The New York Times

DETAILS OF ARMENIAN PLOT * FAMINE MENACES MISSION * TURKS RETAKE A

POSITION

MAY 19, 1915

DETAILS OF ARMENIAN PLOT

Conspirators Planned to Kill the Sultan, Enver Pasha, and Germans

PARIS, May 18.-- Report from Constantinople confirm the discovery of a

plot
organized by Armenians and Turks opposed to the new regime to
assassinate the
Sultan, Enver Pasha, Field Marshal von der Goltz, and General Limon von
Sanders,
according to the Journal's Athens correspondent.

Two Armenians, the Journal says, were to have blown up the Karakeul
bridge
connecting Stamboul and Galate on the Sultan's birthday, while the
ruler,
accompanied by his commanders, was crossing to attend a ceremony at the
mosque
of St. Sephin. The plot is said to have been revealed by a son of
Zograph
Effend, an Armenian Deputy of Constantinople.

The correspondent says that 400 Armenians have been arrested and that
their fate
is unknown while Kurds have received orders to burn two large villages
near Van.

FAMINE MENACES MISSION

Morgenthau Cables an Appeal for Aid for Stations in Turkey

BOSTON, May 18.--The American Road of Commissioners for Foreign

Missions today
received the following cablegram, dated May 15, from the American
Ambassador at
Constantinople, Henry Morgentau:

"All stations begging relief funds. Some say starvation threatened.

Please help
quickly."

The stations mentioned are the seventeen posts of the board in Turkey.

DETAILS OF ARMENIAN PLOT

Conspirators Planned to Kill the Sultan, Enver Pasha, and Germans

CONSTANTINOPLE, (via London,) May 18. --The following official

statement was
issued here today:
"On the Dardanelles front near Avi Burnu, there have been very small
artillery
and infantry engagements, but no important action. Some small transport
ships
have been damaged by our shells.

"Our troops on the right wing have retaken a height 200 meters from our
positions.

"A French cruiser yesterday landed Sarskale, west of Mekri on the

southern shore
of the Gulf of Smyrna, Sixty soldiers, who fled when out coast guards
replied to
their rifle fire. Other cruisers landed about 100 soldiers near Sefat,
west of
Tenika. On the night of May 15-16 two enemy ships which were cruising
near the
Smyrna forts returned after being damaged by our batteries.