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- tcred every male above the age of tv. 

 nearly I." 1 ;er. 



On' Oct. 10 the Sultan issued an fradi- extending 

 to the whole Ottoman Empire the reforms granted 

 for the six Anatolian vilayets in < ict..K-r. l^'.i-l. < >n 

 - Turkish policeman detailed to protect an 

 Armenian official from blackmailers demanding 

 money for tlie revolutionary committee 

 sinated. This new crime rendered more difficult 

 the negotiations for a reconciliation. On Oct. 24 

 Armenian revolutionists were arrested who had 15 

 kilos of dynamite and a quantity of bombs in 

 their possession. <>n <>et. 26 an attempt was made 

 to murder Monsignor Bartoloineos as lie wa$ driv- 



factury to the Armenian commun: 1 



and MalachiasOrmaniaM.au able and |x>pular 



inscii Patriarch. T: . inary tri- 



bunal was <li>snlvcd. Of l.Ono 

 and .Mussulman. arrcst-d in c..iii:-cti<iii wir 

 ri"ts <>VT l.^nii w.-iv acquitted. < H ' 

 all except '2~) who wen- -rntrncrd f,,r murder 

 eventually pardoned, and a _- neral an 

 granted to all Armenians. 



( rcte. The Armenian difficulty led to a revival 

 of the Cretan agitation. Karat h-.. dory, the ' 

 ernor General, sought to check it by di>sulvii:_ 



ly five d:: fixed 



for the prorogation. The Opposition, which num- 



THE GORGE OF HAG1O RUMELI. IX CRETE. 



i:ig through the streets of Constantinople. On the 

 same day more dynamite was found in Scutari. 

 Js'azim Bey was removed from the Ministry of Po- 

 lice and Ahmed Sheffik Effendi appointed in his 

 place. A plot to start a revolutionary rising in Er- 

 zerum was revealed by the confession of an emissary 

 of the London committee named Arotioum Kira- 

 gotian. The rifles were found stored in a monas- 

 tery. The Sultan in deference to the suggestions 

 of the French Cabinet announced in the beginning 

 of November that- he was ready to introduce the 

 promised reforms. The Armenian National Assem- 

 bly was convoked on Nov. 12. A new council, satis- 



bered only five members, announced that the ques- 

 tions that had not been settled in the bosom of the 

 :ibly would be disposed of with arms upon the 

 mountains. A Christian Reform Committee was or- 

 ganized, though its actions were at first disapproved 

 by the whole of C'rete except the districts of Apo- 

 kbrona and Sphakia. The movement, however, be- 

 came more general daily. The Moslem element 

 was more bitterly angered by this agitation than it 

 has been on former occasions, because the Chris- 

 tians, owing to the modern education that they ac- 

 quire and the favor of Christian officials, are rapidly 

 ousting their former masters from all profitable em- 



