ARMENIAN QUESTION.
RIOT IN CONSTANTINOPLE. CONFLICT BETWEEN ARMENIANS AND TROOPS. SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE. THE WOUNDED BUTCHERED IN COLD BLOOD. THE SULTAN PANIC-STRICKEN. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.— Constantinople! October 3. The Armenians in the Turkish capital attempted to march to the Grand Vizier's office to present a petition. The patriarch tried to dissuade them without avail, and the Armenians shouting "liberty or death" persisted in their march. Their advance was resisted by officials, and a stubborn fight followed. Major Shervet Bey, aide-de-camp to the Minister of Police, and several guards who tried to bar their way were shot. In the fray that followed, a hundred and fifty people were killed or wounded, principally Armenians. Five hundred were arrested. The Sultan is reported to be in a state of panic. It is alleged that the Turkish troops slaughtered a number of the wounded in cold blood ; also that the Armenians killed two judges in the law Court.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9942, 4 October 1895, Page 5
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