THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume XXIV, Issue 2087, 15 September 1896, Page 3

THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES.

♦—; .-. Tbe Press Association reports under bend, -of London "thnt'the Powers are considering the advisability of deponing , the Saltan, ; Mr Apqoitb. the Home Secretary in the; •Eoßehery Administration, says that Great Britiin should refuse farther negotiations, with the Porte, beonnfe the latter is a mere inttructment executing criminal and insane' purposes. Ho declares that the Powers cannot condone the Saltan's pact crimes and ignore future dangers without sharing in the guilt. ' ■;■■■ Mr Gladstone coneidere the letter of the Powers laf-t year, protesting against outTee:es, was a greet inetructment of miflchief, insuring impunity for wholesale murder, as the protests were valueless unless backed up by coercion. ; Mr Gladstone declines to head ft crusade, against' the great assassin.' Tbe continuation of the Armenian ourrages has led to a remnrk&bte outburst of feeling .ori the part of the Coneervatiye Press, and some go. so far as to demand the abolition of the Ottoman power. The SHaniard eaye diplomacy has proved fruJtleee, end tbey ehoujd try another Sultan, Tbe Mommg Post advises that to raise an agitation oh the subject -will (strengthen the Marquis of Salisbury's bands id demanding refprmp. Gruel details are. published in connection with the, deporting of Armeniane, and tbe Powers have agaio entered a protest againtit this brutja'iiy.. Business ie completely parftlieed. Several foreign doctors have recently examined the' "Snltan, as the 'young Turkey' parly allege that he i« developing bouiicide) maph,. doe to epinal complaipt ",'." . •"" •