The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-08
ABDUL HAM1D's EMPTY PROMISES.
HanOtaux's Speech Gives the sultan
a Little Scare.

Paris, Nov. 7.-Advlces received here
from Constantinople show that when the
sultan received report of the speech de-
livered by NJ. Hanotaux. the French for
eign minister, in the Chamber of Deputies.
last Tuesday, in response TO an interpret
lation demanding to know what action
France would take in defense of the Ar
menians, he sent one of his secretaries to
NJ. Cambon, the French ambassador, who
impressed upon the secretary the urgency
that existed for the sultan to adopt meas
ures that would reassure public opinion
and satisfy Europe.
The Turkish ambassador in Paris has
now informed NJ. Hanotaux that the sui
tan has decided upon carrying out the fol-
lowing reforms
The release of prisoners throughout the
empire against whom no charges are pre-
ferred.
To instruct the police that peaceable
Armenians are not to be persecuted.
To convoke an Armenian assembly to
elect patriarch.
To court martial Mazhr Bey for allow
ing Father Salvador to be murdered.
To dismiss the vail of Diarbekir FOR the
share he took in the disorder there
To precisely instruct the wallis to repress
violence.
To undertake the indemnification of the
Roman Catholic converts in Anatolia,
which were damaged during the out
breaks.
To assist the inhabitants OF the districts
which suffered most.
To publish shortly a decree ordering the
prompt execution in Anatoiia of the re-
forms granted in 1895, and the extension
of these reforms to the whole empire.
NJ. Hanotaux thanked the ambassador
for the information, and told him tina:
ne had precisely instructed M. Cambon
to watch the application of these prelimin-
ary measures. In his speech to the depu-
ties in response to the Interpolation which
was submitted by NJ. DenyS, deputy for
Cochin China and supported by MN. Del
afosse, Hubbard and Others M. Hano-
taux said that the Armenian movement
would not have taken upon itself such
an intensity If contact with Europe nad
not imbued certain Armenians with a
desire for independence. The eXcesses of
the Ottoman government, he said, had
furnished legitimate motives for COM
plant, and when the question assumed
an aspect of grave Importance England
understood the danger of acting alone. a
concert was established among the pow
ers, and in October, 1895, an understand
ing was reached with the porte that me
latter would grant reforms, which, uI>
| happily, had not been applied Owing 10
the anarchy which reigned in the admin
istrative circles of Constaptinople trou-
bles ensued and France was bound to use
language, the strength and significance
of which Turkey understood. The pow.
ers, he said, were convinced Of the ne
| cessity of their solid union, but there
must be no isolated action and no inter
| ference with the integrity of the empire
Among the fertile results of the recent
| visit of the Emperor of Russia to Paris
NJ he al
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 whatever race. Blu
violence will not aid the task OF Europe
France does not forget the traditions o.
the religious protectorate which she ex
ercises in the Orient, nor the bonds which
unite her to the Ottoman empire. but she
must proportion her efforts to the exten
of all the tasks deVolVing upon her.