The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-06
TO EVACUATE THESSALY
TURKEY PREPARING TO YIELD TO
THE DEMANDS OF THE POWERS.
ConstantinOpIe Police Ordered to sup
nexing the Greek Province.


Especial Gable letter.
LONDON. June 5.-Conhicting news is
published about The progress Of the peace
negotiations at Constantinople On one side
the Sultan is said to have adopted a most
Unyielding attitude. and on the other hand
he is declared to be showing conciliatory
disposition, and that the settlement of the
questions in dispute is only matter Of
few days. The Associated Press, however,
learns that the ambassadors at CONSTANT
nople are hopeful that the negotiations viii
be concluded in about a week, in the sense
of Turkeys acceptance of the peace con-
ditions proposed by the powers. There is
now little doubt the Sultan has decided to
agree to the evacuation of Thessaly, and
the Turkish mind is being prepared for
this step. The police of Constantinople
have been ordered to confiscate the leaflets
which being circulated demanding the
annexation of the conquered territory as a
duty devolving on the Sultan. The war
songs are also being suppressed in order
to stiffe the fanaticism of the lower classes.
1t is considered probable that the con-
clusion of peace between Turkey and
Greece will be followed by d complete
change in the Turkish Cabinet as the pail
ace clique will endeavor to saddle the Min
istry with all the responsibility for the
peace conditions. Moreover, a strong feel
ing exists among the MuSsulmans against
the Ministry, especially against the Navy
Department, owing TO the deplorabe con-
dition of the Turkish navy and the in
activity of the Ottoman fleet.
The news from Thessaly is that the Turk
ISL troops, which at first pillased and COM
mitted other excuses in the Greek vii
lagos is now under stringent discipline.
The object of this change OF policy by the
Turkish authorities, according to the
Athens newspapers, is merely to gain the
signatures of the inhabitants in favor of
In the meanwhile twenty thousand Mace
dCnian peasants, who had crossed the
Mountains into Thessaly, have occupied the
abandoned Greek villages and are waiting
to gather the corn If ii ripens before the
peace negotiations are concluded. In fact,
the seizure of the Thessalfan harvest seems
to be a reason for the Sultan endeavoring
to protract the peace negotiations.
Numbers of Greek Thessalians are hiding
in the mountains of kalkis and Erochori
and on the island Of Skiaathos being afraid
to return to their homes, fearing massacre,
and preferring death by starvation, expos
The Impeachment of the leading spirits
of the Ethnike Hetairia, or National
League of Greece, is mooted at Athens,
where it is said that ex-Mayor Melas in
tends to resign the leadership OF the So
ciety. His excuse for the society's con-
duct is that it was understood Great Brit
ain would assist Greece in her struggle
against Turkey.
The sea armistice was signed to-day by
the Turkish and Greek delegates.
A conference lasting two hours was held
at COnStantinOple to-day between emDdSSa-
doris of the powers and Tewdk Pasha, the
Turkish minister of foreign affairs, at
which the memoranda relative to the recti-
ficaton of the frontier, to the capitulations
In the case of Greek subjects in turkey
and to idemnity, prepared respectively py
Count Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador;
M Cambon the French ambassador, and
Sir Philip Currie, the British ambassador,
were presented. These memoranda will be
submitted to the Sultan for his consldera-
ton
Socialist Expelled by Soldiers.
PARIS, June 5.-There was a dramatic
incident in the Chamber of Deputies to-day.
During the discussion of the labor troubles
at La Grand Combe in the Department of
the Gard, noted for its coal mining, glass
works and zinc smelling furnaces, M. Ger
ault Richard q Socialist deputy. referred
to some of his colleagues as police spies.
The Chamber thereupon passed a, vote to
censurc the deputy and to temporarily expel
him from the house. NJ. Richard, however,
refused to leave, and the president of the
Chamber, NJ Brisson, suspended the sitting
and sent for the guard on duty. A moment
or so later squad of eight soldiers entered
the Chamber of Deputies and the colonel
in command placed his hand on the Shout
der of the Socialist deputy, who thereupon
consented to go with the officer saying he
yielded only to superior force. AS the dep
uty neared the entrance of the Chamber
The revolutionary cry was loudly applauded
by the other Socialists present in the house.
Irishmen Don't Love Their Queen.
MANCHESTER, England, June 5.-At the
annual meeting of the Irish National
League of Great Britain here to-day Mr..
T. P. OConnor, member of Parliament for
the Scotland division of Liverpool, and
president of the league, made a speech urg-
ing that the present is not the time for
recrimination and the members of the
league should devote their energies to liV
ing issues. There was a large attendance.
A resolution calling on the Irish to abstain
from taking part in the diamond jubilee of
Queen Victoria was presented and carried.
Mr.. O'Connor remarked that nothing could
induce him to attend the jubilee festivities
to be numbered among those who re-
joiced over a reign which has been most
disastrous to Ireland. An amendment to
the resolution declaring that the condition of
ireland was due, not to Queen Victoria, but
to the legislation of the men selected to
make the laws was rejected.
TraNIer and 23 Lives Lost.
LONDON, June 5.-A dispatch from
Dieppe says that the French trawler
Liberte recently engaged in the Iceland
fisheries, has been lost with twenty-three
members of the crew.
Barri0s IA Dictator.
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