The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-06
Conflicting Reports Published About the
Progress Made.
Charged That the Sultan Has Adopted
Most Unyielding Attitude.
The ambassadors of the Foreign
Powers, However, Are Hopeful
That the Negotiations Will be Con-
Guided Within a Weeks Time.

LONDON, June 5.-Copyrighted, 1897,
by the Associated Press.-Confiicting
news is published about the progress of
the peace negotiations at Constantine
pie. On one side the Sultan is said to
have adopted a most unyielding atti-
tude, and on the other hand, he is de-
clared to be showing a coneiliatory dis
position, and it is claimed that he set
tlement of the questions in dispute is
only a matter of a few days.
The Associated Press, however, learns
that the ambassadors at Constantine
are hopeful that the negotiations Will
be concluded in about a week, with
Turkeys acceptance of the peace ne
gotiations proposed by the Powers.
There is now little doubt that the Sui
tan has decided to agree to the evacu-
alton of Thessaly, and the Turkish pub
lie is being prepared for this step.
Numbers of Greek Thessalians are
hiding in the mountains, being afraid
to return to their homes, fearing mas
sacre and preferring death by starva-
ton, exposure and disease.
The impeachment of the leading spir-
it's of the Ethnike Hetairia or National
League of Greece, is mooted at Athens,
where it is said that ex-Mayor Melas
intends to resign the leadership of the
society. His excuse for the society s
conduct is that it was understood that
Great Britain would assist Greece in
her struggle against Turkey.
The Parliamentary Commission, which
has been inquiring into the Transvaal
raid, is assailed by a storm of denunci-
alton, owing to its decision not TO press
the production of the missing cable
message between DR.. Rutherford Har-
ris and Cecil Rhodes and certain par
ties in England. The newspapers of all
shades of opinion view this decision
with the greatest distrust and insist
that the reputation of Great Britain is
involved in a thorough probing of the
matter
The weekly newspapers are equally
emphatic in summing up the work or
the committee.
The Speaker" says: 1.-The commit
tee threatens to finish the proceedings
in an ignominious and discreditable
collapse. Unless Chamberlain can vim
dictate himself, it is his duty to re-
sign"
The Spectator" says that it is diff
cult to believe the committee ever
meant business.
The most slashing attack comes from
the pen of William Stead, who, al
though pro- Rhodes, urges that full
light be turned on the whole matter.
He heads his article: flushed Up"
and proceeds in moderate language to
describe the proceedings as a most
shameful conspiracy which suggests
falsehood to conceal the truth and mis-
lead the nation, declaring that the
committee is deceiving the public, in
according to Mr.. Stead, ought to have
owned that he winked at the patriotic
but revolutionary enterprise"
Continuing, Mr.. Stead says: Mr..
Chamberlain, no doubt, would have had
to resign, but it would only have been
a temporary eclipse, and his position
with the country would have been
stronger than ever. Instead of this
honest course, the watchword seems to
have been given as Lie, lie, lie .
The King of Siam, Chalangukorn H.,
who is now in Rome on his way to the
jubilee festivities, after leaving Eng
land will proceed to New York in his
own yacht, the Maha Chakskri. He
will cross the United States, staying a
sufficient time in different American
cities to enable his yacht to proceed
from New York to San Francisco, where
he will embark for home. The date of
the Kings arrival at New York is not
fixed
Japan has ordered a battleship of H.
600 TONS to he bl1ilt on the Clyde She
will be a duplicate of the British battle
ship Jupiter The Jupiter is 14,900 tons
and 1900 indicated horse power