It was announced on Wednesday, on the authority of the
Press Association's Chester correspondent, that the Duke of Westminster had been in negotiation with Mr. Gladstone, with the result that Mr. Gladstone had intimated his wil- lingness to address a public meeting at Chester next Tuesday afternoon upon the Armenian atrocities. We are glad to hear that Mr. Gladstone is coming to the aid of the Armenians, and under Unionist auspices. It would be the gravest injury to the Armenian cause were the atrocities to become a matter A party politics. Meantime, the evidence as to the horrors accumulates. We have noticed elsewhere the article which Dr. Dillon contributes to the August Contemporary on the subject of the atrocities. His evidence, which is in no sense suspect, shows that the sufferings of the Armenian Christians were and are as terrible as those of the Bulgarians.
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