The herald., 1895-12-12
THE SICK MAN OF EUROPE
Has Not Been Cured by Trade
Dosing
THE ARMENIAN OUTRAGES
Have Shown How Treac herous Is
European Accord
Christian Refugees Crowding Into the City
OF Van-Reiief Work Is Ham,
pered by the Turks

Associated Press Special Wire.
CoNsTANTINOPLE, Dec. 10, via Sofia, Bull
garia, Dec. .11.-Copyrghted, 1898, by the
Associated Press. - The two incidents
which have constituted the center of sem
sational interest, viz, the refuge of Kusti-
chuk Said Pasha, ex-grand vizier, in the
British embassy, and the refusal of the
Sultan to grant the firmans for the pass
age through the Dardanelles of the addi-
tional guard dships demanded by the pow
ers, are practically relegated to history
through their settlement by the return of
Said to his own residence and by the final
granting of the frmans by the sultan.
How unimporlant these incidents are of
themselves is indicated by the fact that
the tense condition of the public mind is
not abated by their closing, and the watch
ful game of diplomacy is seen to 60 on as
much as before. The intimate connection
of the peace of Europe with the fate of the
Turkish empire is not to be forgotten, nor
is it to be lost sight of that this peace is
dependent, as it has been for the past IL
years, upon the accord of the great powers
as to the methods and limits of the coer-
cion which shall be exercised upon the
''sick man" of Europe. How great labor
and distress is necessary to the mainten-
ance of this accord has been indicated by
the long drawn out conduct of the guard
ship incident, the sultan refusing TO con-
cede single step voluntarily and leaving
the powers to their own resources to patch
up their complicated jealousies and con-
tiics of interests before an agreement
could be reached to unite in a demand
upon the sultan. The outrages upon the
Armenian Christians seem to be receding
into the background. except as they con-
stitute the technical case upon which the
powers base their action at international
law for the settlement of larger questions.
The visit of M. Nelidorf to the sultan on
Sunday and his prolonged audience with
him, as first exclusively cabled to the As
sociated Press, seems to have settled in
his mind at least that on the question of
guardships at least the powers we're in ac-
cord, 1t has Developed that M. Nelidorff
assured the sultan that unless the firmans
for the guardships were granted the pow
ers would present an ultimatum on the
subject to the porte.
IA. .Nelidcrff appealed to him on behalf
OF the csar to otiyiete the necessity of such
a step by granting the hrmans. --Kassia
evidently convinced the sultan that his
game of delay was up.
Said's return to his own house was made
in the carriage of Sir Philip Currie, the
British ambassador, accomp anied by the
chief dragoman of the embassy. On the
same vening that he returned the secret
police who had been watching the embassy
were withdrawn.
Said Pasha wrote Sir Philip Currie let
ter of thanks. in witch he said that after
forty-three years of prblic service and five
in the position of grand vlzier. his health
was broken and he was unable again to
accept the Office of grand vizisr. He then
mentioned the written assurances.
Finally. as Said's request to leave the
country was still ungranted, and as he felt
bound to attest his appreciation of his SOW
ereign's personal assurances. he returned
to his own house. the sultan consenting to
grant his wish to be unemployed in an un-
official post and to enjoy complete rest
and liberty.
Sir Philip has reiterated the latter's de.
sire on behalf of the British government.
1t is feared, however, that Said Pasha will
suffer from palace intrigues. f...