Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-05-20
AFTER THE FESTIVAL
Then VIII the Sultan Talk to the
Powers.
HIS ANSWER IS EXCEEDINGLY COOL
Would be Ready to Discuss Matters After
the Great Bairam Festival which
Ends on Sunday Night
The Latest.

Copyrighted 1897 by the Associated Pressl
London, May IL THE sultan's reply 10
the note of the ambassadors at Constan-
tinople, offering media tion saying he
would be ready to discuss the matter af-
ter the great Bairam festival, which ends
on Sunday night, justifies the fear that
the powers have drawn genii out of the
war that will not be easy to get back
Abdul Hands answer is cool almost 10
the point OF insolence. Tt is. that OF a
sovereign with powerful army behind
him and he is disposed to treat the
powers cavaiierly.
Articles published in the semi-ofhcial
press of the continent show that the in
crease il the prestige Of the sultan is
the chief concern of the European cab
inets, and that the. prospects of an eff
fective enforcement of general reforms
for the Turkish empire are thereby rele-
gated to the very distant future
The Journal Des Debats declares that
the result of the war has been 10 place
Turkey in position she has not held
for the past half century, adding:
Her tremendous military effort is
SClS III EXCESS Ol WHdC the
against Greece required. 1t was done to
refute the allegation of decrepitude, and
to demonstrate to the sultan's own SUBJ
jects and to those of the smaller states
and to the great powers that Turkey is
able to hold her own against other dam
gers than war with Greece"
The British, Russian and Australian
newspapers echo these remarks, and it is
generally felt that this fact will have to
be reckoned within the negotiations up
on the conditions of peace.
In the meanwhile, the postponement
Of the sultans reply until after the
great Rariam festival is Interpreted as
meaning that his majesty intends that
his army shall continue its victorious
advance until every stragetic point on
the OthryS mountain range is in the
hands of the Turks, and that only then
will Edhem Pasha receive orders to stop
fighting.
The resumption of fighting by the
Greeks in Epirus is regarded as a fool
ish move. and Only furnishes Turkey
with a plausible motive for refusing an
armistice. 1t also binders the progress
of the peace negotiations.
The chanceliors are also occupied with
pay the war indemnity which Turkey
seems certain to demand. M Delyannis,
the former Greek premier, in his news,
paper. sanguinely argues that Greece
cannot be expected to pay an indemnity,
because the Turks declared war Off
cially without provocation.''
This view Of the Question is not shar-
ed elsewhere, and international COM
mission to administer the finaces of
Greece on the lines of the similar Turk
ISL commission is mooted. The Greek
commission would, it is proposed, sit at
Athens and take over the Greek customs
for the purpose of paying the Greek
debt, and possibly for the war indemn-
;ty.
PREVESA SURRENDERS.
Athens, May IA private dispatch
from Arta just received here says that
the Turkish garrisor at Prevesa, at the
northern entrance of the Gulf of Arts,
which has been besieged by the Greek
land and sea forces almost from the out
break Of the war. has sent the Greek arch
| bishop and five notabilities of Prevesa to
| the commander of the besieging Greek
army with message saying that the
Turkish force is ready to capitulate to the
regular forces of Greece
LOSSES AT PHILLIPPADIA
London, May IA dispatch to the
Sunday Times from Athens says: In
Fridays battle at Phillippadia, fifty men
were killed and twenty-eight officers
| wounded
| BOMBARDING NIKOPOLIS.
| Athens, May 1.-THE Greeks have been
| bombarding N1kopolis since early this
morning.
THE GRECIAN HORSE LAUGH
Athens, May 17.-The aides to the
crown prince, recalled from Thessaly. up
or their arrival at Piraeus were received
| with ironical cheers.
| THE PORTE DENIES.
Constantinople, May 1.-THE Turkish
government declares that there is no
truth i'm the report that 1000 Macedoni-
an insurgents have captured pass form
ing part Of the principal line of commu-
nicsioE of the Turkish army, and that
they are advancing towards ElasSona
and are preparing TO unite their forces
| with the bands under Daveli, Zermas
and other Macedonian chiefs. According
to the Porte all these statements are alb