The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-22

WASHINGTON, Nov. 21-That SILL
tan Abdul Hamfd II is making efforts
to quell the disturbances in the sari-
Gus provinces of Turkey, and intends
to hold his subordinate officials strictly
to account for future disorders seems
to be confirmed by the following cable
received by the Turkish legation here
today:
Absolutely False.
FAll news about plots against his
imperial majesty, the sultan, are abso-
lutely and entirely false
Transmit you below the text of
three kilograms that have been sent
to the walls and to the military com
manders of those provinces where
troubles lately took place, and I beg
OF you to give them the widest pub
licity:
First, telegram addressed to the
governors-general of the Vilayets of
Irebizond, Erzeroum, Bitlis, Van,
Diarbekir. Mamouretoul-Aziz, Sivas,
Abanya and Aleppo, dated November
10:
The commanders of brigades in de-
tach1ng flying columns for the repres-
sion of disorders, Will send out a pro-
clamation to the people, in order to adj
wise those who are in arms against the
legal authorities of their country to
give up their various plans and to alb
stain from all acts directed against
the high wishes of his imperial ma
jesty, the sultan. The commanders
will have to deal Immediately and by
force of arms with all persons who
disoIbey these injunctions. They will
also try to prevent, in placing troops
at different points, all movements on
the part of the rioters attacking
boroughs and villages. If murders or,
insurrectionary acts We're to take place
suddenly within the sphere of evolu-
ton of a flying column, said command
ers will have to pursue Immediately
and without giving amy preliminary
warming, the authors of those crimes.
The commanders-fn-chie of the fourth
imperial corps will help with his troops
the commanders of brigades under his
orders with the view of securing the
success of their task. The department
of war has been instructed to transmit
Geographic orders as above to the
muchie and to the commanders of said
imperial corps. The line of conduct OF
the civil authorities toward the agita-
tors having been already shown by
trade, you will have to make to the
proper parties all recommendations in
conformity with said telegram before
the sending of troops for the repres-
sion of disorders. The above DISPOSE
tions having received the imperial
sanction the needful instructions have
been sent to the department of war
and to the other wallis. L request you
again to conform yourself to the same
as regards your vilayet. Our august
sovereign's determination is that order
shall be restored Immediately in all
disturbed parts, that the life, honor
safeguarded, and that all acts con-
trary to justice and equity shall be
prevented. You will watch day and
night to secure the realization of said
imperial determination by putting a
stop to disorders, without delay"
Another Warming.
"Second-Telegram addressed to
the wallis of Van, Bitlis, Erzeroum,
Aleppo, Diarbekir, Trebizond. Sivas
and Mamouretoul-Aziz, dated Nov. II;
Although repeated instructions We're
given to you with the view of adjust
ing in your vilayet all necessary
measures for preventing all possible
troubles and all shedding of blood,
and of forbidding as well that one
class of the population attack the
other, or that acts contrary to justice
should occur, such cases continue.
however, to take place. One of the
most important duties of the wallis be-
ing, according to the formal orders OF
his imperial majesty, t%c sultan, to
secure public peace in the provinces,
hasten to warn you that if, after
the receipt of the present telegram.
there should occur acts like fires. Sc
d1t1ous movements, perturb ations of
public order. or shedding of blood.
such an omission of duties cannot bv
any means be forgiven and would car
ry with it grave and absolute respon-
sibility Such responsibility falling
also on the moutessarifs and caima
cams, you must also put yourself in
accord with the commanders for the
adoption OF the necessary dispositions.
You will principally look with the
greatest of care after the protectin ro
of the consulates and foreign sub
jects in order to place them ont of
any danger and to avoid any motive
for complaint on their part. All guilty.
parties should be arrested and pun
ished according to the law. You will
telegraph in plain words every twenty
four hourse the department of war. to
the grand vizier, and to the imperial
palace of the situation of the viIayet.
To Protect Public Peace.
Third-Telegram addressed to the
marshal of the Fourth imperial corps
and to the military commanders of AL
eppo, Bitlis, Adana, Trebozond, Sivas.
Mamouretout-Aziz and other parts Of
Asiatic Turkey, dated Nov. IL: The
explicit will of our august sovereign
being that tranquility of the country
should be maintained more than ever,
and in a most efficient manner, and in
order to prevent absolutely any such
acts as fires, revolutionary movements,
shedding of blood or attacks on the
part of ore class of the population
on the other, or against the consulates
and foreign subjects the necessary in
structions have already been transmit
ted to the functionaries Of the civil
In conformity with an
imperial aride, the imperial military
authorities shall put themselves in ac-
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