The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1895. TURKS AND ARMENIANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 86, 8 October 1895, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1895. TURKS AND ARMENIANS.

Ft is difficult for thp ordinary reader to understand the position of the Turks and the Armenians, or their relations one with the other. At one time the cablegrams teem with accounts of hideous outrages perpetrated on the Armenians by the Turks, and at another there is a reversal of the order of things, and the Armenians vise and slaughter the Turks with equally appalling surroundings. Accepting the statements made as true, the only opinion a reasonable man can form is that one ?s as bad as the other, and therefore they are equally to blame. It is interesting to note that the Berlin correspondent of an influential English newspaper has telegraphed to the effect that " conclusive proofs " have been found on the persons of same Armenian prisoners that England has fostered the rising. The utter improbability of English statesmen being guilty of such a senseless crime suggests itself at once when we remember their strenuous endeavours to arrange, with the help of the other Great Powers, a system of government wnereby the Armenians may be protected and the Turks restrained from encroachment on their private rights and privileges. That is, assuming the Turks to have been the original offenders, an assumption which, as we have already hinted, may be open to reasonable objection and doubt. We can only hope that the Powers wbich have interested themselves in " keeping the peace " in Armenia will not be dragged into a conflict among themselves by the dissemination of rumours calculated to irritate the tender susceptibilities of either the Germans, the French, or the Russians.