The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-23
TURKEY And EAGLE
An Alliance Formed to Close
the Dardanel1es in
Case of War.
ENGLAND MUCH WORRIED
Minister Terrell Has Not Yet Got
a Permit for the Red
Cross Agents.
ENGLAND MUCH WORRIED
BIZ Gable to the United Press.

LONDON, Jan %. 1S96.-A despatch
from constantinople to the Pail Mall
Gazette says:
An offensive and defensive alliance
has been concluded between Russia and
Turkey The basis of the treaty is on
the lines of the unkiar-S -Skelessi agree
inent. The treaty has been signed here
and its ratification has been exchanged
at St Petersburg between Aaraj Pasha
and the Czar.
NJ Cambon, French Ambassador to
Turkey, had an audience with the Sui
tan on January q which lasted two
hours. This tends to show that France
IS In all probability member of the new
alliance"
The Gazette's correspondent is believed
to be inside of the British Embassy The
unkiar- -Skelessi agreement dates back to
1893 and amounts to a reduction of Tur-
key to the position of a vassal State
The treaty bound the Russian and
Turkish Governments to mutually assist
one another to resist foreign aggression
and to. help each other in case of inter-
nal dangers. AS Turkey was at the
time of theA conclusion of the agreement
IN state of utter collapse, Russia waiv-
ed the matter of assistance promised by
Turkey and received instead permission
In the event of Russias being at war to
close the Dardanelles to Warships of all
nations The Western powers refused
to recognize the treaty, which was soon
tacitly abandoped.
The Pail Mall Gazette guaranteed the
reliability of the sources of information
OF its representative at Constantinople
The Foreign Office officials profess. to
know nothing whatever of the alleged
offensive and defensive alliance between
Russia and Turkey and attach no inn
portance to the statements concerning
II published in the Pail Mall Gazette
The Stock Exchange market opened
favorably today, but afterwards relapsed
offensive and defensive alliance between
Russia and Turkey. American railroad
stocks opened strong, but receded and
tually without movement.
The standard publishes a despatch
from Constantinople under the date of
Ministers assembled at meeting Tues.
day evening, the alleged occasion of
which was the receipt by the Porte of a
telegram from Shakir Pasha, the Imperial
Commissioner appointed to carry cut the
reform in Armenia, reporting that the
Armenians are reduced to the last ex-
tremity and are being decimated by
hunger and cold and are committing rev.
aolutionary acts out Of sheer despair.
Izzet has been directed to formulate a
reply to the letter written to the Sultan
by Queen Victoria.
The Porte has given out the information
that two Armenians believed to be mem
bers of the Armenian Revolutionary Com
mittee, have murdered the Armenian Bish-
op of Boghes
The CORES spondent Of the, United Press
set Constantinople telegraphs under the
date Of January % as follows:-
stand that 'f United States s'tS Minister Ter
rell has not received the assent of the
Porte to his pressing demands for. the
Society into Asia Minor for the purpose
menfans. The European Embassies in
the work Of the Red Cross soeiety and
the British Embassy, finding that Russia
objected, to the Society,s undertaking
agement in order to preserve the unity
OF the powers, it was alleged"
A telegram received here. today from
who were delegates to mediate between
the Turks who are beseging .Zeitoum.
and the Armenians, who are holdding the
them had all of their baggage stolen en-
A letter received here from Karmash
beaten and repulsed near the Hot
Springs. The commanding officer of the
Turkish soldiers placed the irregular
men in the front ranks and the reserves.
AS they were marching against the Ar
menians a terrific explosion occurred and
many of the soldiers We're blown to
% ased The Tppks say tnal that danes sud
denly burst from the earth. Other ac-
counts confirm the surnise that dyna-
were caught in a defile and a large num-
ber of them were killed. The Turks af-
terWards succeeded in capturing the bar
racks and cut off the water supply from
a a r