THE SULTAN CALM.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 97, 22 April 1909, Page 4

THE SULTAN CALM.

MASSACRES IN ASIA MINOR.

ADANA A SHAMBLES

(Received April 21, 11.30 n.m ) CONSTANTINOPLE, April 21. Tewfik Pasha is the only counsellor who has received audience at Yildiz. He spent 30 out of the last 48 houra with the Sultan, who, secluded in his favourite pavilion, professes to await the arrival of the constitutionalists* army with benevolence and equanimity. Tewfik Pasha declares that the1Sultan has nothing to lose, gain or tear, since he is the supreme guardian of the Constitution. The Sultanl has ordered not a shot to be firedf against the Committee's forces. Consular telegrams estimate thati 2000 deaths have occurred at Adana1 and 3000 elsewhere in the vilayet,, which is in a state of anarchy. The position at Marash is still precarious, owing to renewed attacks on Armenians.

Advices from Laranaca state tHat 1 the massacre at Adana began in the markets on Wednesday. A Moslem mob, impelled by fanaticism and.desire for loot, killed five Armenians.' The Armenians withdrew to their ownl quarter, and resisted the mobs for 48 hours. Hordes of Moslem villagers arrived, and were supplied with arms: by the, authorities, who affected ta regard them as a military reserve. Women ■ and children were horriblyi mutilated. The town resembles a1 shambles.

Similar scenes were enacted at Tarsus. Four thousand people took refuge in the American college.