Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-12-19
TURKEY GIVES In
THE SULTAN COMES DOWN OFF HIS
HIGH HORSE.
ing With the Demand of the
1--WE for Permission to FAX
Dnrdnnelles-A Conspiracy to De-
pose the sultan.

- poSG hS uAtnu
Boston, Mass, Dec. ia CORES
pondent in Coustantinople In a letter
received here today describes the con-
dition under which, In his opinion, re-
lief for the oppressed Armenians must
be distributed, advising either an indie
pendent American commission for the
work or n acting in conjunction with
an English organization Of similar
character.
40 insure effectual work." the
writer says, lit will be essential for
the United States government to take
under official protection the men who
distribute. Otherwise 1t will not be
permitted by Turkey. A relief com
mission should be organized I'm Ameri-
ca on an Independent basis to have at
least four superintendent Of distri-
button, one at Alexandria to go to
AiDtab, Marash and Oorfa, reaching
the case also Of the needy In the
Taurus mountains; another at Trebi-
zond and Erzeroum, with a view to
reaching the regions Of Bitlis and
Van; and a third at Sassoun for the
regions from Marsovan to Harpoot.
The fourth should go to Diarbekir and
Mardin. There will undoubtedly be a
large amount Of aid sent from Eng
land. Probably 1t will be we'll for the
American commission to make some
alliance with those In England In or
der to cover the ground without lap
ping. There Is need of the greatest
haste In getting some effective relief
into the field. The people will be dy-
ing OF exposure and starvation very
nAAn A. r,.r- -
by every means In their power to
force the survivors to become Mo-
hammedans. They are Offering aid on
these conditions in some places. and
In others are picking up the deso,ate
widows and orphans and simply TAX
Ing possession of them In order to
make them Mohammedons without
any will Of the captives."
Constantinople, Dec. 12.-The long
drawn out controversy between the
ambassadors OF tlla powers and the
sultan over the o., lion of admission
of additional guard ships for the pro-
lection of the embassies was settled
to-day by the issuance OF an trade
granting the necessary firmans to per-
nit the guardships to pass the Oar
danelles. The demand was first made
upon the sultan on Nov. 10, and
scarcely a day has passed since then
without its being renewed in a more
or less peremptory manner The in-
genuity displayed by the Turkish gov
eminent in evading "A direct answer
TO the demand, or when forced to an
swer, the effective pleadings put forth
for delay had almost brought the mind
of Europe to the conviction that the
demand would never be complied
with. Meantime days and weeks
passed by without any action and the
condition of things in ~COnstantinople
that brought out the demand has al
most passed. The final triumph OF
the powers in forcing a compliance
with their demands seems a barren
one. and the long-sOught permission
TO double the regular guardshipS for
the embassies, nov that it is obsGined,
seems hardly worth taking advantage
of. Rumors which have apparent
foundation in fact here Of a whole
sale conspiracy which may have for
its object the deposing of the sultan.
1t is known that q number of promt-
nent Armenians here and several mil
itary otncers of high rank i'll the
Turkish army and navy have been
closely watched for months past, but
In spite of this surveillance, they have
succeeded In escaping from the cOun
try. That the conspiracy was Of a
most important nature may De judged
from the fact that among the fugitiyes
In the sultan's ~aide-de-camp. HasSan
Djemi Pasha, who, 1t is believed Va
TO have led the disaffected of the i'm
perial guards into the palace and
seized the sultan.
Copyright. by the Associated Press,
Constantinople, Dee. 15.-There was
a disturbance In STEAMBOAT yesterday
and Ii caused the spread Of rumors sc
alarming that Galata and Pera Were
o o In a state Of panic, and serious
outbreaks were threatened. This, In
view OF the passage through the Oar
daneiles or the British gunboat Dryad
and the Italian %gunboat Archimede
the extra guardships for the British
and Italian embassies, formed the
basis for the report that the rioting
predicted by the Yildiz Kiosk courtiers
had actually commenced, but, happily
the trouble was not of a serious ma
ture, although the Armenians, as usu
al, are accused of having attempted tc
pithS doooe an upiiSiuS VI thC poP"
lace.
The panic, however, was a most ex'
traordinary occurrence, and is striking
evidence of the and appre'
hension which prevail here as one OF
the results of the long-dra wn-out nego'
tiations between the powers and the
sultan regarding the suppression Of the
outbreaks in Asiatic Turkey, and the
admittance of the extra guard ships
into the Bosphorus. The least note OF
alarm now sufiices to produce
widespread Terror,
and II proof was needed that the pow
ers were right In their insistance upon
having additional protection for the
foreign population OF Constantinople
and its vicinity, 1t was furnished by
these occurrences.
Simmered down to bare facts, the
cause of the panic was. or the face OF
1t, a fierce quarre! between two Ar.
menians in the Stamboui quarter. dur.
ing which they came to blows. Finally
one of the Armenians drew a revolver
and fred at his opponent. The shot
was the signal for an uproar, a STAN
made of the gDectatOrs, and, eventually,