TURKISH AFFAIRS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 5656, 29 August 1896, Page 6

TURKISH AFFAIRS.

» ARMENIAN EIOTS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. STUBBOEN FIGHTING. MANY PEOPLE KILLED. [Per Press Association.] CONSTANTINOPLE, August 27. The rioting began in Galata, the largest suburb of Constantinople, on the north side of the Golden Horn, and failing to reach the palace the Armenians stormed the Ottoman Bank, killing the gendarmes who were guarding it. The object of the not was not robbery, but of a political character. Many people were killed, and numerous Bhops were sacked. Bombs were exploded in Galata and the adjoining suburb of Pera. Hundreds of rioters were arrested before order was restored. French sailors are guarding the French Embassy. August 28. The Porte declares that jthe Armenian Committee organised on a vast scale, and with wonderful secrecy, a programme of disorder to terrorise tte city. The rioters seized the banks, a monastery and other dofendable 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 streets. IFour Turkish ladies passing in a carnage were subjected to a dynamite outrage. Hundreds of civilians, and many soldiers, were killed. A large quantity of stores and bombs were discovered in an Armenian church at Pera and elsewhere. The bauk was defended for many hours, and ultimately its assaiJants were conveyed away ou board the Vincent yacht, which probably will be expelled from the Bosphorus. The Armenian Patriarch bas excommunicated the leader of the trouble. BEPvLLN", August 28. Private accounts received here state that the Turkish soldiery, butchered hundreds of Armenians.