The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-12-13
CLOSING o. o N THEPO ORTE
POWERS REFUSE TO HEED.
THE SULTAN'S PLEA.
Russsa Austria, France and Germany De-
clJgs 10 Do Anything to Break the Com
NThe sultan Threatens to Break
plomatic Relations. & ~ 81.


CONsTANTINOPLE, Dec. 81 When
Great Britain threatened to force the
passage of the Dardanelles if the
firmans for the passing of extra guard
ships were not granted, the Sultan ap-
pealed personally to Russia, Austria,
Germany and France, begging them
not to press their demands, calling
their attention to the efforts lie was
making to restore order and prevent
further outbreaks, and dwelling
strongly upon the danger of an upris-
ing of the Mussulmans throughout the
empire if he were subjected to such a
slight, holding that the mere fact of
sending the additional warships to the
Bosphorous would be an intlmation
that he was not considered by the
powers to be capable of maintaining
order in his own dominions. The Sui
tan believed, and the palace coterie
has been apparently equally convinced,
that Russia would not act
in accord with Great Britain and tnat
therefore Russia, France and even
Germany might be counted upon, if it
came to a decisive crisis, to oppose any
active interference by Great Britain.
In fact, this notion was almost gen
eral in the political world and all
assertions to the contrary were re-
ceived with polite smiles of increduli-
ty 1t became positively known
to-day, however, that Russia is really
IN accord with the powers, and that
the sultan need look for no sympathy
from the czar or his advisers in any
thing in any way tending to thwart
the determinatio of the powers to
have order restored throughout the
Turkish empire and measures taken
for the protection of the lives and
property of all Christian SUBJECTS of
the sultan. t&gg ~ st
Prince Tobanoff Rostovsky, tile Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs, replied
at first that he would sound the
cabinets of France, Germany and
Austria on the subject,it being appar-
emily concluded that it was useless to
again question Great Britain or italy
He did so, but receiving nothing but
unfavorable replies he later informed
the Turkish ambassador at st. Peters
burg that he could see no reason to
..
The Austrian minister for foreign
affairs, Count Goluchowski, was even
more explicit than Prince Tobanoff
Rostovsky, for he gave the Turkish
ambassador at Vienna to understand
clearly that a complete understanding
existed among the powers and that
Turkey should not persist in her pres
ent dilatory policy regarding the de-
mands of the powers for extra guard
ships or in pushing the work of
restoring order in Asatic turkey and
preventing further outbreaks
The reply Of M. Barthelot, the
French minister for foreign affairs
was almost identical with that of
Prince Tobanof Rostovsky.
Finally, through Prince Hohenlohe
and Freiherr Marschal Won Bieber-
stein, Emperor William gave to the
Turkish ambassador at Berlin no con-
ISOLATION at all.
Thus, apparently, the Sultan was
shown that he no longer had hacker
in Europe, but the question of admit
ting the extra guardship is still unset
tied, and this still leaves open the
question whether Great Britain has or
has not given the Sultan until Satur-
day in which to issue the frmans, as
was reported yesterday, but denied
last night by the diplomatic corps and
Turkish government circles. But Sir
Philip Currie undoubtedly seems to
have tlpde some important commune
catiq sNsae nature of which is not
knotT ~. sTewfik Pasha, the Turkish
mimi steraef foreign affairs.
A Vienna dispatch says that tele-
gram to the Turkish embassy there
saws that the Sultan has resolved to
break all diplomatic relations if the
powers force the Dardanellas
CorDett Talks.