The herald., 1895-12-01
The Gunboat Is Ordered Back
to SalOnica
A BOLD BRITISH BACKDOWN
The Diplomats Are Doubtful About Car.
rying Their Point
Dr.. TaImsge Confirms tho Report That
lie Refused to Go to Armenia.
The Porte Denounced
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire.
vvrolnr i1nOrLE, NOV. -, via DO
ia. Bulgaria, Nov. aO.--After all the war.
like talk Of yesterday the British am bas-
sador, Sir Phillip Cufrie, nas backe d
down. The British gun boat Dryad has
been ordered back to Salonioa. The,gsn-
eral opinion Is that the owners have been
placed in . somewhat ridiculous posi-
ton. Following repeated threats of the
foreign passage of the DaIdanelles If the
sultan persisted in refusing to allow ex-
ira gun boats to enter tue Bosphorus, this
LOOKS very much as If Abdul Hamid and
his advisers we're yell informed when
they persisted in holding ont against the
demands o. the representa- yes of Great
Britain Russia, Italy and Austria for
additional, run boats as guardships, oeliev-
ing they were justified Ill so doing on the
ground that the powers are not in accord
ance as officially statet, and that t.e dis
sentins powers were bchi.id Abdul Hamid
in the etanu he has tasen.
Diplomatic Doubts
LONDON. Nov. 30 "A Copstan,inople
dispatch to the Times says that the
diplomats there appear less confident of
carrying their point as TO the admission
OF u second gusrdship of each OF the
powers into the Dardanelles.
The sultan seems 10 consider" the
correspondent continues, that the fact
that such small concession IS de-
manded, proves that the powers are not
in agreement on the subject, and that he
is therefore SAT- in refusing he irman..
Should the sultan's opposition prevail.
Christians and fnreig lers Will be placed
in position of great danger.
said Pasha again visited the am bassa-
dors in an erdeavr. on behalf OF the
OF the admission Of the second guard
ship Pr.
The Times also publishes dispatch.
dated Julia, Persia, which says:
MANY Armenian villages between
the Persisn borders and the city of Van
have been destroyed by the Hami Dieh
cavalry. They probably nun ber forty six
altogether. 1t is impossible to obtain
any reasonable estimate Of the numuer
killed. rhe city of Van is the only place
left untouched by the kurds, and it is
feared massacre will soon take place
there. Armed bands of Armenian pa
n. triots are C crossing from ?, y r',s H., to the
SalMar fought the Hami Dieh cavalry
fr two days near Serai. Many were
killed on both sides. when the cavslry
withdrew and plundered and destroyed
SerdiI. The Vienna correspondent, of the
standard says the snltan's 'efus Il OF tba
through the Dardanelles is due to his
know edge OF a temporary disse nsion
amons tine powers which, it is said, has
now been rem owed"
The Daily News correspondent says:
All the powars remain united and bsve
refused the porte's request for with
drawal of their demands for the passage
OF the additional guarusbips.
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Taln,aue's Views
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.--Rev. 7. De-
Witt Talmaee, the noted Presbyterian
divine, who has just begun his minister
ial labors in Washington. tonight con
tirmed the statement published in New
York that he had refused to go to Ar
menia to distribute relief funds OH &c.
count of the condition OF affairs there
ana the refu sal of the Turkish govern.
ment to furnish protection. He reviewed
the affair in Oh interview, in the course
of which he bitterly denounced the porte,
and said it had fomented the massacres
and retarded the work OF relief.
THE Turkish government, he said.
sis a miserable mass of corruption. Its
workings are rotten TO the core, and the
whole government ought to be blotte1
off the face If the earth. The condition
OF affairs in Armenia is horrible and the
government is responsible for the at,oci-
ties"
Dr. TaImsge said he was asked to con-
duct the work of distributing the relief
wotk by Lou Klorsch OF the Christian
Herald, of which the doctor is the editor.
Through the medium Of the state depart
ment the Turkish governments was asked
if i. would give him an escort while en-
aged in the work. The porte in reply
asked what points he Intended to VISIT,
and WAS i'm adiateIY infnrmed of fnnf