TURKS ORGANIZING NEW MASSACRES
The New York Times
Dec 8, 1918.
Special to the New York Times.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. - Information
was received through diplomatic chan-
nels today that the Turkish authorities,
despite Turkey's defeat, are pursuing a
brutal attitude toward the Christian
populations of the empire and are incit-
ing the Ottoman people to fanatical out-
rages against the non-Moslems.
It is declared that the Young Turk
Committee, which came virtually to an
end in name with the flight from Con-
stantinople of Enver Pasha and other
leaders, is being reorganized, and that
its new name will be the Renaissance.
The friends of the fugitive chiefs of the
Young Turks are employing their influ-
ence against the new Government and
the Allies.
Many signs of organizing among the
Turks for new massacres of Christians,
and particularly Greeks, are noted. The
tone of the Turkish press is reported
as hostile to the Allies, and the police
show particula r hatred to Christians.
Stamboul, a French newspaper published
in Constantinople, is publishing warn-
ings to the Turks against their indul-
gence in uncivilized excesses, and ad-
vises the Turks to "submit to the in-
evitable".
Feeble efforts have been made by the
members of the Turkish Parliament to
excuse the massacres of Armenians and
Greeks. The members, however, appear
to be hostile to the new Government,
which is said to be too weak to enforce
respect and obedience. The Grand
Vizier, Tewfik Pasha, is over 80 years
of age, and weak. The Allies are being
attacked in Parliament, and the Foreign
Minister, Rechid Pasha, and the Minis-
ter of the Interior, who sought to reply
to the attacks, were hushed and threat-
ened.
One of the Turkish Ministers is cred-
ited with having said that the Govern
ment was incapable of establishing its
authority. The Turkish administration
throughout the empire is wrecked, and
the new Government seems unable to
repair it.
