastics of Marash the rioters continue to keep closed their shops They also killed one Mussulman fired from their houses on the troops and the gen darmes and on peaceful inhabi tnt They also set fire to different Pat of the city The authorities however how-ever succeeded in the mastering fire and restoring order fre |
