The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-30
TURKEYS GRIP ON THEsSALY.
THE OTTOMAN GOVERNMENT Play
ING A DOUBLE ZANE.

Tho sultan Pleads Fear of the IsIa-
iu.r on Retaining the Province.
cermany and Russia Both AIIesed
10 Be Backing the SuItan-The
Car said to Have Negotiations on
Eoot Re,stive to Eventual Admin
t.t,ntfon of Part of Asia Minor.
ropvright, 1897, by the Associated Press.
London. May 29.-The negotiations at
Constantinople have entered upon the an1-
ious stage owing to doubts as to the real
intention of the sultan, whether he means
10 resume the war or not. A spirit of
Cancellation is shown at the Yildiz Kiosk
towards the ambassadors, but the Turk
ish government is playing a double game
and is melting public opinion secretly to
onpose the abandonment of Thessaly
The sultan affects to be- greatly afraid
Of the Islamlc party and the attitude of
tbe Grand vizier, as shown by the report
which he presented to the sultan on Sat
urlav last, urging that the whole of Islam
was fully determined to retain Thessaly
and rendering his resignation in case Alb
dul Hamid differed with these views, has
strengthened the suspicion that the sui
tan is prepared to plead that Islamic pres
sure is the reason for not yielding to the
powers.
Adyices from Thessaly show that agents
of the Turkish government have been call
ing upon the Thessalian Mussulmans and
Spanish Hebrews TO protest against the
evacuation Of Thessaly, and that the few
Greeks who have not fed dare not refuse
to join in the movement.
The sutan's show of resistance to the
powers is generally attributed to German
backing. but it is also rumored that ne
eorations between Russia and Turkey
have been proceeding this month relative
to eventual administration by Russia of a
portion of Asia Minor, inclding Rich, in
the southeastern corner of the Black sea,
and the territory up the Joruk river.
No confirmation has yet been received
Of the reports that the embassies there
have received word that the position of
the Greek royal family is so critical that
the king is practically barricaded in his
palace, and is making preparations to
leave Athens. in order to escape the fury
OF the populace.
The Jacobites are preparing to celebrate
the marriage of her royal highness Prln-
cess Mary Louis Theresa and his royal
highness the Prince of Calabria by a ban
Quet on White Rose day, June 10. The
Princess Mary is, after her elder sister, the
direct representative of the Stuart line
and the Prince of Calabrla is the son of
the eX-King of Naples, whose portrait
was drawn by NJ. Alphonse Daudet as the
King of Illyria in his Les Rose in Exile
The manuscript of a new comedy by ".
S Gilbert is in the hands of Miss Fortes-
que, who is waiting for a favorable op-
portunity to produce 1t. If she is unable
to find a suitable London theater she win
play it during her next provincial tour.
An International motor car race from
London to birmingham and back has
been arranged for next Tuesday by the
proprietors of The Engineer, who have Of
fered prizes amount TO 100 guineas. 1t is
expected that about fifty motor carriages
will take part in the contest, and the
conditions require that they must com.
plete the race, which begins and ends at
the Crystal Palace, within fifty hours, the
distance being about 115 miles.