TURKISH AFFAIRS.

Waikato Argus, Volume I, Issue 30, 17 September 1896, Page 2

TURKISH AFFAIRS.

London, September 11. Loud Rosebery, alluding to Iho Armenian question, said that tbeBritish people were indignant beyond \gt expression, aud the feeling was aggravated by their sense of impotence.

The Powers are mainly blamed for their inaction.

The ex-Premier hoped the Czar would exercise his boundless power in the cause of wcll-doiug. Numbers of the clergy, both in London and the provinces, preached yesterday on this topic. At St. Paul's, prayers were offered for the Christians left in the City of Doom.

The agitation is growing fa.'t. The Times warns its readers against the danger of provoking a war. The Chronicle boldly says that unless the Powers depose the Sultuu England must.

The Standard thinks the Powers ought to exercise, their veto on the new Sultan's choice of Ministers. The rumours of Eastern troubles are having a disturbing effect on the Exchange, and Consols have fullen to £10 ( J 12s Gd. Colonial stocks are not affected.

Paris, September 12

Several members of the Chamber of Deputies have prot'stod against the platonic character of M. Honotaux's policy towards Turkey. Constantinople, September 14. In defiance of the evidence adduced by the Embassies, the special tribunal set up to investigate the recent outrages acquits the gendarmes of murder.

The police are warning the Armenians that they remain in Constantinople at their peril.