Grave fears are expressed at Constantinople that another massacre- of
Armenians has occurred, this time at Mush and Sassoon, near the Russian border. It is known that disturbances have broken out, and that eight regiments have• been ordered to the spot, and since that order was given all officials profess to know nothing. This is ominous, but the despatch of so large a force may justify a different suggestion,—namely, a mutiny. It was certainly reported that soldiers and Armenians together had blown up a Govern- ment building, and a serious conflict between Turkish troops aided by Armenians and the Hamidi cavalry is precisely the kind of event about which officials in Constantinople would be silent. We shall doubtless know the truth in a few days vitt St. Petersburg, and meanwhile may be suffered to hope that Armenians at last are fighting for themselves. The day they break out of the sievelike torpor of ages Europe will sympathise with and ultimately protect them.
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