The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-08-30
SHIPS SAIL TO-DAY
oolxI.YN AND SAN FRANCISCO
LEAVE GENOA FOR BEIRUT.
cYEKIB BEY IS ALARMED.
,,,EY,s AMBASSADOR To U. S.
HuRRIES TO WASHINGTON.

,-.,sse. situation in Turkey.
claims Missionaries Rouse Arme-
,.ns Against MOslems - Asks
what would Happen If He should
roach Negroes to RebeI-Leishman
saxs whole of Turkey Is in state
>, Unrest, That in Parts Turbu-
,.nce Is Equal to InsurrectiOn.
washington, Aug. 29.-The State De-
.or+n,ent to-day. received a cablegram
from Minister Leishman, in which he
stated that advices from the American
,ors,lIs at Harpoot and Beirut were to
.be effect that while the Americans
IN those places are in danger of suf-
tarng from the uprising at any time,
+he situation was not at the time OF
sending the dispatches as grave as
EARLIER reports would indicate.
Mr. Leishman has been instructed to
,otifv the Turkish government that it
must keep the peace and that 1t will
ha held to a strict accountability for
on,, layless acts toward American cit
liens.
The Navy Department has received a
oab1aeram from Rear Admiral Cotton
saving that the Brooklyn and San
francisco will sail from Genoa for
peir,1t Sunday. They have been de-
,aved by coaling. The order for them
70 proceed to Beirut has not been
changed.
Acting Secretary Darling to-day sent
p cablegram to Rear Admiral Cotton
informing him that Vice Con-
snI Magelssen had not been
killed. but had been fired up
on This was done to apprise the
commanding officer of the squadron of
the true situation at Beirut.
Italians Cheer Machias.
Genoa. Italy, Aug. 29.4IThe United
states gunboat Machias left here to-
4 dav, bound for Beirut. She was salut-
ed by the Italian warshlps, whose
n crews wished her good luck.
The Brooklyn and San Francisco ar
n rived to-day and are being fully equip
ped to leave here Sunday morning
Hay Back at Washington.
Washington, Aug. 29.-Secretary of
n State Hay returned to his desk in the
State Department to-day. Mr.. Hay
said that while uprisings in Turkish
dominions were more or less chrome,
the present state of affairs assumes
Il the proportions of an insurrection of
considerable magnitude.
He would not disclose the text of the
cablegram received last night from
a Minister Leishman, but said that the
minister's advices were that the err
roneous report of the assassination of
Mr. Magelssen was due to the use of
the wrong code number and not to any
error in translation.
The information given In the cable
gram was that the governor called at
the consulate and offered prompt ac-
ton, and would make every effort to
find out and punish the would-be as
assin. Mr.. Leishman further advised
the Secretary that several of the con-
Sulates have reported to their govern
ments that the condition of the city
Of Beirut at the present moment is
unsafe
Leishman Wants a Ship.
Washington, Aug. 29.-The full text
Of the dispatches of Minister Leishmar
bearing on the Magelssen mat
Ter with the exception Of
the one received last night
saying that the vice consul had not
oeen killed. was made public to-day
The substance of these dispatches has
oeen published with the exception OF
lhis paragraph in a message dated
Aug %:
The troubles in Macedonia become
worse and more extended each day, and
outside of the necessity which may
present itself of sending a ship to Bel
Il rut to force proper (word omitted), it
seems to me advisable to keep a shir
within easy range of Turkish waters
IN order to be in position to more fully
protect American citizens should the
revolution assume more alarming pro-
PORTIONS "