New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-02
A COMPROMISE ALLEGED.
THE SULTAN SAID TO BE READY TO GRANT
THE FIRMANS.
NO FOOD IN HARPOoT-TURKrsH MINISTRY Be
LIEVED TO RE DOOMED-ARMENIANS FORCED
TO ExToL THE GOVERNMENT-THE
LOCH RANNOCH FIRED UPON IN
THE DARDANELLEs- GER
MANY CHECKED LORD
SALISBURY. .

THE DARDANEI.LEs- GER
MANY CHECKED LORD
SALISBURY?
London Dec 1.-The Telegraph" will to-mor-
row publish a dispatch from Vienna saying it is
reported that a compromise has been reached be-
tween the foreign representatives al COnstanti-
nople and the Sultan regarding the guardshp
question The Sultan. II is said. will grant the
frmans necessary for the entry Of the guard
ships into the Bosphorus on condition that the
Powers will not them unless the lives of
Christians are seriously endangered.
The dispatch adds that Russia scouts the idea
of a European conference being held on the Turk
sh question.
The representative at Constantinople Of the
United Press, telegraphing under yesterdays
date. pictures a ptiabe condition Of af-
fairs at Harpoot where the American mis-
sion buildings were burned at the time Of
the recent massacre there. The representa-
tive of the United Press has received advices
from Harpoot showing that there is great dan
ger of hundreds Of the poorer classes of Ar
menians starving to death. The peril that con-
fronts these people is an immediate one. They
are absolutely without food and without the
means of getting any. The American mission
aries have sent tn usands of dollars TO relieve
this distress but the sums furnished by them
have gone but little way TO ward off the
famine which threatens. The money has been
expended advantag geously as possible, but
there 50 many persons who are homeless
foodess and helpless that nothing but Gov
ernment relief will save them from great dis
aster
The people in a condition of apathy
and many of them. II is believed. would welcome
death ct the hands of their enemies rather than
await the slow process of starvation. Some
however. who have little money Of their own.
or who have been secretly assisted by compare
lively well-to-do compatriots are fleeing to small
places in the interior, where they hope To better
their miserable condition. They run the risk
Of being massacred en- rou.e as the govern
ment will furnish them not the slightest pre-
lection.
Those Armenans who have fed to CONSTANT
nople, thinking that in the capital they would
be more or less UNDER the protection of the
representatives of the Powers. have found their
hopes dashed to the ground Perhaps II they
were allowed to remain they might find the pro-
tecton they seek, at any rate. it Is pretty GER
tain that they would be safe from cold-blooded
massacre: but the Government, In the case of
the refugees. is enforcing the principle Of serf-
dom, that every subject is bound to the soil and
every day large numbers Of Armenians are ar
rested. At night they shipped in patches
TO the places where they born, with the
warning that 1t will be better for them TO remain
there
THE Standard" will tomorrow publish dis
patch from Constantinople saying it IL believed
there that the present Ministry is doomed and
that Said Pacha recently the Grand-Vzier, will
succeed HALL Rafaat Pacha. the present Grand
Vizier Said Pachs is President of the
Council of State.
The Daily News will Tomorrow publish dis
patch from Constantinople saying that the Porte
has documents. claimed TO have been written by
Armenians in Harpoot declaring that the educa-
ton given by the American missionaries has
seduced their young men from rectitude and
brought calamity upon them. The dispatch adds
that elsewhere the officials force starving Ar
menians to sign papers declaring that the liberty
.nioved under Turkish rule is rot equalled in
any land.
\ BRITISH STEAMER FIRED UPON.
The Daily News" will also publish q dis
patch from Odessa. giving interview with
Captain Noble. of the British stamer Loeb
Rannoch from Leth. November l. for Odessa.
which arrived few days ago at CEanak. at
the entrance Of the Dardaneles few minutes
after sundown Captain Noble observed that
the shore on both sides OF the straits
lined with troops under canvas. and that can
non were placed at close stages along the
banks Two blank shots. one from each shore,
were fired at the Loeb Rannoch. The captain
did not heave his vessel to. thinking that the
shots were part Of some military manoeuvre.
Soon three shells fred at the steamer.
The first shell dropped under the bow Of the
steamer the second fell astern and the third
whizZed across the bridge few feet from the
captains head. Captain Noble instantly re-
versed the steamers engines. He was aston.
shed and thought that war had been declared
between England and Turkey. Hitherto the
Turkish authorities have always allowed a time
margin for vessels arriving in the straits after
sundown The head of the Dardaneles is
covered with torpedoes
The representative of the United Press in
Constantinope says that no progress has been
made in the negota tions between the Ambas-
sadols and the Porte relative to the admission
into the Bosphorus Of a second guardship for
each of the Powers which signed the Treaty OF
Berlin. The delay that has occurred over the
settlement Of this question leads TO the belief
that the concert of the Powers is not as per-
feet as is claimed. and that jealousies that
have hitherto been latent now actively
working in manner that aids the sultan In
working one Power against another II is held
that if all the Powers were agreed upon a
definite course to be pursued. the question Of
admitting the extra guardships would be set
their entry into the Bosphorus. and that other
vexatiOus diplomatic questions would be speed
lily disposed Of
Recently a number OF unknown men, presuma-
bly, police or Government officials. visited
number Of houses occupied by Armenians and
made notes Of the number Of persons in each.
They refused 10 enter into any explanation Of
their action. and their proceedings have in
creased the anxiety felt by the Armenians and
other Christians in the city. 1T IS feared that
the taking Of such census is preliminary 10
the wholesale driving out OF the Arnenians Of
COnstantnOple II is possible that the author
tiles may mediate sending the Armenian resi-
dents, al least those suspected Of being con-
cerned in revolutionary plots. to the various
towns Of Anat0ia tArmenia). where, should they
be massacred by the Kurds, the blame for their