The Turkish Horrors.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 65, 14 September 1896, Page 2

The Turkish Horrors.

THE BRUTALITIES of THE TURK CONTINUE. MR GLADSTONE and MR ASO.UITH ON THE QUESTION. [Per Pros Association"! CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept, 12. Cruel details are published in connection with deporting Armenians, and tbe Powers have again entered a protest against this brutality on the part of the Turkish Government, Business is completely paralysed. Several foreign doctors have recently examined the Sultan, as the Young Turkish Party allege that he is developing homicidal mania, due to spinal complaint. The Porte's official statement alleges that an Armenian rising in the provinces is expected, and holds the officials answerable for aay raassaero auiA pillage that may ensue. London, September 12. Mr Asquith, who was Home Secretary in the Rosebery administration, says that Britain should refuse further negotiations with the Porte, because tbe latter is a mere instrument in executing criminally insane purposes. He declares that the Powers cannot condone the Sultan's past crimes, and ignore future dangers without sharing in the guilt Mr Gladstone considers the letter of the Powers last year' protesting against outrages, wa9 a great instrument of mischief, insuring impunity for wholesale murder, as the protests were valueless unless backed up by coercion. Mr Gladstone declines to head a crusade against " The Groat Assassin." The continuation of the Armenian outrages has led to a remarkable out burst of feeling on the part of the Tory press, and some newspapers go so far as to demand the abolition of the Obtoruan power. The Standard says diplomacy has proved fruitless, and they should try another Sultan. The Morning Post advises that to raise an agitation on the subject of Turkish brutality will strengthen the Marquis of Salisbury'a hands in demand ing reforms. Sept. 13. The Porte, in its reply to the Powers, denies the ocular testimony of tbe various Embassies regarding the recent riots in Galata and Pera. Lord Rosebery considers that the highest ambition of the Porto is to place Armenia under a new humiliation, and he expects that more will ensue from diplomacy than from public meetings ; but, he adds, if the latter are to succeed, their being of a national character is absolutely essential. The Press Association of Great Britain states that a lady who has recently returned from the scenes of the massacres ot Armenian Christians visited the House I of Commons, and had interviews with Mr Bryce and other members. She states that shortly before she left Ar menia, the Consuls and missionaries cal culated that not less than ft million Hvee of native Christians had been sacrificed as the result of massacres or starvation due to Turkish brutality. The present condition of the people is even worse than when wholesale massacres were more frequent. In many districts there are no male adult Armenians left ahve, whilst their widows and daughters are either starving in thousands or subjected to abominable outrages. In other districts the grown men have been hainetrung, having had the sinews cut at the ankle and above the knee by the Turkish soldiery, bo as to unfit them for work.