TERRORISING THE TURK.
THE ARMENIANS COMMIT OUTRAGES. CIVILIANS AND SOLDIERS KILLED. Constantinople, August 28. The Porte declares that the Armenian Committee organised on a vast scale, and with wonderful secrecy, a programme of disorder to terrorise the city. The rioters seized the banks, monastery, and other defendable buildings, and after firing revolvers threw dynamite bombs into the streets. The Ottoman Bank was seized at noon and the guards shot, their heads being thrown into the street. Four Turkish ladies passing in a carriage were subjected to a dynamite
outrage
Hundreds of civilian-' and many soldiers were killed.
A large quantity of atones and bombs were discovered in an Armenian church at Pera and elsewhere. The bank was defended for many hours, and ultimately its assailants were conveyed away on Mr Vincent's yacht, which will probably be expelled from the Bosphorous. The Armenian Patriarch has excommunicated the leader of the trouble. Berlin, August- 28. Private accounts received her state that the Turkish soldiery butchered hundreds of Armenians in the riots at Constantinople.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 107, 29 August 1896, Page 3
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