The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-12-02
HE BULLIED THE sultan
Sir Philip Currle Thought to Have
Disturbed Action Of the Powers.
GERMANY STILL HESITATES
The Kaiser Regards the Naval Demon
stration at the Straits OF DardaneIIes
as Inopportune- Germany Doesn't
Favor the Partition Of Turkey.

Berlin, Dec. 1.-Without aiming at or
| in the slightest degree desiring to re-
buff the policy of the British govern
ment to exert urgent pressure upon the
sultan Of Turkey, the diplomatic action
of Germany in Constantinople has given
Lord Salisbury a decided check. the
reluctance Of the sultan to permit each
power to send second dispatch boat
through the straits Of the Dardanelles
has been fortified by the receipt of
communications by the sultan which
passed through the hands of the Ger
| man ambassador at Constantinople in
| timating that the kaiser regarded a
naval demonstration in the Levant or
an increase of the number of guard
boats at Constantinople as inopportune.
The Cologne Gazette in Its issue of
last evening stated upon authority
that the governments at Rome and
Vienna were in complete accord with the
Berlin government in its Turkish policy.
The Berlin government from the first
has held that extreme measures would
be inopportune and has steadfastly ad-
hered to it's refusal to lend Germany's
strength to the carrying out of any pol
Icy designed to break up the Ottoman
empire.
Currie Makes Threats.
If the concert of the powers has been
ulStuIUCu IL 10 uuc " tiC aStipii VI toiA
Pnilip Currie, the British ambassador
at Constantinople, who endeavored to
commit the German and the other am
bassadors to the adoption OF extreme
measures against the sultan. Accord
ing to a report which Is credited in
official circles here Sir Philip Currie
took 1t upon himself to bully the sultan
with a threat that the combined fleets
of the powers would force a passage
thro,,uh N Dordo nel1es ~ tho do.
mands Of the powers for permits ad-
mitting additional dispatch boats were
not granted.
Despite the obvious differences
among the powers as to a plan of ac
tion in Turkey. the German official
press have been instructed to keep up
the fiction that the concert of the Pow
| ers Is unimpaired.
The wild schemes for the partition
of Turkey which have been so widely
and Dersisitently discussed In the Eng
liSh press have made most unfavor-
| able impression here.
A Turkish Version.
Washington, Dec. 1.-The Turkish
| legation received from the Sublime
Porte the following telegram under to-
days date:
1.-THE Armenian rioters of Zile At
| Sivas having closed their shops and
fired on the Mussulmans killing one
Of them, an affray occurred during
| which four Mussulmans of whom two
were soldiers, and five Armenians were
killed. The necessary measures were
taken for the restoration Of order.
THE Armenian revolutioniSts at
tackled the District of Enderin. burned
the Palace of the governor and plund-
cred the neighboring Mussulman vii
lagos. Troops we're sent out for the
| repression of these disorders"
Starvation Before Them.
London, Dec. 1.-The representative
| at Constantinople of the United Press
| telegraphing under yesterdays date,
! pictures a pitiable condition of affairs
at Harpoot, where the American mis-
sion buildings were burned at the time
of the recent massacre there. Advices
| from Harpoot show that there is great
danger of hundreds of the poorer class
| es of Armenians starving to death
| The people are now in a condition of
| apathy, and many Of them, 1t is be-
| lieved, would welcome death at the
hands of their enemies rather than to
await the slow process of starvation.
Some. however, who have q little money
| of their own or who have been secretly
assisted by comparatively well to do
compatriots, are fleeing to small places
| ter their miserable condition.
Those Armenians who have fled to
| ConstantinOple, thinking that in the
| capital they would be more or less
under the protection of the representa-
! tive of the various powers. have found
| their hopes dashed to the ground. Per-
haps If they We're allowed to remain.
| they might find the protection they
| seek at any rate, 1t Is pretty certain
/ al hn pnf frnv l.
| blooded massacre, but the government
in the case of the refugees is enforcing
| the principle of serfdOm that every
| subject Is bound to the soil and every
| day large numbers Of Armenians are
| arrested. At night they are shipped in
| patches to the places where they were
born, with the warning that it will be
bitter for them to remain there.
| Loch RannOch Fired Upon.
London, Dec. 1.-The Daily News will
| tomorrow publish despatch from
| Odessa giving an interview with Cap
| tain Noble, of the British steamer Loch
| Rannoch from Leith Nov for Odessa,
| which arrived few days ago at
Chanak, at the entrance of the Dardan-
nelles q few minutes after sun down.
| Captain Noble observed that the shore
on either side of the straits was lined
with troops under canvas, and that cam
! non were placed at close stages along
the banks. Two blank shots were fired
| one from each shore. at the Loeb Ran
noch. The captain did not heave his
vessel to, thinking that the shots were
part of some military manoeuvre. Soon
| three shells were fired at the steamer.
The first shell dropper under the bow of
the steamer, the second fell eastern and
the third whizzed across the bridge a
few feet from the captains head.
Captain Noble instantly reversed the
steamers engines. He was astonished
and thought that war had been de-
clared between England and Turkey.
Hitherto the Turkish authorities have
always allowed a time margin for ves-
sells arriving in the straits after SUM-
down. The head Of the Dardannelles
is covered with torpedoes.
| Compromise Rcnchcd.
| London, Dec. 1.-The Telegraph will
| tomorrow will publish dispatch from
Vienna saying 1t Is reported that p
| compromise has been reached between
the foreign representatives at Constan-
| tinople and the Sultan regarding the
| guardship question. The Sultan, II
| Is said, will grant the Firmans neces-
sary for the entry Of the guardship
| into the Bosphorus on condition that
the Powers will not use them unless the
lives Of Christians are seriously en-
dangered.
PROTECTING AMERICANS.
MI. olasy says Eysryihing Is Being Done
i to assure Their safety.
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