Show adelca frem constantinople dec 2 via sofia bulgaria dec the wark of strengthening the of the dardanelles Darda nelles continues night anil day TIB soldiers are busily at work throwing up freeh defenses and the most busy scenes are witnessed from the entrance of the dardanelles Darda nelles to the other side of gallipoli in addition the entrance to the aea of marmora is being placed in a condition of defense many torpedoed ee have awn both and this work se being will atto vigor so tar as can be judged with the ab of definite news the worst dif tur bance threatened or in progress is in Palestine fresh outbreaks being reported at caesarea and Alk onieh and in the mecca dietric tg it is stated however that all is quiet in the silvas district and a dispatch announces that there is every prospect of persuading the armenian insurgents at to surrender the armenian patriarch here at the request of the representatives of the powers has been doing what he can in this matter the having assured him that the government has riven thu most solemn pledges eliat alie armenians should not be massacred or punished if they surrendered to the authorities the work of equipping the reserves has I 1 een almost suspended al the are still kept at their muttering ing places the turkish authorities eay this is there will be no use of serviced as order is being gradually restored in all the troubled districts un the other hand the ar medians claim that the government cannot equip the reserves owing to the lack of money A GHASTLY SPECTACLE london dec the daily news coi respondent at constantinople says A letter from european at SIar sovan says that on saturday after the maesa ere there was a ghastly spectacle at the edge of the armenian corpses were brought by the wagon load and tossed upon th ground in heaps aside from the rif lii of the bodies by the perpetrators of the slaughter hyena like horde of barbar ans pounced upon these heaps and stripped the dishonored carcases of aliat poor clothing they had leaving them in all degrees of nudity finally about noon a acore of armen ians headed by a priest went under protection of soldier to bury ahe corpses eighty three of them were laid in a sin ate trench probably about a hundred of them were killed of the daily news says a tele arain to the turkish embassy last tuesday says that alie sultan has resolved to break all diplomatic relations it the powers force the dard idelles A dispatch from kome to the dally news says that there is great activity in all the italian arsenals to prepare the whole naval force of the country the cruiser the newest and fastest in the italian bervice eer vice her rheed be injo twenty one knots an boar been ordered to the levant |