The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-26
Danger Said to Be Passed.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Noy. 24.-Via
Sofia, Bulgaria, Nov. 25.-There is no
doubt that efforts are being made to
maintain order in the districts where
disturbances are threatened and to
suppress disorders where outbreaks
have occurred. All danger is now
passed. however. The governor of
Hadjin, who threatened to burn the
convent there and set fire to the barley
fields, has, owing to strong representa-
tons made to the porte on the subject
by Mr.. Terrell, been recalled and his
conduct will be inquired into.
The main question now being dis
cussed between the porte and the rep
resentatives of the powers is the de-
mand of Great Britain, Italy, Russia
and Austria for firmans for the pas
sage through the Dardanelles of an ex-
ira gunboat to be attached to their
respective embassies. While admitting
that the powers possess the right to
have two guardshipS each in the Bos-
phorus, the porte considers that the
proposed increase Of the number of
foreign war vessels, under the present
conditions. might excite the Mussal-
mans and produce an effect far from
the one desired by the powers. In adj
dition, the porte points out that in view
of the measures taken to preserve or
der there, the increase in number of
the guardships attached to the en-
bassies is not required. 1t can be said
upon good authority that this is the
substance of the note the porte has
sent the representatives of the powers
A Joint Reply.
AS soon as the note shall have been
received and considered at the British,
Russian, Italian and Austrian embas-
sizes, a conference of the representa-
tives Of those powers will be called and
g. joint reply may be sent to the porte.
The Turkish representatives at Lon
don, st. Petersburg, Rome and Vienna
will be instructed earnestly to request
the four powers not to insist upon their
demand. In political circles the repug-
nance to grant the f1rmans applied for
is attributed to the belief said to exist
among the Turkish ministers and Alb
dul Eamid's encouragers, that to grant
the ffrmans would be a sad blow to the
dignity Of the sultan and direct proof
OF lack of confidence upon the part of
the powers in his ability to govern and
maintain order. Behind this, it is
claimed, turks a fear upon the part of
the sultan that the demanded increase
IL the number of foreign guardships in
the Bosphorus is really only q cloak for
the intention of the powers to make a
naval demonstration in Turkish waters
lrl case of renewal Of disturbances in
Asiatic Turkey.
Despair Reigns.
In reply to the appeal directed by
Baron Won Calls, the Austrian ambas-
sador, to the Armenian patriarch to ex-
er. his influence to prevent another
outbreak, which it was feared was the
purpose CT the demonstrations the Ar
menian central revolutionary commit
tee is alleged to have planned for this
city, the patriarch says no such dem
onstration is contemplated, although
he says, despair reigns among them
owing to the incessant arrests and ex-
Hing of Armenians."
The patriarch said four hundred Ar
neniaps in this vicinity recently had
been exiled to Anatolia Hairinik, a
local newspaper, suppressed last week
because its editor refused to publish an
article sent him by the Turkish author
!ties, condemning the 'intrigues of the
.Armen;ans," has been granted permits
SIGN to resume publication.
The absence Of news from Zeitoun,
where A1menians are collecting in
strong force, and the failure of the
government to furnish any information
regarding the concentration of Turkish
troops at Marash for advance on Zei-