New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-11-28
THE SULTAN WEAKENS.
CONSENTS ITO ADDITIONAL DISPATCH
BOATS IN THE BosPHORUs.
AN AMERICAN MISSION sAckED-f'hl DIS
rrrRBANcEs EXPECTED IN cAEsARIA-AL-
LEGGED EXPLANATION OF ENGLANDs
.PAruy-wHY RUSSIA Is SAID TO DE

APATHY-WTIY RUSSIA Is SAID TO BE
PLAYING WAITING GAME
Iondon Nov 27-The correspondent OF the
United Press In Constantinople teegraphs under
the date of November 26. that as result OF the
advice Of the Sutans Ministers. Tewfk Pacha'
the Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs, informed
Sir Philip Currie the British Ambassador, yes
,erdav that the Sutan had decided to grant the
permit applied for by the Powers TO double the
number Of foreign guard ships In the Bosphorus'
.Tba Standard" has dispatch under s2te OF
Yesterday confirming the statement mat the
turkish Foreign Minister has decided to grant
q hermit TO the foreign Powers to double the
number of guardships in the Bosphorus
Tomorrow THE Standard" will print Con-
stantinople dispatch saying that despite yes
terday's decision the Porte Is still earnestly
considering the question. THE Daily News
will publish dispatch to the same effect.
The correspondent of the United Press at Con-
stantinople telegraphs. under Yesterdays GATE,
that dispatches from Harpoot say that the local
authorities and the Porte promised to afford pro-
lection to American missions there. The house
occupied by the Rev. ~ H. Barnum, of Leicester.
Mass. and the Rev. C.. Frank Gates. of Chicago,
was saved, but all of the property 1t contained
was carried off This destruction OF property oc-
Cured after the Portes promise, upon Minister
Terrelrs demand that the missions should be
protected. and the act leaves the Government
liable for damages.
A later dispatch from Harpoot saws that the
Rev DR.. C. H. Wheeler president OF the Amer
lean college there. is in feeble health and unable
to leave the town. The dispatch asserts that
great deal Of religious oppression is being exer-
cised upon the natives. and also that speedy as
sistance is necessary to prevent their dying from
starvation
dispatch from Caesaria says that further dis
turbances are expected there. 1t is reported that
the foreigners were all safe during the second
outbreak at Marash.
An Armenian named Guidjian. naturalized
American citizen attached to the mission In
Aleppo. arrived in Constantinope and was seized
by the police. but Minister Terrell demanded his
immediate delivery to the United states Lega-
ton.
Washington. Nov 27-The Turkish Legation
received the following telegram from the Sub
lime Porte unle to-day's date:
The Turkish Government which has always
looked scrupulously after the protection OF all
foreigners in the Empire has also. on the occa-
necessary INSTRUCTIONS to that effect before any
application had been made by any foreign mission
at Constantirople
Berlin, Nov PA dispatch to the Cologne
a
section of the Anatoan Railway. from Alum
Karahissar to Akshehr. was opened yesterday.
The section is sixty miles long anG has FIVE sta
tons
Paris, Nov PA dispatch from Constantinople
saws the Porte has declined the offer of the
Tobacco Reggie of loan fl. OOo, 200 in consider
alton Of an extension Of the concession enjoyed
by the Reggie.
London. Nov. 27-The United Press represen-
tatve at Constantnople sends the following re-
port of an interview with an Armenian OF high
standing. who speaks with authority for large
section of the Armenian people:
Russia would be glad to obtain the country knC ESa
treats nSw mot very R nd
allows them religious liberty. giving position OF
purpose. She would have Armenans believe that
what is now done for their countrymen and church
in Russia would be continued In Turkish Armenia
If Russia took over the provinces from Turkey. She
therefore bids for the sympathy OF Armenlans. hop
the frontier dHg and take from Turkey the ProTince1
nearest the border. This could be accomplished
Armenians. chiefly by the latter asking Russia to
come to their assstance and relieve them from the
the Armenians once in her grasp. would change her
attitude What has She done to the Jews? Can
Armenians differently? She would begin shortly to
cept the Orthodox faith would be as wreched under
the Russian as under the Turk. No. Armenans
prefer the slavery or the present rule 10 mat slavery
Of which they know nothing
A change Of Sutans would DO no good Turkey is
the under any ruler, and has been so for CEN
turtles. different ruler would effect nothing. What
is wanted IS a change OF practice. a change in the
management of the Empire. The Sultan should not
be invested with the dual power OF head Of the
Church and head of the Empire. He should be
king but not priest separate person should be
at the head OF the Church and dea, with all religious
questions This would in n large measure assist
toward the solution OF vexed question
Lord Salisbury made powerful speech in the
House OF Lords in favor of the Armenian cause
l3uf " a
display of diplomacy. which instead OF eliminating
In the expected victorious finish mad lamentable
and feeble end, she has been defeate by the Sui
tan, and yet she stirs not 1t is impossible to
understand her. unless one ascrbes her conduct to
a desire to checkmate Russia and not to assist
Armenia In her trouble. This Is doubtless the sou-
tion OF her policy OF words without action.
Temperate Armenians do not Justify their coun-
tfymen in taking up arms, but they acknowledge
that terrible provocation has been given them
and refer to the passage I'm the trade of 1899 az
pleading something In excavation of the act The
same Armenians also plead that because a few
hundred hotheads have arisen in opposition to the
powers Of authority thousands of their country
men ought not TO be ruthlessly slaughtered and
practically war Of determination carried on