Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-05
THE POWERS
Are Thought to Have at Last Reach
ed an Agreement as to Turkey.
The Gar Has Felt English Pressure.

(Copyrighted. 1896, Associated Press)
London. October 4.-The past week
has been full of rumors that the powers
have agreed upon concerted action in re-
eard TO Turkey. bu, there appears TO be
little 10 Justify the reports, although
.te~a are indications that the Eastern
b1rcnetar is rising in England. While
tie national protest against Turkish
bqrb3ri-v continues unabaJed, thsre IS
enc fact o,iceable-that public feeling
which formerly distinctly favored iso-
LACED action upon the part OF England
has now yeered in the direction OF JOINT
action with the powers, and especially
with Russia.
This feeling is undoubtedly the out
come Of the Cars visit 10 the Queen,
and there is an impression that the in
terviews between the Gar and the Mar
Cuis of Salisbury cannot have failed to
result in good effect. 1t is said that the
British premier assured the Car thai
Great Britain did not desire 10 DO any
thing 20 endang r the peace Of Europe;
but. al the same time, he is reported 10
have dwelt upon ,'he impossible situation
in Turkey.
Thus. while nothing positive has been
done. the interviews have paved the way
10 an understanding, the effect of which
may ere long be felt at The Yildiz Kiosk.
II is stated that the Queen and the
Prince of Wales have bO-h used their in
luence in the direction Of a general An
g'0-Russo raprOchment. and there has
been q complete and significant change
in .he attitude Of many Russian newspa-
p-rs in favor of Great Britain.
A dispatch from COnsJantinopls de-
scr.bes Samboul as being in state OF
siege. The precautions at night, 1t ap-
neqrs. are rigorous. The fire engines
are KEEP; ready to set al work al a mo-
menrs notice. as the authorities are con-
WINGED that the revOluuonlsts are deCer-
mined 10 ST fire TO the city. The Cnrls-
tians are in dread of another uprising
of na mob. and the respectable Mussul-
mans share. in the feeling of The anxiety
OF The Christians.
It has been announced that the Tur-
kfsh government mas entered into nego-
Ha,ions with the Armenian revolution
9rv committees with the visw of obtain
ing a cessation of dynamite outragesl
The Porte granting a general amnesty to
Armenians and promising to carry out
reforms throughout Asia Minor. LittleN
faith. however, is placed in Turkish
promises.
The Standards Rome correspondent
saws that owing 10 government pressure
the Sultan has consented that Italian
papers should enter Turkey.
This correspondent also says that he
Duke of Sermoneta, the Minister OF For
e.gn Affairs. and Admiral Brim, the
Minister of Marine. after a conference
las. night despatched the barbejte snip
Re Umber,o 90 Syria. The Re Umberto
is an ironclad of 1925 tons dispiace-
me1. She carries four 67-tCn guns,
eight 6-.nch quick fire guns and forty
seven guns of smaller Calibre and eight
torpedo tubes.
The Vienna correspondent Of the Daily
Mail declares that the agreement Of the
/ powers for the settlement Of the Turkish
I p-ohlm, which this correspondent an
n0uDced last week. he had good author
/ i,y for publishing, includes the forma-
/ ton of an Armenian zone in the Turk
D lSN NtA NalN hA Ni4c DdS-S Ol tut JtNLSA
/ pa.e in Russia, the powers guarantee
ing the safety of the Armenians therein,
with the idea that the zone would be-
I come the germ Of new Armenian state.
"Ihs active operations" this CORES
/ pc1den proceeds by saying. will be un-
der,ake1 by England, France and Rus
sia. while Italy will cooperate If neces-
s3ry. As far as England is concerned.
! the harbor Of Smyrna VIII pay an i'm
portart part in the final settlement"
The COnstantinOp,e correspondent of
the Chronicle says that the Ottoman
bank and The credit Ly0nnais are send
ing large quantities Of securities to Paris
for safety. He says that the American
and English ladies' in Constantinople
Ire helping the women and children in
he suburbs. and hundreds attend the
American mission house, where each re-
ce.ve four francs and a bundle of ap-
p2rel