TURKISH AFFAIRS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10708, 3 September 1896, Page 2

TURKISH AFFAIRS.

• OUTRAGES ON AMERICAN ' citizens. THE CRETANS SATISFIED. [PER PRESS ASBOCIATIOK.] Washington, September h— -America is sanding representatives to Turkey to enquire into the outrages on American subjects and enforce payment ior their losses at Kharput and Marash., Athens, September I.— The ' Cretans are delighted at the Sultan, of Turkey allowing i bare majority in the Cretan Assembly to prevail" excepting on questions of constitutional reforms, when a twa-thirds majority will be insisted oa\ Constantinople, September 2.« V. Tferrible details are given (Jif'the massacre. la several quarters of the city every male Armenian was massacred. ' Forty-fivi» women and children, who ,to»k. refuge on, th> flat roof of a house were slaughtered, anoi the bodies thrown down into the street. Numbers of others were outraged. „'<<■] r\ \ la some cases ArmenianarfQught desperately. & vi Four hundred (soldiers were killed id the attack in front o£theX)ttom^n Bank. The Bank authorities, fearing thej will be charged with complicity in the outbreak, and having, since discovei^d a mass of dynamite under the main staircase, intend to send aU Jjheir Armerifen' officials abroad. ' ' It is believed the four hundred Moslems arrested on a obarge of committing excesßes are really members of the Younc Turkish Party. 8