[Per I’hk.s.s Association.]

LONDON, September 2,

Terrible details are given of the mas sacre. In several quarters of the city every male Armenian was massacred. Forty-five women and children who took refuge on the flat roofs of houses were slaughtered and the bodies thrown into the street. Numbers of others were out raged. In some cases the Armenians fought desperately. Four hundred sol diers wore killed in the attack upon the Ottoman Bank. The bank authorities, fearing they will be charged with com plicity in the outbreak, and having since discovered dynamite under the main stair case, intend sending all their Armenian officials abroad. It is believed that the 400 Moslems arrested on a charge of com mitting excesses are really members of the Young Turkish party. The British Mediterranean squadron has been ordered to the Levant. Sir Philip Currie, British Ambassador at Constantinople, returns there imme diately.’ Austria, Germany, and Russia are dis playing greater sympathy with the policy of the Marquis of Salisbury in compelling the Sultan to carry out reforms in Turkey. CONSTANTINOPLE, September 3.
The Embassies estimate that in the recent massacre G,OOO Armenians were slaughtered here. The Sultan is greatly concerned at the refusal of the Embassies to carry out the usual illuminations, and points out the bad effect it is likely to have ou the troops. The Ambassadors have replied to the effect that any rejoicings would be out of place after the recent terrible out rages.
THE AUSTRALIANS AT HOME.
