Waterbury Democrat., 1901-08-27
M. CoNSTANS LEAVES TURKEY.
The Sultan Is Slow in Acceding tt
 Frances Demands.

The Sultan Is Slow in Acceding to
 Frances Demands.
 Paris, Aug PA semi-official note has been issued announcing that the porte not having carried out US unuer, takings with regard to the disputed questions between the French and Ot- toman governments, M. Constans, the French ambassador, acting under ln- structions from the foreign minister or
 France, left Constantinople August 2o, the date named in his last communl-
 action to the porte on the subject.
 Paris. Aug 27.-An arrangement had
 been effected August IT, and it's terms
 drafted by the Ottoman foreign minis
 ter, with the approval of the sultan,
 who had promised M. Constans that
 the text should be handed to him Au-. gust IS.
 NJ. Constans telegraphed to Paris August 19 that none of the promises
 had been fulfilled, and M Delcasse,
 August 21, telegraphed NJ. Constans
 that, in view of so fragrant disregard of the undertakings the negotiations
 could no longer be continued and re- quested M Constans to inform the porte that he had received orders to leave Constantinople. W M On August g NJ. Constans communi-
 cated with the porte, fixing August 26
 as the date of his departure, and as
 the engagements were still unkept M.
 Constans left ConstantinOple August
 26.
 With the departure of M. Constans the relations between France and Fur
 key may be regarded as broken off.
 Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador to France, has been telegraphed to not
 to return to Paris.
 Paris, Aug 27.-The correspondent of the Associated Press was informed to- 1 day from the best source that the de- parture of NJ. Conatans from Constan- tinople under the circumstances is tantamount to a partial rupture of
 Franco-Turkish relations. Munir Bey,
 who is in Switzerland. will be inform 1 ed, as set forth i'll the semi-otficial note i issued this morning that the French government does not desire him to re- l turn to Paris. The current affairs of the two embassies can be carried on by the charges d'afraires; but all ne gotiations of political nature will be entirely suspended until the a sultan yields to the French demands. I The ! French government considers that the sultan has broken his word. He had i promised full payment of the long standing indennities to Frenchmen. amounting to 12,U00O6O francs, but at the end of last week declined to pay | the full amount and offered a reduced sum, which was refused by NJ. Con stans, who waited until yesterday and ! then departed. The sultan made a | final attempt to induce him to stay. NJ. | Constans had left Therapia on board l the Vautour. for Stamboul, where he was to take the Orient express. A court chamberlain arrived at Stamboul l in post haste from the sultan, begging
 M Constans to return to Therapia, and
 promising that everything would be satisfactorily settled. NJ. Constans de | clined to return, declaring the time for
 promises was past. It was for the suI-
 tan to fulfil his undertakings.
 The French government will take no further steps in the matter, but will wait for the sultan to move. s1It is not thought the sultan will allow the pres ent situation to last very long.
 The following was the condition of affairs when the French ambassador left the Turkish embassy: The Turk ish government had been informed that there were other concessions to be made besides the one already
 agreed upon, particularly in regard to the quays and the Albanian land seiz-
 ures. The government was given un- til a certain hour, but instead of com ing to an agreement asked for twen- tv-fOur boIlrS' delay At tbe and of that time she submitted a proposition | that could not be accepted and was n- formed that the French ambassador
 would leave and that the Turkish con-
 su1 would be given his passport fmme- diately.