Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-11-22
THE PORTE'S ORDERS
To His officials Are Strict Enough
About Preserving Order,
Ru Trouble Is That They Pay Little Attention
10 the Orders.


,o,r,tiop today. received from the Sublime
De- ,bis telegram: "All news about
Mo- against His Imperial Majesty, the
SnI,,n are absolutely and entirely false.
7 .u,,,r,,,it Won the text of three kilograms
sent 10 wallis and military communities VI
,bosa provinces where troubles lately TOOK
Mace. and beg of you to give them 'he
widest publicity
First: The telegram addressed TO the
Governors. general of the vilayets OF
Trsbjzonde. Erzeroum, Bitlis, Van, Dlar-
behir Observation-Disclosures. Slvas, Adana
and Aleppo dated Nov. 10
..Commanders of brgades, in detachlng
, flving column for the repression OF dis
orders will send out Il proclamation adj
visinp those in arms against the legal au-
tborities to give up seditious plans ana
abstain from all acts directed against the
wishes of His Imperial Majesty, the Sui
tan.
Commanders will have to deal by
force of arms with all persons who disobey
this Injunction They will try to preve mt
all movements on the part of the rioters
attacking boroughs and villages. If muir
ders or insurrectionary acts take place sud
denly within the sphere of the evolution
of the flyng column, said commanders
will have to pursude without preliminary
warning the authors Of those crimes.
"Our august sovereign's determination
is that order shall be restored Immediately
in all disturbed parts; that the life, honor
and property of every one shall be safe
guarded, and all acts contrary to justice
and equity shall be prevented You will
IL. oil
ton of said imperial determination by
putting, without delay, stop to dis
orders.
Second: kilograms addressed to the
wallis of Van, Bitlis, Erzeroum, Aleppo,
Diarbekir, Trebizonde, Sivas and Man
onretoul- Azize, dated Nov. II:
50 Although repeated Instructions have
been given you with the view of adopting
in your vilayet all necessary measures for
preventing all possible troubles and all
shedding of blood. and forbidding AS well
that one class of the population shall at
tack the other, or acts contrary to justice
should occur, such cases continue to take
place.
lone of the most important attributions
of the wallis being, according to the formal
orders of His Imperial Majesty, to secure
public peace in the provinces, | hasten to
warn you that if, after the receipt of the
present telegram, there should occur acts
like fire, seditious movements, perturba-
lions of public order or shedding of blood,
such omission of your duties could not by
any means be forgiven and would carry
with it a grave absolute responsibility
such responsibility falling also on
Moutessarefs and Caimaoams must also
put yourself in accord with the command
ers for the adoption of the necessary dis
positions. You will principally look with
the greatest care after the protection of
the consulates and foreign subjects to
place them out of any danger and avoid
any motive for conflict on their part
"All guilty parties should be arrested
and punished according to law. You will
telegraph in plain words, every "A hours,
to the department of war, to the grand
vizierate and to the imperial palace the
situation of the vilayet
Third: The telegram addressed to the
marshal of the fourth imperial corps and
military commanders CT Aleppo, Bitlis,
Adana, Trebizonde, Manonretoul Azizc
and other parts of Asatic Turkey, dated
II of November:
The explicit will OF our august sovereign
being that the tranquility of the country
should be maintained more than ever in "A
most efficient manner, and in order to
prevent absolutely any such acts as fires,
revolutionary movements, shedding of
blood, or attacks on the part of one class
of the population upon the other or
against the consulates and foreign sub
jects, necessary instructions have already
been transmitted in the funt tionarics of
the civil administration.
''In conformity with the Imperial Trade
the Imperial military authorities shall
put themselves in accord with the walls
and mountessarifs to secure the public
peace and see that the officers ard soldiers
of the imperial army act according to the
military regulations, abstainipg carefully
from all acts tending tn cause complaints
Any disobedieDce of the above, any neg
lect or any proceeding contrary to disci
pline will entail the gravcst response
bility.''