Show ACCOUNT OF THE ciapi the it them washington dec 4 the turkish legation has received the sublime porte a report of the armenian trouble et ond signed by the civil end military officials the almae and notables ol 01 the villaret villa yet greek orthodox and catholic in part it h as follows gen bahri pasha axvall 0 barf who spent several days at ond in returning from van and baldi pasha commander of the bedits red its at in company with gizi fiarn the persian consul at ond hadji otner Eti endi the director of 1 posts and telegraphs and suleiman bey the commander of the mounted police of the vil deyet were crossing on wednesday the ad of october 1895 at 0 10 the afternoon the estreet when a certain armenian named arine nak a servant in ahr employ of the armenian bishop of ond and who aas suspected of with alie revolutionary committees and an other armenian bred on them several times with revolver wounding barl the leg and hadji kaeha tn the foot Arro enak nd hie accomplice were immediately arrested arr eted two days latr lat r on the toll wing friday at about 9 at night several belonging to the trade union were fired upon by a certain Hatch kik a son of a barb named ste pane who was bibi R bought by the police boing incriminated in the attack on the two lashae who happened happe aed to be passing in a neighboring estreet beard alie chote and turned into the estreet from which came abe nois but being seen by bo was hot population OCT thia second incident following 10 closely upon the first great excitement cit ement and at the gounde of the shota the population in the neighboring neigh borine tera precipitated itself in alie streets bome carrying arias and somo on armed A rumor having been circulated to the ct that the armenian had gone to the government houses and assassinated the vali tho populace immediately in arched in that direction from which arose a great contusion and blocking of the adjoining streeta Bt reeta Howe civil and military authorities and also the and agenda of the police assisted bv the prominent citizens of the city finally succeeded in calming the men and dispersing the crowd they explained eliat the almeniana Arme niana had done not liing the repetition of the chote by thear benian conspirators and the non arrest of one of their number and of his accomplice had the effect of keeping up public agitation on the other hand the lack of confidence in the authorities and in the poon lation which wag exhibited by the ano no longer their shop rily greatly accentuated the ex ittin feeling excitement these two incidents having been followed by the BOWS of the riots constantinople stantin ople brought about by bome armenian vagabonds the public excitement became greater alian ever every one became alarmed and the armenian began to walk around armed to alie teeth and not to open their tores As since alie day on ft aich the first incident occurred the of neighboring villages bad commenced to in the city alie governor general wishing to prevent if possible bloody riots proceeded on alie morning of tuesday the ath of october accompanied by the president of the municipality to the market equale and there fijn one of the principal eloree assembled 1 number of prominent citizens both and they were asked not to cause trouble and tobe lp quiet the people it wag precisely at this moment however that eliote were heard in the direction of the charies Ch ariks quarters it was then about 10 owing to the contusion it was impo gible to determine on which tide the brawl began in truth it seemed th atthe the imperial troops the agents of the police and the faha endeavored to suppress the riot the greater became the audacity of the armenians Armen ians I 1 it was from their hops and bazaars from the windows of their upper stories end indeed from anywhere and every I 1 where eliat they fired at random on soldiers police irea and citizen alike the vali proceeded at once to the acene notwithstanding bis presence the ing continued directed against the cera of the regular army and the zap tires who stationed before the shops i exhorted the rioters to drop their arms and place themselves under the krotec tion of the authorities who would know how to defend them indeed they did not even respect the person of the governor at whom they fired at eight of one soldier and one or two wounded and two others who were already dead the agitation of alie mans and greeks who had joined the brawl reached he climax it wasa before with great trouble they could reestablish order corpses lying in the streets and in alie shops were taken that night to alie ed and tho wounded were conveyed to their homes or to the hospitals after the riot was put down the armenian who bad remained shut up in the houses and stores we deprived of their guns until the calm should be entirely were lodged in alie edifice of the civil and military authorities those individuals and families who deprived of means of support were cared for in some bouses end received bread and whatever was necessary for them when order was finally restored the old offenders and the others regained their own firearms now IT WAS after the complete suppression of alio troubles an elaborate inquest was held to discover alie of the first shots it was discovered that on the morning of tuesday the ath day of october the day of the not that several rioters were expected from constantinople stantin ople by the austrian steamer an unusual assembling of armenians having taken place near the warf popular curiosity was excited among the letters distributed was one addressed to certain of Erz indian who lived at the nan immediately opposite the town hall which is situated on square the letter contained details of the trouble at constantinople end announced the death of the brother of the person it was addressed to this the moment he had read the letter person placed himself at the window of hi room and commenced to fire wildly on all the by contending that it was thus that one should act under euch circumstances immediately afterwards four or five shots were fired from the stores of pi ra dourian opposite the an and under the town hail there shots were followed by others fired by the armenians assembled at the landing it was thus that the crowd which found itself in me square aej the adjoining streets were obliged to respond rec pond the fact that bome of there who during atie rhote from the window of armenian houses ere inhabitants of borine village who had only come to town that morning and that the first shots were indeed fired by them that simultaneously with the commencement of the riot the shops had been closed that abo armenians had knowledge of all these facts and the officers of the army and t of the zap tires who exhorted them to submission and the laying down of their arms were greeted by shots and also all that has been stated here above proves conclusively that the rioter bad intended to cause great slaughter throughout the country it ie worthy of remark holew that the above arte who wm the elret hot was fired notwithstanding that he was proved to be affiliated with the revolutionary committee and wag also proved guilty of several crimea profited by the amnesty graciously accorded by his imperial majesty the sultan as did also the who were among the most |