The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-12
The Porte Informed That No
Extra Guardships Will Enter
the Bosphorus.
THE PLIGHT OF SAID PAsHA.
Thwarted in His Intention of Exil.
ing Himself From His Native
Country.

from Urumi Yah, under date of December
TO- say it is now certain that the Ham
adieh cavalry destroyed 200 villages in the
vilayet of Van. Eight hundred homeless
Armenians are flocking to the city of Van.
According to these dispatches, the Gov
ernment is doing nothing to prevent out
RACES upon Armenians.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Dec. 1.-THE Neue
Freie Presse has dispatch from Con-
stantinople saying that the representatives
of the foreign powers have informed the
Sultan that they do not intend to make
practical use of the trmans granted for the
passage of the additional guardships into
the Bosphorus.
LONDON, ENG, Dec. lit is learned
at the Admiralty that the dispatch boat
Cockatrice sailed on the 11th to join
the squadron at Salonca. The Dryad is
expected to arrive on the morning of the
18th.
A dispatch from Constantinope, dated
December II, says that Said Pashas re-
turn to his residence was contrary to the
public expectation. He drove thither in
the carriage of Sir Philip Currie, the
British ambassador, accompanied by the
dragoman OF the British embassy. On
the same evening the secret police who
had been stationed around the embassy
were withdrawn.
Said Pasha, in his letter to Sir Philip
Currie, dwelt upon his forty-three years of
public service, including five vizierates,
and said that now that his health was ex-
hausted he was unable to bear the burdens
of the post the Sultan wished him to
! assume. His Majesty had afterward Of
farod in ho
palace to direct important affairs of state
Unhappily, his health did not allow him
to do this. His purpose in going to the
embassy was to escape the embarrassment
and try to leave the country with his
| family.
Said Pasha intended to pass one night at
the embassy, in which belief he wrote i'm
mediately to the Grand Vizier, expressing
| the hope that his request would be favor
ably regarded. On the same evening,
however, the Sultan sent his Foreign Min
lister and the President of the Council to
Sir Philip Currie and informed Said that
his Majesty continued to hold his former
Grand Vizier in high favor and had entire
confidence in his fidelity.
On the following day the Sultan gave
similar assurance to The other embassies,
expressing desire that Said should not
leave the country. While grateful to his
Majesty Said was compelled to consider
the intolerable intrigues of the palace and
consequently felt bound to reiterate his re-
quest to leave Turkey.
Despite this the Sultan on thirteen occa-
sions seht his chamberlains and his secre-
tary to reassure Said of his Majestys wish
that he abandon his intention. The Sultan,
moreover gave written assurances, for
which reasons he remained five days at the
embassydespite hisintention to remain only
one night. But on the one hand his request
had not met with a favorable reply, while
on the other hand he felt obliged to attest
his appreciation of the sentiments and as
surances of his sovereign.
The letter concluded with an expression
of gratitude to Sir Philip Currie and his
wife. Throughout the communications
with the palace Said Pasha had full lib
erty of action.
The Standard tomorrow will print q
Constantinopie dispatch saying that the
Porte is absolutely deserted and that the
Ministers are living day and night in the
palace, where confusion reigns supreme.
The correspondent of the United Press
in Constantinople telegraphs under date
of December 10 that the Porte has granted
exequaturs to Major Williams and Major
Bulman, the newly appointed British
Vice-Consuls at Van and Sivas, and also to
a. British Vice Consul at Harpoot. The
Vice Consuls will start for their posts i'm
mediately.
In the appeal made to the Sultan by M.
Nelidoff, the Russian Embassador in the
name of the Czar, he strongly advised the
Sultan to concede the demands for extra
guardships in order to avoid magnifying
the matter. as he assured his Majesty the
demand would be persisted in by the
powers.
The negotiations for Government loan
of 6 ,OO0, coo, secured bv the revenues on
Turkish tobacco, have fallen through.
It is learned. the correspondent says,
that Said Pasha, in reply to the Sultan's
demand that he leave the British embassy
and return to his home, informed his
Majesty that he was willing to live in any
place outside of Turkey that the Sultan
might appoint. and would also pledge
himself to keep entirely aloof from poll
tics, being, in view of the circumstances,
extremely anxious to leave the country
with his family. To this the Sultan re-
piled that he was not willing that Said
should put himself outside of his (the Sui
tan's) power, as he was the custodian of
too many secrets
The result was that Said received the
assent of the Sultan to his living anywhere