The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-11
TURKEYS SULTAN GIVES IN.
An Trade Issued Allowing More
Guardships 10 GO 10 the city.

Guardshtps 10 GO TO the city.
Constantinople, Dec. 10.-M Nelidoff. the
Russian ambassador to Turkey. has sent
a communication to the sultan, informing
his majesty that his diplomatic col
leagues had resolved TO insist upon the
admission of additional guardships
through the Dardanelles. He also ap-
pealed to the sultan in the name of the
czar to take the matter under the most
serious consideration. He believed, he
said. that should the sultan refuse to
grant the necessary permits, additional
ships would be ordered to enter the
Hellespont without them. the warships OF
the foreign squadrons probably support
ing them.
Yesterday Said Pasha. formerly grand
vizier, lett the British embassy, where
he had taken refuge from real or fancied
dangers attending his residence in the
palace in accordance with the desire of
the sultan. Prior TO his taking his depart
ure from the embassy he was visited by
Has Antahsin Effendi,on OF the officials Of
the interior department. who rendered to
him the guarantee of the sultan that no
harm should come to him. Ii Is said
said Said Pasha is crazy, and 1t IS also
asserted upon authority Of palace off,
cials that his brother died insane.
The sultan has issued an trade permit
ting the extra guardships demanded by
the powers TO come to ConstantinoplG,
and thus, after many delays and much
diplomacy, the veXauous question Is, IL is
II is stated that the losses sustained
by the missionaries at Marash by the de,
struction of their property during the
rioting there amount to f2,400 Turkish
money.
The rumor Is revived that the Armenians
here are preparing to make fresh dem
onstratiOn In view OF What they term the
apathy of the powers in bringing about a
cessation Of the massacres.
II is rumOred several superior military
officers, including lsmet Pasha, an aide-de-
camp OF his majesty, have fed from the
city, II having reached their ears that
they were suspected of being connected
with the young Turkey party, which is
agitating I'm favor Of a constitutional gov
ernment on the lines laid down in the
constitution of 1876.
evening, whittier he had fed believing
his life to be in danger. the ex-grand
vizier. Said Pasha, requested the Sultan
TO grant him permission to leave the coun-
try with his family. What action the sui
tan took on the request Is not known, but
the fact that Said Pasha left the embassy
and returned to his residence is taken
as proof that the sultan must have given
the strongest assurance that no harm
would befall him here.
Reports continue to arrive showing that
the pillaging and burning OF Armenian
villages In Anatolia, especially in the
villayet of Van, is going on as though the
sultan had issued no orders to the au-
declarations that order has been restored
everywhere excepting at Ieitoun. Large
numbers OF Armenian refugees are wan
dering without food and with scanty cloth
ing, on the mountains. seeking 10 escape
from the Kurds, who hunt them as though
they were wild beasts.
Impartial accounts that have reached
here contradict the stories that The Ar
menians provoked the disorders ami de-
clare that the massacres were the result
of q skillfully arranged plot to oblitarate
the Armenians. It is a noteworthy fact
that the massacres have chiefly occurred
In the vilyaets for which the reform
scheme was recently wrung from the
sultan.
Maj. williams and Maj Bulman, the
newly appointed British vice consuls at
Van and Sivas, will start for their posts
tomorrow Sir Philip Currie, the British
ambassador, has applied 20 the porte for
exequaturs for them in addition TO their
passports.
If the porte delays In granting the ex-
equaturs the vice consuls will proceed
without waiting for them.
A new batch of revolutionary placards
was posted about the city to-day. They
We're most numerous in the Kassim Pasha
quarter.
Washington. Dec. 10.-The Turkish le-
cation received from tho sublime porte
date: Although Lord Salisbury never
said in his speech at Brighton that his
imperial majesty, the sultan ever sent
him a letter or a written communication
direct. yet certain newspapers interpre-
ted in that sense the words OF his lord
ship. AS matter of fact, and in confor-
nifty with the usual practice, only a mes
sage was communicated to Lord Sails
bury through the intermediary Of the inn
perial embassy in London"