THE TURKS AND THE ARMENIANS.
FIGHTING IN CONSTANTINOPLE.
THE BANKS ATTACKED.
DESTRUCTION' OP LIFE AND
PROPERTY.
A VAST ARMENIAN CON-
SPIRACY.
HUNDREDS OF THE RIOTERS BUTCHERED. Press Association.- Klectric —CopyiiftUt.
Constantinople, August 27. The Armenians provoked serious rioting in the Turkish capital, and many persons were killed. The Banks were attacked, and tighting went on all night. Forty rioters held the Ottoman Bank.
The rioting began in Galata, the largest suburb of Constantinople, on the north side of the Golden Horn.
Failing to reach the Palace the Armenians stormed the Ottoman Bank, killing the gendarmes who were guarding it. The object of the riot is not robbery, but of a political character. Many people were killed and numerous shops sacked
Bombs were exploded in Galata and the adjoining suburb, Pera. Hundreds of rioters were arrested before order was restored. French sailors are guarding the French Embassy.
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, the nonastery, and other defendable buildings, and after firing revolvers threw dynamite bombs in the street. The Ottoman Bank was seized at noon and the guard shot, their heads being thrown into the street. Four Turkish ladies passing in a carriage were subjected to dynaraitf outrage.
Hundred of civilians and many soldiers were killed.
A large quantity of stores and bombs were discovered in an Armenian church at Per a and elsewhere.
The Bank was defended for many hours, and ultimately its assailants were conveyed away on board Vincent's yacht, which probably will be expelled the Bosphorus.
The Armenian Patriarch has excommunicated the leader of the trouble.
Berlin. August 28.
A private account received here states that the Turkish soldiery butchered hundreds of the Armenians.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10223, 29 August 1896, Page 5
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