The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-28
SEMI-OFFICIAL NOTE
Issued in Paris JuStifleS tho
 Actions of C0nstanS.
Abdul Hamid's Envoy to the French Capital is Notified Not to Re- turn There History of
 the Trouble.

Paris, Aug. 27.-A semt-oficiai n0W has been issued announcing that tho Porte, rot having carried out it's uri- dertakings with regard to the dis puted questions between the French and Ottoman governments. M- Com stans, the French Ambassador, actina under istructions from the Foreign Minister of France, left Constantino- pie August 2s, the date named in hi last communication to the Porte on tht subject.
 An arrangement had been effectet August r and its terms drafted by the Ottoman Foreign Minister witl the approval of the Sultan. who had promised M. Constans that the text should be handed to him August IS. M. Constans telegraphed to Paris August 19 tha. none of the promised had been fulfilled; then M. Delcasss Minister of Foreign Affairs. August | 21. telegraphed M. Constans that ir view of so fragrant disregard of the Undertakings the negotiations could no longer be continued, and requested M. Costans to inform the Porte that hs lyhad received orders to leave Constan.. tinople.
 on August 2s, Nj. Constans commu- nicated with the Porte, liking August I 26 as the date for his departure, and as the engagements were still unkept, 1 M. Constans left Constantsnople August z6. With the departure of M. Con- stans, the relations between France 1 Fft,, laar a | off.
 1 Munir Bey, the Turkish Ambassador 1 to France, has been telegraphed not to return to Paris.
 The Correspondent of the Associated 1 Press was informed today from the
 pest source that the departure of M. ! Constans from Constantinople, In the
 circumstances is tantamount to par i tial rupture of French-Tufkish rela-
 tions. Munir Bey, who is in Switzer- land, will be informed. as set forth in l the semi-official note issued this morn I ing, that the French Government does l not desire him to return to Paris. | The current affairs of the two Em-
 bassies can be carried on by the charges, but all negotiations of po- 1 litical nature will be entirely suspended | until the Sultan yields to the French ! demands.
 The French Government holds that
 the Sultan has broken his word. He
 had promised full payment of the long, standing indemnitics to the French men, amounting to 12.leO,000 francs. 1 but at the end of last week declined | to pay the full amount and offered a
 reduced sum. which was refused by M.
 Constans, who waited until yesterday and then departed.
 The Sultan's trade giving satisfac-
 tion in the quays question was at first | taken as indicating he would accept
 the entire French claims, but M. Con-
 stans telegraphed Sunday that the
 Sultan was still holding out against
 the payment of'three Frenchmen, dat
 ing back many years and amounting to several million francs for which M. | Constans demanded a settlement, and
 declared. he would leave Constantinople l yesterday unless the matter was set- | tied.
 The Sultan made final attempt to induce him to stay. M. Constans had
 left Therapia on board the Vautor for
 StambouL where he was to take the
 Orient Express. A court chamber-
 lain arrived at Stamboul in post haste from the Sultan. begging NJ. Constans
 to return to Therapia and promising that everything would be satisfactorily
 settled. M. Constans declined to re-
 turn, declaring the time for promises
 was past and that 1t was for the Sul-
 tan to fulfill his undertakings.
 The French Government will take no
 further steps in the matter, but will wait for the Sultan, to move. It is
 thought the Sultan will not allow the present situation to last very long,