Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1896-09-24

down tnelr arms Dy NONemU6T lSI
Spain would grant complete home
rule to the island. Sails said am.
nesty would be granted to every
man who had been in the rebel.
lion, and that Spain would recall
General Weyler and name a
representative of the Crown in
Cuba who would be acceptable to
the insurgent leaders. Mr.. Huan
agreed to lay the proposition be-
fore the junta, but told Sails it
would hardly be accepted, as
nothing short of absolute indie
pendence would satisfy the Gu
bans now.
THE EASTERN "EsTIoN.
BLUE JACKETS TO GUARD EMBASSIES
BRITAIN CAN'T ACT ALONE
Owing to the Turkish Govern
ment's communication to the en-
bassies of the powers regarding
rumors of another Armenian out
break here, the embassies have
deputed the foreign consuls to
authorize the police to enter
foreign houses when necessary
and arrest Armenians for throw
ing bombs or shooting there
from.
The offer of the Turkish Gov
eminent to furnish the embassies
with guards has been declined,
the foreign officials preferring to
rely on the guards of blue jackets
from the war ships of the powers.
1t is feared in high quarters
that a Mussulman movement is
afoot against the Sultan, and
military measures on an extensive
scale have been adopted.
The guard of Turkish troops on
duty at Yildiz Palace, composed
of four battalions of A!banians,
was forcibly disarmed in the
presence of a large body of troops
and replaced by five Hraskier
battalions.
Lord Hugh Cecil, Member of
Parliament for Greenwich, and
fifth son of the Marquis of Sails
bury, in replying to an invitation
to address an indignation meeting,
says that lamentable as it is, it
appears to be the fact that there
is strictly no hope for the Armenir
ans till the feeling abroad at least
approximates the excitement in
England. He trusts that this may
soon happen.
The Berlin newspapers have
Constantinople dispatches which
record the formal dismissal of the
servants of the palace and the
foreign officials of the arsenal,
showing the nervous tension, and
the intrigues. Rodran Pasha,
Governor of Constantinople, has
been dismissed and the Sultan
brothers have been arrested.
Although the Sultan still re-
fuses permission in response to
the demand of the powers that six
ironclads should have free pass
age of the Dardanelles, a pro-
clamation has been read in the
Mosques which is evidently cal
culated to prepare the population
for this event.
Sir Charles Dixie, who is an
authority on European politics
and Oh British imperial defense,
has written a long letter on the
Armenian agitation in which he
refers to the provoking ficklcness
of English public opinion on the
varying phases of the Eastern
question and warns the country,
looking to the weakness of the
fleet and the unpopularity of Eng
land, against isolated action
against Turkey.
He continues by saying: "The
feet could force the Dardanelles,
but only with heavy losses at the
risk of entailing general war, in
which our national existence
would be at stake. Forcible &C.
ton elsewhere than at CONSTANT
nople might aggravate the chances
of massacre at Constantinople
and entail the partition of the OF,
toman Empire between the pow,
ers, by which we would have much
to lose and nothing to gain, ex-
cept most dangerous inheritance
impossible to defend"
Grand RaIIann AsccnI