Show THE FASTER H QUESTION P reports of m or the Let leihardt barmy or of the power powers Bu constantinople dec 14 vilt via kofl bulgaria dec 15 the french guard guari ea ship faucon hs has arrived here hero in devord ord ance with the miwon granted by the muffin upon the demand of the power and f has joined the english eun gun boat dryad the italian war vessel archimede aid and ai d the austi austrian ian gun boat Se benico ich arrived durine during the week the secondary effect effects ol 01 the outrage perpetrated upon armenians in the tile months past are seen peen in the advisee now being received from anatolia which dwelt upon the terrible e distress diet reea existing 9 everywhere A thousand fugitives have taken refuge in black sea ports where they remain in a deplorable condition the kurds continue to pillage the armenian villas vil lagee without opposition from the inhabitants or from the au an 18 durine during the last lew few weeks iw villages have been backed sacked and seventy men killed the village villages of 0 beral seral Bohac Bollack kessen essen and the armenian district let of have aea been laid waste the tile village of lamas ard has been raided aided four our times in one week the authorities make no attempt whatever to put a at stop I 1 0 to the kurdish raid raids or to punish t the lf perpetrators perpetrator a of them it Is i feared that the inhabitants inh abitanta of n bumbera abera ot of villages who have fled through fear of a second outrage and have taken refuge at inaccessible poin pointe in the mountain mountains will perish during the severe weather of the winter which ie Is now coming the armenian armenians are held in la a state of utter despair over their situation the massacre of almeniana Arme Armen niana lans in kai kal airich and tala lasted for three day days all kind kinds of excesses are per perpetrated petrag upon the inhabitant inhabitants many women oman and girle girls being outraged by the gene gens darmes as well ae as the burds kurds it has previously been alleged that the kurd kuhs alone were responsible for thie this species of out outrage raire being beyond the control of the authorities the scenes which are daily enacted are too horrible bor to allow of de eption iscrupe the survivors of these massacres ar compelled either to adopt islam orb or be killed the ambassadors of the powers here are finding th enst t itis it ie useless to direct communications to the porte anthis on this subject subject as the enitan forte la a convinced that tha t the e european concert to s a mere feint although the immediate cause of the recent widespread wide spread panic here was the quarrel between two Armen armenian ians it now s appears pears that a wholesale attack upon a all t FI the armenians Arme niane in the city looking to their extermination was really projected on that day the attack waa was to go commence M at 11 in the morning but the plan wae was frustrated by the elate state ot of alarm marm created by the quarrel between two armenians Armen ians which served as IL warning to the armenians in the ca city ty and caused them to take refuge in their bouses houses London Dec 16 the daily news ha hae a a dispatch from constantinople dated december ath which says news ie is daily received here of thousands of ar medians who are offered the choice between balem or death at harach an armenian who waa was ordained an in anglican clergyman refused the choice an and wa was killed by slow torture at harput two protestants preached and were murdered for the same cause at achem fifty my two person persona died as a martyrs for their religion at azoon a large number of armeni ans were captured and led to a neighboring turkish village where they were ordered to chance their faith fifty of them leaped into the euphrates and were drowned the turks shooting them while they were in the water thie this day the british vice consul at t van describes the condition of ar medians as being too tho appalling for words chousa thousands n do of women and children landerl wandering n g through the now snow piled streets without shelter or food and barefoot bare toot their ravie here having only left a chemise and some of them only a to coyer their nakedness an eye witness to the barbarities of the massacre at Kai earich karich on november saya says that men and women were ere literally hacked backed to pieces to ito the number of several hundred some of the turks say bay a thousand were killed saturday afternoon a thousand fierce fellow came seame from the villages vill agea to the city many women were rb ducted the troops could have squelched the it if they bad had de ired to do go the armenians of kassarich fai Kai were always quiet and law abiding all this information Is in the hands bands of if the ambassadors with names and dates the tragedy is approaching an end at the lik yesterday the sultans secretary informed europeans that the committed a horrible outrage that they had descended en maese names e from the bills had burned the moslem village of martia and killed every inhabitant this is A foul lie invented by izzet bey the clever ar arabic able scoundrel who now rules the sultan and em empire I 1 re he ile maintains his life power by pa pandering n alering to 0 the sul eul sultane tan tane a thirst rot for armenian blood eve everybody bod ly is aware that ze toun was su surrounded brou trou 3 d d by troops and bachl bachl ba bazoukas zollos and that euch such a sortie was wiLs impossible the object of the falsehood ie is to alienate sympathy from the Armen armenian ians this means that the doom of the lis Is sealed the sultan meano to seize an exeme to order their extermination on thursday morning mori fang a demonstration by sofas aga against dinst th palace was arranged but wa was frustrated by numerous arrest arrests it ie Is reported arted that fresh massacres occurred at kassarich Kai earich yes yesterday berday but thi this is not confirmed london dec 16 the daily news liberal commenting on the announcement that lord salisbury has declined at present in the public interest to receive a deputation in behalf of the atme men medians niane ians aya this must mean that the Eur european opeal concert exists only in in name and nat that the tile powers are not pre pro dared pared to cooperate in the that deposition of the sultan or in enforcing europen european control russia ie is the power most closely interested and she can count upon the support OF of france if this be so the situation it nation is more serious than th anever ev er 15 letters at hand fro from M gor correspond respondents ente at it karac it eastern tur key a detailed accod account nt of of cenea and incidents attending the reco recent tit mas mae macre of armenian armenians there as well ae as ol 01 the massacre itself athe the first excitement aye PAYS the writer over turkish atrocities were wele dying out and tranquility was pretty well restored when the derbini kurds burds b a wl n t to 0 plunder the villages right and I 1 left it six ol 01 which were in the immediate ini vicinity of Khar put the whole city waa toggled with expect expectation petion and nd we were ex expecting an attack some laid the kurd kurds h had ad government other others that the tile turks in the city were with them I 1 the rhe kurda kurds while in league plundering sundering the villages 68 war heard 11 0 to the to harput me iv we ere are i going say turks in the city aid j The Thel Kurd Curds are coming cooling litre to plu plunder cider the christian chr atlan when appealed to one abhat arter quarter ou so to use for the defense of the cuy city maid 11 S ar wh ab should let them we be killed protect tb the the governor of Uti latia telegraphed here hat 2000 kurde Kurd shad had come the there reano hat he could not come with ith them thai threw the y upon the kar put government the men of went to the governor and asked for protection they ere treated A with ith contempt these disturbances could not have happened it if strong order orders hail had been sent to the governor jie vernor ne nerola to pre predie ferse order at any rost tho terror and distress dist reea in the devastated villages can scarcely arcely ec he be pictured e ho nith ith their lives have ben been stripped ripped et ci ot everything elee else with winter juat just at their doore doors where the kurda have alone devastated the lore lose of life ie is not great the kurde kurds plunder but do not generally kill unless resisted the idea of en an uprising among the A menials js ie is absurd they are in terror of their livee lives they are prepared to surrender all their pedee siona it only their livee lives can be spared |