THE TURKISH QUESTION.
MAKING READY FOR WAR.
A TERRIBLE DEATH ROLL
London, September 23. Mr. C. T. Ritchie, President of the Board of Trade, expresses himself highly pleased at the indignant outburst of public feeling in Great Britain with regard to the Armenian atrocities.. Constantinople, September 23. It is reported that the Sultan has arranged for a massacre of Christians if the fleet enter the t traits. Forty-eigiit guns from the heights are ready to bombard Pora. The Turkish warships have been cleared for action. Withinamonth4ooo Armenianshave been massacred in Constantinople, and 1000 are missing. Four thousand escaped by the aid of the Consuls, while 20,000 were deported. Lo don, September 24. Six ships have been ordered to strengthen the British squadron off Lemnos, an island belonging to Turkey. Constantinople, September 24. The Porte, by exhibiting the arms and dynamite discovered in the Armenian quarters here, is inflaming large crowds.
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Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 275, 26 September 1896, Page 5
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150THE TURKISH QUESTION. Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VII, Issue 275, 26 September 1896, Page 5
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