Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 10 September 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

Further details of the recent massacres at Constantinople, of an appalling character, have been received from private sources. Seven hundred Armenians took refuge in the Customhouse. The mob threatened to set fire to the building, and eventually murdered the whole of tbe refugees, soldiers ' helping them. Another band of 300 Armenians was butchered, and thrown into the ; sea. j The police pointed out the houses of Armenians to the mob, who then pillaged them, and slaughtered or outraged tbe inmates, deolaring ' tbat the Sultan had authorised a three day*' slaughter. The Embassies demand an enquiry, j The Embassies have declined to discus . the reply of the Porte in which the Sultan solely blames the | Atrn?itians for the recent disturbances. Two Arab editors in Cairo have been sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment on a eh . rgft of comment- | ing on H er M.«j»- Hy Queen Victoria 1 in insulting language,

Senor Canovas del Castillo, Prime Minister, is asking ior an unlimited war credit to carry on operations in Cuba. Marshal Blanco, Spanish Governor General, has proclaimed martial law in the Phillipine Islands, and imprisoned 200 leaders of the agitation going on there. A portion of the war credit asked for by Senor Canovas, Prime Minister, is for repressing the agitation in the Phillipine Islands. German residents are said to be implicated in the rising.