Show MORE MURDERS ANTICIPATED I A Letter Tells of Threatened Wholesale Massacres WE MAY ALL BE KILLED THEY lAfRB WTLUXGc TO DIE I IT IS GODS WILL Missionaries at Mnrsovan Are All Safe BeInG Guarded By Troops One Thousand Persona Hacked to Pieces in One Afternoon Tnrkisli Government Has Given the Soldiers Sol-diers the lUsrlit to Plllase An Armenian Relief aNEW a-NEW YORK Dec 18 Selema Du Ghan an Arabian of Brooklyn has just received a letter from his sister In Jerusalem telling of a threatened wholesale massacre in that place by the Turkish government The letter saysIf England goes to war with Tur key Christians here will be murdered by the Mohammedans America Is tho best place in the world but we cannot go there mow as it is too late We may all be killed in a few weeks We are willing to die though for Gods holy will I am glad you are safe in America Amer-ica Take care and dont come back here as you will surely be killed Mr Wallace the American consul will soon start for the United States and he would gladly take some of us along if he only dared I we at tempted to move from here the Turks would become suspicious and kill us Mr Du Ghan frequently takes parties on expeditions through the Holy Land and Egypt He has become an Amer ican citizen and for this reason fears he ray lose his life if he returns to his native country He ha been In America at intervals amounting in all to a period of sixteen years He was born In Ramath Gilead and when 4 years old his parents moved to Jerusalem salem He was educated at Mount Zion in one of the English schools He took a party through Palestine a few years ago Mr Du Ghan declared last night that he would take a party of American Amer-ican tourists to the Holy Land the first week in January despite the fact that his life may be ira danger Just n Thousand CONSTANTINOPLE Dec 18 Replying Re-plying to a telegraphic message from United States Minister Terrell the missionaries at Marsovan telegraphed yesterday that they were all safeguarded safe-guarded by troops A letter dated December 2 has been received here from an American missionary mis-sionary at Caesarea giving harrowing details of the horrors of the previous three days The writer says the Turks swarmed into the houses stoning clubbing club-bing and killing every Armenian within with-in reach The American mission was not harmed evidently owing to orders issued by the Turkish officials but the missionary continues the barbarity practiced passes all description The victims were literally hacked to pieces and a thousand persons were killed on the afternoon of November 30 The missionary says the Turkish soldiers confessed that the government gave them permission t pillage V Probably n Fraud CHICAGO Dec IS Benoni Tekirian a prominent Armenian of this city has received a telegram from a leading lead-ing Armenian of Indianapolis saying a young man claiming to be an Armenian Armen-ian is there delivering addresses and collecting money in behalf of the Armenian colectng menian cause and inquiring whether he is authorized to do so President T B Khunglan of the Chicago branch of the Armenian Union desires the Associated Press to say for him that nO authority has been given for such collections and that all funds for that purpose should be sent to Miss Clara Barton president of the Red Cross society at Washington or to Spencer Trask treasurer of the Armenian Ar-menian relief fund committee No 27 Pine street New York city |