The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-08
EUROPE
She Says She Won't Accept
the Terms of the Powers.
SHE WILL FIGHT FIRST.
The Ministers Favor Resuming
HOstiIities in a Week.

Turkey Notifies the Embassies That she VIM
Not Accept n boundary Line North or sns
saiamvrin River-The Council or mn.
isters, on Monday, Declared the ne,
Eotiations o Failure - Russis unvanos
tho Powers to Tako Drastic Measures,
They Are Agreed to Submit to No Moro Zen
~sense-LOrd Salisbury Favors ouioh AZ,
ton That Will Force the Sultan % %.
eide at Once whether ne VIII Ylela %
FiEht Combined Europo-Every Clristsnr
in Constantinople IL In Real PeriS
Special Gable Despofches to Tine sua
C-oNsTANTTsorIE, July Tin compliance WIN
an irado issued last night o circular was Dc.
spatched to the Turkish Embassies to-day, dc,
claring that the Porte cannot consider the
north of the Salamvria River.
LONDON. July IA despatch to the STANDARDS
from Constantinople says that tho Council e
Ministers, at the close of Mondays sitting, for.
mulated a report declaring that 1t was imposed.
BILE to como to terms with the powers a. represent
ing Greece, and that therefore It would DO betteH
after q delay, to resume hostilitics. Several
kilograms were sent to Edhem Pasha, the com.
mander Of the Turkish army in Thessaly. during
the sitting Of the council.
The Standards correspondent relates utto,.
ances that were recently made by the Sultan 70
a court official. The Sultan declared that he
had nothing to fear from the powers. None Of
them would undertake to apply coercion to him
In Thessaly, where he meant to remain.
He declared that Edhem Pasha was o fool for
not having surrounded the Greeks, and that he
ought to have been in Athens long ago.
But" the Sultan added, "he may be there
yet. I am resolved to wait for O few days, and
then II concessions are not made I shall give the
order to advance. and dictate my own terms as
the A%cropolis. Everything Is ready for immedt
ate action"
The situation at Constantinople has at lasS
reached a crisis where decisive action by tho
powers is imperative. The Sultan has trihed
Will and insulted and fouted the Ambassa.
doris, until even Russia has invited tho othoR
powers to adopt drastic measured.
1t remains to DO seen whether Turkey WI;
accept the terms unanimously insisted" upon N
the mediators or persist in defying Europe. In
the latter case moro time will be consumed 4
deciding the form of coercion to which the
powers will resort
Lord Salisbury favors quick. sharp action.
which would precipitate a crisis and force the
Sultan to decide Immediately whether he VIM
surrender to the d~ictation of the powers or fight
combined Europe.
The situation is made serious by the fact thao
a large party In Turkey favors the latter dss-
perato policy. The most favorable feature In
the fact that the powers seem to be genuinely
agreed to submit to no moro nonsense.
In the mean time every Christian in Constan-
tinople is in real peril. A wholesale, systematic
massacre is possible at any moment. The few
guardships in the harbor are almost powerless
to protect the many thousands Of Greeks, Ar
menians. Englishmen. and other Europeans IN
the city.
THE SUN correspondent in Constantinopl0
writes that there is much anxiety among an
classes OF foreigners. and that urgent represen-
tations are being made to the various Govern
ments to take full precautions and bring the
deadlock to q prompt termination.