Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-28
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VI. constants. THE FRENCH AN
BAsSADoR. LEAVES THE
stLTAN's CAPITAL.
sULTAN'S PROMISES NOT KEPT.
TURKISH AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE
NOTIFIED NOT TO RETURN
TO PARIS.


and Ottoman governments. NJ. Con-
STAINS, the French ambassador. acting
under instructions from the foreign
minister of France. left Constantine
Pile August &c, the date named in his
last communication to the Port on the
subject.
An arrangement had been effected
August II, and its terms drafted by the
Ottoman foreign minister, with the ap-
proval OF the Sultan, who had promised
NJ. Constans that the text should be
handed to him August Is.
NJ. Constans teiegraphed to Paris Au-
gust 10 that none OF the promises had
been fulfilled, and M. Deleasse, minis
ter of foreign affairs, on August Il tel
egraphed NJ. Copstans that. in view OF
takings, the negotiations could no
longer be continued. and requested NJ
Constans to inform the Porte that he
had received order to leave Constanti-
nople.
On August % NJ. Constans communi-
Gated with the Porte, fixing August &c
as the date for his departure, and as
the engagements were still unkept, Nj.
Constans left Constantinop,e August
26.
Ambassador Not to Return.
With the departure of NJ. Constans,
the relations between France and Tur-
key may be regarded as broken off.
Munier Bey, the Turkish ambassador
to France, has been autographed not to
return to Paris.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press was informed to-day from the
best sources that the departure OF M.
Constans from Constantinople is tam
tamount to a partial rupture of Franco
Turkish relations. Munier Bey. who is
in Switzerland, will be informed. as set
forth in the semi-official note issued
to-day, that the French government
does not desire him to return to Paris.
The current affairs OF the two embas-
sizes can be carried on by the charges
d affaires, but all negotiations of po-
litical nature will be suspended until
the Sultan yields to the French de-
mands
Time for Promises Gone by.
The French government holds that
-. Sal. mord He
had promised full payment of the long
standing indemnitles to the Frenchmen,
amounting to twelve millions francs,
but at the end of last week declined to
pay the full amount and offered re-
duced sum- which was refused by Nj.
Constans, who waited until yesterday
and then departed. The Sultan made
a final attempt to induce him to stay.
NJ Constans had left the Rapia on
board the Vatour, for Stamboul, where
he was to take the Orient express.
court chamberlain arrived at Stamboul
in post haste from the Sultan, begging
NJ. Constans to return to the Rapia and
budt tFNi ehiho "o'f' ~
satisfactorily settled. M. Constans
declined to return, declaring the time
for promises was past and that it was
for the Sultan to fulfill his undertake
ings.
The French government will take no
further steps in the matter. but will
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thought the Sultan will not allow the
present situation to last very long.
Inst Proposition Ignored.
ONSTANTINOPLE, August o.
The following was the position of af
fairs Immediately preceding the depar-
ture Of me French ambassador, M. Con-
STAINS:
The Turkish government was show
ing a disposition to regard the French
demands as settled by the trade relat-
ing to the quays and the Albanian land
seizures. The French embassy, in Or
der to prevent a misunderstanding
wrote to Tewfik Pasha. the minister of
foreign affairs, yesterday, that France
in addition expected the settlement of
two other claims included in the de-
mands made August H. and that I'M
less they were conceded before noon
to-day NJ Constans would leave and
Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador to
France, would receive his passports.
The porte, instead of yielding, asked
for "a hours delay, and made alterna-
tive propositions which were so I'M
acceptable that M. Constans did not
reply to them.
May End In Disruption.
WASHINGTON, August Pit is
feared in official circles here that the
withdrawal of the French ambassador
from Constantinople marks the disso-
luton of the concert of European pow
ers under which the integrity of Tur-
key was guaranteed. By the treaty of
Berlin all the great powets Of Europe
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