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M.ConstansLeaves
Constantinople
for Paris.
SULTAN ORDERS
GUNS IN GERMANY
Washington Thinks That Course
of France Has Dissolved the
European Concert.

PARIS, Aug. IA Semi-official note
has been issued announcing that the
Porte, not having carried out its under
takings with regard to the disputed
questions between the French and
Ottoman governments, M Constants
the French ambassador, acting under
instructions from the Foreign Minis
ter of France left Constantinople
communication to the Porte on the sub
ject.
An arrangement had been effected
August 18th and its terms drafted by
the Ottoman Foreign Minister, with the
approval of the Sultan, who had prom
ised M. Constans that the text should
be handed to him August 18th. NJ. Con-
STAINS telegraphed to Paris August 18th
that none of the promises had been full
filled, and NJ. Delcasse, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, August 21st telegraph
ed NJ. Constans that in view Of so fla
grant a disregard of the promises the
negotiations could no longer be con-
tinued, and requested NJ. Constans to
inform the Porte that he had received
orders to leave Coastantinople
On August 23d NJ Constans cornmuni-
Gated with the Porte, fixing August 26th
as the date of his departure. and as
the engagements were still unkept, NJ.
Constans left Constantinople August
26th.
With the departure of NJ. Constans
the relations between France and Tur-
key may be regarded as broken off.
Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador TO
France, has been telegraphed to not
10 return to Paris.
1t was learned today from the best
source that the departure of NJ. Con-
STAINS from Constantinople in the cir
cumstances is tantamount to partial
rupture of Franco-Turkish relations.
The current affairs of the two embas-
sizes can be carried on by the Charge
d'Affaires, but all negotiations of a po-
litical nature will be entirely suspended
demands The French Government
holds that the Sultan has broken his
word. He had promised full payment
of the longstanding indemnities To the
Frenchmen, amounting to 100000
francs, but at the end of last week,
declined to pay the full amount and
offered a reduced sum, which was re-
fused by NJ. Constans. The Sultan
made a final attempt to induce NJ. Con-
STAINS to stay. NJ. Constans had left
Therapia on board the Vautour for
STEAMBOAT, where he was to take the
Orient express. A court chamberlain
arrived at Stamboul in post haste from
the Sultan, begging NJ. Constans to re-
turn to Therapia and promising that
everything would be satisfactorily set
tied. NJ. Constans declined to return.
declaring the time for promises was
past and that it was for the Sultan to
fulfill his undertakings. The French
Government will take no further steps
in the matter, but will wait for the
Sultan to move. 1t is thought the Sui
tan will not allow the present situation
to last very long
CONSTANTIN0PLE CMonday) August
| 26.-The following was the position of at
fairs Immediately preceding the departure
of the French ambassador M Constans:
The Turkish government was showing a
| disposition to regard the French demands
as settled by the trade relating to the
| quays and the Albanian land seizures.
| The French Embassy, in order to pre-
vent misunderstanding, wrote to Tew-
fix Pasha the Minister of Foreign At
fairs, yesterday that France, in addition,
expected the settlement of two other
claims included in the demands made
August 18th, and that unless they were
conceded before noon NJ. Constans would
leave and Munir Bey. the Turkish EN-
bassador to France, would receive his
passports. Instead of yielding, the Turk
ish Government asked for twenty-four
hours delay, and made alternative prop
ositions, which were so unacceptable
that NJ Constans did not reply to them.
During the absence from his post of
NJ. Constans, the French ambassador to
Turkey who started yesterday for Paris,
M. Bapst, councillor of the embassy, will
act as Charge d'Affaires.
WASHINGTON OPINION
WASHINGTON, August Pit is feared
in official circles here that the withdraw
al of the French ambassador from Con-
stantinople marks the dissolution of the
concert of European powers under which
the integrity of Turkey was guaranteed
BY the treaty of Berlin all Nthe great
powers of Europe subscribed to an agree
ment to refrain from any act that would
tend to the destruction of the Ottoman
empire. This action was taken to fore
stall what was conceived to be the de-
signs of Russia to seize on Turkish ter
ritory, and Russia herself was led to
subscribe to the agreement by force or
circumstances.
Although several times severely strain
ed, notably by such events as the last
war between Turkey and Greece, TINS
pact has so far endured without amend
ment. but 1t is apprehended now that II
the action of France is carried out to
the extreme indicated In the dispatches,
each of the other siguatory powers VIII
feel obliged, in self-protection, to disre-
gard the agreement and press upon Tur-
key the vast financial and other claims
that have accumulated in the past quar-
ter of a century. with a result of dis