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IV.— Alashgerd.
(a.) —Kara Kelissa.
1. Four from Keshish Keui, have been in prison about three months.
2. Four from Mazri Keui (Merdessi, Manouk, Rai Sefer, Astadour), in prison
three months, on a charge of trying to obtain guns from Russia.
3. Three from Yunjalu (Shevi Oghlou, Boghos, Marka, and another), in prison
two months, accused of corresponding with Russian Armenians.
4. Four from Mangazer, in prison same time as above, and on same charge.
5. One from Hidur, ditto, ditto.
6. Three from Kara Kelissa, out of ten arrested two months ago ; seven have been
released on bail.
(b .)—Toprak Kala.
Thirteen: Ohannis, his brother Sirkis, Parseh (member of the Local Council),
Tatos (member of the Court of First Instance), Kahabet I arjabet, Sahag, Rampaisuan,
Hubcho Oghlou Krikor, Yerikian Sukias, Timurji Muggerdich, Serkisian Hazro, from
Toprak Kala; Vahan, Parsek, son of Manouk, from Amad.
These thirteen were arrested two months ago, accused of having dealings with
Russian Armenians and of having gone to the Russian village ot Kaigsman (or
seditious purposes.
The prisoners say that they went to see the bride of one of their friends, according
to the Armenian custom.
(Signed) CHARLES S. SAMPSON,
Acting Consul.
* Inclosure 4 in No. 30.
Consul Jago to Sir IV, White.
Aleppo, March 20, 1891.
IN reply to your Excellency’s telegraphic inquiries dated the 14th instant, I have
the honour to state that I am informed that there are now 101 Armenians imprisoned in
the Vilayets of Aleppo and Adana, viz., 42 in Aleppo, 24 in Marash, 20 in Adana, and
15 in Pyass.
Those in Aleppo and Marash are people of Zeitoun accused, I believe, in
connection with the murder of the gendarme, firing on the troops, aiding and
sheltering the robbers, or acting as emissaries of the Revolutionary Committees.
Those in Adana come under the last category, while those at Pyass, all of one
family, and said to be well educated, are accused, I believe, of aiding and sheltering
the robbers of Zeitoun.
I have just been informed by a trustworthy Armenian source that recently
Zeitoun robbers having pillaged near Marash a caravan composed of Moslems and
Christians, without, however, plundering the Christians, the authorities oi Marash
have imprisoned about thirty Christians belonging to the villages in the neighbourhood
of the attack on the ground of complicity with the lobbers.
I have, &c.
(Signed) T. S. JAGO.
Inclosure 5 in No. 36.
Consul Longworth to Sir W. White.
Sir, Trcbizond, March 14, 1891.
IN reply to your Excellency’s telegram of this date, I beg to report as follows
Parscgh Zavarian, a Russian subject and Director of the Armenian School, who
on the 12th instant was condemned to five years’ confinement in a fort, is now the only
one in custody within the vilayet on the charge of conspiracy against the State.
His arrest was effected on the 31st January last consequent on the police discovering
among the letters seized at the post-offices, one sent to his address by a certain
\artan Katchaznuni, of St. Petersburg!), containing a paragraph of a compromising
nature, which from the Russian text may be rendered thus into English:—