The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-19
SULTAN IS AWED At LAST
Will Make a. Effort to Stop Blood
shed in Asia Minor.
FRIGHTENED BY THE SHIPS
British and Other Foreign Fleets Have
Created the Proper Impression Upon
the Porte and 1t is Probable that
Order VIII DO Restored.

London, Nov. 1s-It is learned from
well-informed circles here TO-DAY tnat
the assembling of the British and FOR
eign fleets in Salonica Bay Is having
a good effect upon the Turkish govern
ment. and that the sultan mas ueter-
mined to make earnest efforts 10 put
stop to the bloOdshed in ASA Minor
Sir Philip Currie, the brltish aIhoss- ss.,
sador to Turkey. has left the city for
Constantinople, via Vienna, after con-
sulting at length with the Marquis OF
Salisbury and having an audience with
Queen Victoria. 1t Is understood that the
MARQUIS of Salisbury has received as
surances that the Sultan has sent COM
missioners to Asia Minor. instructed TO
nut in force as soon as practicable the
reforms insisted upon by the powers,
and that beyond the assembling OF the
foreign fleets OFF Salonica, the powers
will take no further steps at presen,
being desirous of giving the Turkish
government every opportunity possi-
Bile Of restoring order in the disturbed
districts, without having recourse to
measures which might add to the state
Of anarchy prevailing.
The following telegram from Con-
stantinople was received this morning
by the Anglo-Armenian association:
1.-THE Armenians are being massacred
everywhere in Asia Minor. over loo,-
900 are dying of starvation and expo
sure. The Sassun work of relief Is
closed. For Gods sake urge the gov
eminent to stop the most awful events
of modern times. The Porte Is power
less, as all the telegraphs are under
the control of the palace officials, who
have melted the massacre throughout
Anatolia."
A dispatch received from Rome to-
day says that advices which have
reached there from Constantinople an
nounce that the agitation against the
Christians of northern Syria is extend
ing and that massacres have occurred
near Aleppo.
Conference Of Powers.
Constantinople, Nov. II, via Sofia,
Bulgaria, Nov. 1S.-AnOther conference
of the representatives of the powers
took place yesterday at the of1cial resi-
dence Of the Austrian ambassador.
The work Of calling out the army re-
serves continues slowly, the main diff
Guilty being to find proper equipment.
ammunition, and supplies for the men
when they are assembled. About 14O
battalions of reserves have now been
called to the colors.
notwithstanding the Sultan's prohi-
bition against the printing of the Mar
QuiS or SALISBURY recent speech at tne
Mansion House, London. or extracts or
references to 1t, the police have been
obliged to tear down revolutionary
placards which contain references to
the British premier's utterances. FIRE.
quent arrests continue, and 1t is report
ed that q number Of members of the
Young Turks party have been secretly
executed. The Sultan is reported to be
alarmed to the verge of insanity by the
assembling OF the foreign fleets at Salo-'
MICA Bay and has sent urgent tnes-
sages to the Wallis of the disturbed dis
tricts ordering them to suppress the
disorders A number Of special COM
missioners have been hurriedly sent
from this city to various parts of Asia
Minor, armed with full authority TO use
all means to quell the revolutionary
outbreaks. The British fleet is re-
ported here as being further reinforced