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Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
November
Year
1895
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The later reporta from the sceri?s of the massacres in Armenia ouly make the terrible affairs seem more bloody. There were f uüy koo viotiins at 1 arput (or RharputJ and eig-ht of the 12 buildings belonging to the American missionaries there were sacked and burned in spite of the assurances of the porte to U. S. Ambassador Terrill, that the lives and property of Amer.icaus would be protected and although it was announced that Turkish gendarmes had been detailed to gaard the misMons. The American missionaries, however, eseaped, aud are now iu a place of safety. Mr. Terrell has notitied the porte that the United States will hold it responsible for the lives of the missionaries. The inhabitants around Kharput are in great distress. From Guraa, in the villayet of Sivas, where the Kurds have been beseiging 4,000 Armenins, it reported that all the Armeniaas have been massacred. In the district of Mardin, where tliere is a large Christian population of Chaldean and Syrians, a number of viilages have been burned to the ground, the people are destitute and suffering. Tli is outbreak is regarded there as very significant and as indicating that a systematiccampaign agaiust all Christians, and not against the Armeuian Christians in particular, as has erenerally been believed to be the case. Boston: News of the massacre at and uie devastation of the American mis síod at K har put was received at the room of the American board of foreign inissions coinmissioners and caused the greatest consternaüon, as the Kharput mission was one of the most prosper and successful, and vvasalsoconsidered and most secure from trouble. Kharput is 200 miles southvvestof Erzeroum and about 20 miles east of the Euphrates. The city itself has a larga Turkish population, but the plain vil lages are alraost ettirely Armenian. Fifteen out-stations lie within 10 miles from the city. The limits of the Kharput station embrace a district nearly one-third as large as New England. I ie nrstchurch was formed ia Kharput in 1850, with two raetnbers. Now there are 25 ehurches which have received to membership more than 3,000 persons. The value of the property destroyed is betvveen $75,000 and $100,000. There veere five men and seven women misaionaries froin America at Kharput. Boston: The following1 cable message was received by the American board of foreig-n Missiona from Uev. H. O. Dwight, of Constantinople, by way of Philippopolis: I''ive hundred were killed in Karpuf, eighl of tweivfi mission buildings burned, llvea sparcd. houses stripped. Turks will regard thisas a tesl of the mtcntiou uf the United States to dcfend in I salons. No misslonaiieai anywhsre. Villas;!) everywhere üesolate(l! PeODle uakeil and starving. ustunt help. DwiüHT. .TOO aloro ('hrisl.Wns Murdered. Rome: A dispatch leeeived herefrotn Alexandretta, northeru Syria, savs tliat a massacre of Christians has occurred in tlic vicinity of that town and in the presence of 3üU Turkish soldiera who did not render any assistance. The ctifitiition and slanghter is being extended and a bloody massacre is now reported from Aleppo. It is added thal the European re.sidents of Alexandrctta are in langer. Alexandretta is peopled by about 2,500 persons, prino.ipall y Oréele Christiane and lies on the gulf of the same name on the extreme northern end of the Syrian eoaxt,. 1 ho A:.ihins;iiois Do Nothing. Constan tinople: No dcfinite action is knovvu to have been taken by the ambassadors of the povvers, but it is reported tliat they will join in a note to the porte, to the effect that as the sultan's authority is not suffieient to quell the disturbanees, the powers will occupy jointly various portious of the Tur"kish empire uutil order is fully restored and a bettcr system of government inaugurated. In order to carry out the policy of the powers, the most powerful fleet ever gathered together is being assembled at Salónica bay. Iniilund Wuuts Itrfuruis Delayed. [iondon: The Post hos published au article, evtdently inspired by the foreign ofiice, which is understood to indícate that Lord Salisbury, af ter consultation with Sir l'hillip Currie, Hritish ambassador to Turkey, bas decided that the utmost effort must be made to maintain the intcgrity of the Turkibli empire and, therefore, efforts must, in the first place, be directed to restoring order in the disturbed districts. "All thought of coercing the sultau should be laid aside. lie has already fjiven evidence of a desire to introduce reforms. It cannot be doubted that be wiü defer to the wishes of tiie powera as soon as eircurastanees permit 1; im to do so. The ambassadors of the foreign powers in general, uid Kir l'hilip Curria ia particular, havo aequired a position enabling1 them to ie important support to the Turkihh governtnent at th is critica I time. Sir l'hilip Currie's OBtructions are such as to jnstify him in the execution of reforms ii ii til the aulliority by which they are to be carried out has recovered from teinporary weakness. At the present moment auy naval deujonstratiou in the Turliish waters, undue pressiire on the Turkish govornment, can only help precipítate a crisis from which 'lurkey's friends can hope to yain nething, and her enttmies everything'. " Uylns IVoplo'i A pp 1 Oll.OOÍ) SUruní l.ondon: The füllowing telegram from Constantinople u-as rece i ved by the Anglo-Arinenian association: Por (od's sake Urge the g-overnment to sl(i the mfisl awful events of modern times. The'porte is powerless, as all telegraphs are tindcr the control of the palace ollioials, who have incited the massacre throughout Anatolia. The Armenians are being massacred everywhere in A-.ia iMinor. Over 100,000 are dying of starvation and exposnre. The Sassoun work of relief is closed. The Ashland, Wis., Sulphite Fibra Co.'s immense plant bas burned. Loss SUO.OOO; insurance $40,000.

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