THE CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTS.
The Sultan is great'y concerned «t the refusal of the Embassies to carry out the usual illuminations, and point-" out the bad effect it is likely to have on the troops. The Ambassadors have replied to the effect ♦ hut any rejoicings would be out ot place aftr the recent terrible outrages. The Embasides estimate that in the reoent massacre 6000 Armenians were slanghterd. Horrible dpfc«ils ore given of the jjassacre. In several of the city every mile Armenian was massacred. Forty five women and children who took refuge on the : fl t roof of a houfe were slaughtered, and the bodies thrown ifti the. rt'fl't Nombf-r* of rt'ie'ru were oht'-aged. The Armenian Committee announr-es that it wiil not shrink from any sacrifie of life in order to compel the European Powers to irfrv«ne in tie presett i-truggle, and that. th« throwing of dynamite bombs will cortinue until reforms nt leai-t pqnd to those conceded t> the Cretans are granted.
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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2085, 8 September 1896, Page 2
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162THE CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTS. Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2085, 8 September 1896, Page 2
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