The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-11
.FRANC0.TURkISH
DISPUTE AT END
Sultan Has Agreed to All the
Demands.
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C0NSTANS is TO RETURN
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WILL
BE RESUMED AT ONCE.
CONSTANS is TO RETURN

Paris, Nov 10.-The French foreign
Office has announced that the sultan
has signed an trade for the execution
Of his engagements with the French
government, and that the Franco Turk
ish dispute is now at an end
Tewfik Pasha, Ottoman minister Of
foreign affairs, wrote a letter to NJ.
Bapst. councillor of the French embassy
in Censtantinople, notifying him. of the
signing Of the trade, which, while set
Ting the original French demands, ac-
cepts the French demands as set forth
in a dispatch to the Temps from Con-
stantinople Friday. and cabled to the
Associated Press, together with an ad-
ditionai clause by which the sultan
pledges himself to consider as author
lied in full right the foundations. eX-
tensions, constructions and repairs of
the schools and religious and hospital
establishments which France may de-
sire to carry out If the porte is advised
of her intentions and makes no chico
tons within five months.
France has thus far received full sat
isfaction. and NJ. DeIeasse, on the re-
ceipt of NJ Bapst's dispatch this morn
ing, telegraphed him to inform Tewfik
Pasha that diplomatic relations had
been resumed, and that NJ. Bapst
should consider himself as regularly
charged with the affairs of the en-
bassy.
Instructions were also sent to Adj
miTal Caillard at Mitylene to re-em-
bark the marines and to return to Greek
waters, which is understood to mean
the vicinity of the islands of Syria.
! Admiral Caillard viii remain In the
I Levant some time longer. NJ. Constans
/ the French ambassador, will return to
COnstantinople very shortly.
Prevent Future Difficulties.
The additional clause was conceded
at the request of France in order to
! prevent future difficulties, such as the
/ Turkish provincial authorities have
/ often raised, either on their own initia-
/ tive or in consequence of the instigation
1 by the porte. the Temps, which de
| scFibes the ruse as "a brilliant victery
/ for French diplomacy" says:
/ The great merit of the government
was in being able to restrict its action
/ Very serious difficulties might have
/ arisen had France Kept from her re-
! serve. The favorable disposition shown
/ TO our representations abroad has beer
/ due to the fact that the civilized world
/ has had opportunity during the last
/ seven years to observe the progress OF
1 the anti-EurOpean movement in the
I sultan's councils. Frenchmen, Amer
I leans. AustrianS Italians and Britons
/ have az been victimized by the sultan
/ and IFS councillors After the Armen.
/ ian rlassGcres and the successful wal
! with Greece, they thought everything
was permitted to them.
We hope the sultan viii now IN.
| derstand his duties toward the civilized
{ powers and towards his own subjects
unto whom he has taken solemn en-
/ gagements which he has always disTe-
/ garded. Otherwise Europe. which
thanks 70 the energetic action ~
I which France is now able to Areassums
at Constantinople the authority she losi
seven years age. wiz applaud the ini,
tiative which the signatory< powers ot
/ the Berlin treaty are reported to b
about TO take to extort from the sultar
I the execution Of clauses too long fauer
I into disuse"