Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-14
SEIZED BY ENGLAND.
Marines Land at Sigri, on the Island
Of Mitylene.
DEATH OF EI.MINISTER LORING.
Flower Has the Call on the New
York Democratic Nomination.
ACTOR CURTIS GULLTDOUBTED

ACTOR RCURTIS' GUILTDOUBTED
ENGLAND SEXES MITYLENE.
An Act that is Regarded as Highly sIgnifi-
cant.
CoSsrANT1NopLE, Sept IA detachment Of
blue jackets and marines from British IRON
clad, accompanied by a battery of light field
pieces and several gatling guns, was landed
yesterday morning at Sigri, on the Island Of
Mitylene. formally occupying that place in the
name Of the Queen of England. There is a
good harbor at Sigri and 1t is sup
posed that the British naval officers at Mitylene
intend to fortify the island and to make it a
coaling station and rendezvous for the British
Mediterranean fleet. Sigri is on the coast of
Mitylene and is about sixty miles from the
mouth of the Dardanelles
PARIS, Sept. IA decided feeling Of uneasi-
ness has been caused in diplomatic and finan-
cial circles here by the receipt of an alarming
dispatch announcing that Sigri, on the west
coast of the Island of Mitylene, an
island belonging to Turkey, near the coast Of
ASIA Minor, and within easy steaming distance
OF the Dardanelles, has been occupied by a de-
tachment Of British troops or marines landed
there from British ironclad. No details have
been received and the report lacks oon6rma-
ton.
The Island Of Mitylene is within twenty
area of ZIG square miles and a pop
ulation Of 10000. 1t has good harbors
and fertile soil. The principal
towns are Castro Cor Mitylene) and
Molivo. Tenedos, on the other hand, though
occupying much more advantageous position,
being to all intents and purposes the actual
entrance of the Hellespont, is only five miles
in length and it is of a rugged, rocky nature.
Under ordinary circumstances little or no
credence would have been placed in this alarm
ing rumor, but coupled with the story broadly
circulated on Saturday that Great Britain. in
through the Dardanelles of vessels
belonging to her volunteer feet, intended
to occupy the Island of Tenedos, at the en-
trance to the Hellespont or Dardanelles. more
serious attention is paid to this dispatch from
Constantinople. The Island of Mitylene would
form most advantageous position, from which
Great Britain could control the waters of the
Hellespont.
BUpA PEsrH. Sept 14.-The Pester Lloyd,
doubtless inspired through its editor, Max
Fake, reporter of the foreign committee of the
Hungarian delegation, today says that Austria
Hungary's interest in the Dardanelles question
Is greater than Great Britain's, adding:
Can Austria look on with complacency
while Russia, finding herself barred from ex-
panding through Bulgaria. advances by a
shorter route to the goal she has in view-the
seizure of Constantinople.
England can compensate herself with
Egypt. but where is Austria compensation?
''Ihe powers ought not hesitate to check
Russia. Does Berlin?'
Referring to the alleged Russian plot to seize
Constantinople by a coup de main the PeSte,-
Lloyd quotes a document prepared by Gar
Nicholas in 1853 minutely detailing plans by
which force of 200 infantry, two sotnias Of
Cossacks and thirty-two guns could force the
passage Of the Bosphorous and carry Constan-
tinople. Admiral Menschi-Koff pronounced
the scheme to be an impossible one.
The car. 1t is said, then proposed. as an
alternative, q surprise landing at Bourgaz, a
seaport in eastern Roumelia, seventy-six miles
northeast Of Adrianople, situated ON the
gulf OF Bourgaz. which has depth
idea was that after landing suddenly and
unexpectedly at Bourgaz, "a small Russian force
could from there make a rush upon Constanti-
nople and capture it before the powers could
intervene.
Admiral Menchikoff was at that time at the
head of the Russian navy, which he had raised
to high state of efficiency, and SO he may be
supposed to have well weighed the question be-
fore he pronounced as impossible the proposal
to to force the BosphOrus by a coup
Menchikoff waS sent as ambassador
to Constantinople. where he speedily brought
about a rupture between the porte and the
czar, and eventually caused the Crimean war.
During that war he commanded both land and
naval forces of Russia and DISPLAYED the
greatest energy and skill in defending Sebasto-
pol.
The Poster loud in conclusion saws that il
has also become known from words dropped here
and there recently at st. Petersburg that these
coup de main prospects have been revived in
high official circles there and that yarious plans
of capturing Constantinople have been dis
cussed in view of their great feasibiiitv owing
to the advantage Of modern war eouipmeuts.
EXCITEMENT IN LONDON.
LONDON, Sept. 14.-So soon as the report of
the occupation Of Mitylene BY a British force
WAS received here there was cons;derahle sr-
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called at the foreign office and at the admiraIty.
but the officials on duty there decline to confirm
the report that Great Britain had taken action
In the Dardanelles question. Naturally the fact
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