The record-union., 1896-11-08
He Promises to Do Much to Reassure
Public Opinion.
Prisoners Against Whom No Charges
Have Been Preferred to be Re.
leased, Peaceable Armen;ans Not
to be Prosecuted, Violence to be
suppressed and Assistance to be
Given Those Who Suffered During
the Outbreaks.

PARIS, Nov. 7.-Advices received
here from Constantinople show that
when the Sultan received a report of
the speech delivered by NJ. Hanotaux,
the French Foreign Minister, in the
Chamber of Deputies last Tuesday in
response to an Interpolation to know
what action France would take in de-
tense of the Armenians, he sent one of
his Secretaries to NJ Cambon, the
French ambassador, who Immediately
pressed upon the Secretary the urgency
that existed for the Sultan TO adopt
measures that would reassure public
opinion and satisfy Europe.
The Turkish ambassador in Paris has
now informed NJ. Hanotoux that the
Sultan has decided upon carrying out
the following reforms: The release of
prisoners throughout the empire against
whom no charges are preferred; to in
struct the police that peaceable Arne-
mans are not to be prosecuted; to con-
woke an Armenian assembly to elect a
Patriarch: to courtmartial Mazhr Bey
4or allowing Father Salvador to be mur-
fered; to dismiss the Vail of Diarbekir
for the share he took in the disorders
there; to precisely instruct the Wallis to
repreSS violence; to undertake the in
Identification of the Roman Catholic
converts in Anatolia which were dam
aged during the outbreaks; to assist the
inhabitants of the districts which suf-
fered most and to publish shortly de-
cree ordering the prompt execution Of
these reforms to the whole empire.
NJ. Hanataux thanked the Embassa-
dor for the information, and told him
tnat he had precisely instructed NJ.
Cambon to watch the application of
these preliminary measures.
In his speech to the Deputies in re-
sDonse to the Interpolation which was
submitted by NJ. Denys, Deputy for Co
chin China, and supported by NJ. de la
Fosse, Hubbard and others, NJ. Hano-
taux said that the Armenian movement
would not have taken upon itself such
an intensity if contact with Europe had
not imbued certain Arelenians with a
desire for independence. The excesses
of the Ottoman Government, he said,
had furnished legitimate motives for
complaint, and when the question as
sumed an aspect of grave Importance
England understood the danger of act
ing alone. A concert was established
among the Powers. and in October,
1895, an understanding was reached
with the Porte that the latter would
grant reforms which unhappily had not
been applied. Owing to the anarchy
which reigned in the administrative
spheres trouble ensued, and France was
bound to use language the strength and
significance of which Turkey under
stood. The Powers, he said, were con-
inced of the necessity of their solid
union, but there must be no isolated ac-
ton, and no interference with the integ-
iity of the empire.
Among the fertile results of the re-
cent visit of the Emperor of Russia to
Paris, M. Hanotaux said, may be mem
toned the precise exchange of views in
regard to Armenia, and the perfect
community of ideas which exists in
united Europe will give the Sultan to
understand the necessity of his assuring
the security of all his subjects of what
ever race. But violence will not aid ths
difficult task of Europe. France does not
forget the traditions of the religious
protectorate which she exercised in the
Orient, nor the bonds which unite her
to the Ottoman Empire, but she muss
proportion her efforts to the extent OF
all the risks devolving upon her.