Miscellaneous.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10465, 21 November 1896, Page 5

Miscellaneous.

THE MOTS AND MABSACI IN CONSTANTINOPLE. The origin of the riots in Constan xiple has not been satisfactorily plained, T nß faot (says an Engl journal of September 4) that the. t wen five men who broke into the Otton Bank escaped whilst a thirty hot butchery of innocent Armenians by armed mob followed in the streets of I wity, has lent colour that the wh •affair was a piece of Turkish intrijri The riots, aooording to one veraic hegm in this way:— On "Wedneßd "(Aoßnst, 26) thirty members of an J SDenian revolutionary society, whiob. h resolved upon a ' demonstration ' to for the Powers to press on the refon promised by the Sultan, obtained e tranoe to the Ottoman Bank. Atagi'vi elgnsl they exploded bombs and fin revolvers, frightening the employes, oi of the building, in whloh tho invade •fterwards barricaded themselves, r. solving not to leave;iatji thei? demanc for reform were oompHed with. Si Sdgar Vinoer/t, the dlreotor of the banl «M»pedb5 r the roof, and prooeededt xudiz Eiosk, where he had an intervlei ■w«b. the Sultan. Meanwhile ,the feai •Iders holding the bank, who were sai to be members oi the Armenian Revolt tionary Committee, communicated thei deaire to surreader upon, certain terms BirE. Vincent returned to the bank •aiheld a parley with them, which re salted in the revolutionists being takei Jo the director's yacht, with a view ti their removal from Turkish territory •Of tho twenty.five revolutionaries, fivi ware -killed and flva more were wounded When they finally quitted the ban' they left behind them seventeen kiloi ■of dyasmite, eighty-seven bombs, and a qpaatity of cartridges. The fifteen mirtoots have sailed for Marseilles. AI •as news of the attempt oa the bank the streets of Oonatantiople filled #ith Moby of armed Tnrks, who slettr all Ar. fflenian and other refagaes that they could lay their hands on. All night the toassaore went on, and the killed are es* ■ timated by thoasands, odo oye-witqess stating that late in tho afternoon he saw ms. large tasnuro waggons filled with sorpges ia one Btreet alone. It is averred that the police, instead of at*eapting v to preserve order, distributed weapons to the Moslem mobs, and af terWatds' assisted in tho work of murder «nd pillage, while the 'troops were ■quietly withdrawn without any attempt 'being made on their part to quell the savage tumult. The latest telegrams State that the city is now quiet. New and terrible details are forthvoming daily of the massacres last week. The number of viotlma is now estimated at about 5000 and in some distriots of Constantinople scarcely s single mala Armenian escaped the fury of the mob, while in one house forty-five women and children who 'had taken rofnge on the tool were all murdered and their bodies thrown into tho street. The arrests oF •one hundreds of Mohamedanß reported onSandsy are understood to be oonnebted with the agitation of the ' Youns Turkey 'party. Some terrible particulars of what took plaoa on the Wednesday are furnished by the Constantinople correspondent oE the Berliner Taqeblatt, a wan hitherto known, says the Daily Ifem, for his extreme Turcopbil attitude. flo fays : ',1 saw thousands of Turkish Ismale running through the streets bent ©a murder.-- Thirty, forty at a time I •aw croaohing «t street corners armed with dubs and cudgels in order to catch one single Armenian and to fell him down with cruelty such as one would not kill a mad dbg with. Before my eyes an Armenian prieat was beaten imto a shapeless mass with wooden sticks by a horde of these savages. I •aw the policeman stand close by and •mile. I saw a patrol of cavalry keep guard near the place to make sure that no help should be rendered tho un» iorfonate maa.' Here is another inietdent 'Of 'the massacre : ' Young Turkish boys went round putting their knives into the bodies of the dead.'