The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
TURKEYS SULTA
YIELDS TO FRANCE.
Pretends to Be Anxious to
Carry Out Reforms in
Armenia.
Repeats Former Promises That
Were Forgotten Soon After
Being Made.
SUSPECTS TO BE RELEASED,
Indemnity for Church Property De.
stroyed and Instructions for
Protection of Christians.

PARIS, FRANCE, Nov. 7.-Advices re-
ceived here from Constantinople show
that when the Sultan received report of
the speech delivered by NJ. Hanotaux, the
French Foreign Minister, in the Chamber
OF Deputies last Tuesday in response to
an Interpolation demanding to know
what action France would take in defense
OF the Armenians, he sent one of his Sec
retaries to NJ. Cambon, the French EN-
bassador, 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. Hanotaux 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 instruct the police that peace
able Armenians are not to be prosecuted,
10 convoke an Armenian assembly to elect
patriarch; to court-ma artial MAzhr Bey
for allowing Father Salvador to be MUIR
dered; to dismiss the Vail of Ciarbekir for
the share he took in the disorders there; to
precisely instruct the Walls to repress
violence; to undertake the idemnifcation
of the Roman Catholic converts in Ana
tolia which were damaged during the out
breaks, to assist the inhabitants of the
districts which suffered most, and to pub
ish shortly decree ordering the prompt
execution in Anatolia of the reforms
granted in 1895 and the extension of these
reforms to the whole empire.
NJ. Hanotaux thanked the ambassador
for the information and told him that he
had precisely instructed NJ. Cambon to
watch the application of these preliminary
measures. In his speech to the Deputies
in response to the Interpolation, which
was submitted by NJ. Denys, Deputy for
Cochin China, and supported BY NJ. de la
Fosse, Hubbard and others, NJ. Hanotaux
said that the Armenian movement would
not have taken upon itself such an in
tensity if contact with Europe had not
imbued certain Armenians with a desire
for independence. The excesses of the
Ottoman Government, he said, had fur
nished legitimate motives for complaint,
and when the question assumed an as pect
of grave Importance England understood
the danger of acting alone. 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 administra-
tive spheres trouble ensued and France
was bound to use language the strength
and significance of which Turkey under.
stood.
The powers. he said, were convinced of
the necessity of their solid union, but
there must be no isolated action and no in
reference with the integrity of the en-
pre-.
Among the fertile results of the recent
visit of the Emperor of Russia to Paris,'
NJ. Hanotaux said, "may be mentioned
the precise exchange of views in regard to
Armenia and the perfect community OF
ideal which exists in United Europe will
give the Sultan to understand the neees-
sity OF his assuring the security of all his
subjects of whatever race. But violence
will not aid the violent task of Europe.
France does not forget the traditions of
the religious protectorate which she exer-
cises in the Orient, nor the bonds which
unite her to the Ottoman empire, but she
must proportion her efforts TO the extent
OF all the tasks davolving upon her."