The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-16
RUSSIA THREATENS TURKEY.
RACK SEA SQUADRON ORDERED
TO OTTOMAN WATERS.
Firm Demands for Redress for Murder OF
ConsnI ~ Inconsistencies to tho
Insurgents That This Docs Not Indicate
Change OF Political Programme.

Consul ~ Monastar--Notico to tho
Insurgents That This Docs Not Indicate
Change OF Political Programme.
Special Cable Dispatcher 10 THE SUM-
ST PETERSBURG, Aug. iS.-The Official
Wessenaer reports that M. Zinoviefl. the
Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, has
received a telegram from Sebastopol saying
that a squadron of the Black Sea feet has
been ordered TO sail for Turkish waters.
The Messsnger adds that Count Lamsdorf,
the Russian Foreign Minister. telesraphed
10 NJ Zinovief on Aug. II, stating that
neither the Sultan's expression OF regret
nor the visit of Prince Ahmed to the embassy
was adequate satisfaction for the murder
OF Consul Rostkowski at Monastir. When
NJ Stcherbina, the consul at Mtrovitza,
was murdered there last April the Car took
into account the fact that the murderer
was an Albanian whose tribe was in rebel
lion. The recent Monastir outrage was not
similar and it necessitated the severest
punishment.
Count Lamsdorf added that the Car had
ordered that no promises made by Turkey
should be accepted. He demanded the
instant punishment of the murderer and
also of all the civil and military authorities
responsible for the crime He also de-
manded that the Vail of Monastir be BAN
ished, and the punishment Of the Turkish
officers about whose conduct the Russian
Consul at Uskub complained. Other SINH
lar demands were made, including one for
the immediate release of the peasants on
whom the Turks had perpetrated atrocities.
Count Lamsdorf telegraphed on Aug. IL
to the Russian agent at Sofia that the In
pera Government could not obtain ade-
quate satisfaction for the murder and had
already taken measures to secure redress
and had also demanded the severe punish
ment Of the civil and military authorities
guilty Of atrocities against Christians.
Count Lamsdorf told the agent to make
sure that Russia's vigorous attitude toward
the Porte was not interpreted by the Bull
gsrian Government or the Macedonian
Committee as indicating a change in the
political programme. He said:
1t would he a dangerous error to con-
slider the present action as fostering the
Macedonian Committee, whose continued
criminal activity is hindrance to the
pacifcation of the vilayets and therefore
to the introduction of the proposed reforms.
Russian consular reports show that peaceful
Christians suffer as much from revolu-
tionary bands as from the Turks. All
circumstances prove the necessity for vigor-
GUS condensation by Bulgaria to suppress
the trouble in the Balkans
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Aug. lS.-When Hilmi
Pacha visited Nine. Rostkowski to express
the coincidence Of the Porte and offer Pc
c1lniary compensation for the murder of
her husband she declined to accept the Offer.
She also returned the Turkish decorations
belonging to herself and her husband.
A steamship sailed yesterday to take
the former Vail OF Monastir to Tripoli,
whittier he has been exiled.
ATHENS, Aug. l5.-Premier Rail-. adj
dressing the representatives of the Powers
to-day, declared that the Greeks and the
Turks in Macedonia could not long endure
The provocation of Bulgarian operations.
Reprisals must follow and the peace of the
Balkans was thus endangered.
LONDON, Aug l5,.The insurrection in
Macedonia continues to cause serious
anxiety to all the great Powers The
probabilities, however, still favor tho
localization OF the trouble. virtual
condition Of war already exists, and the
situation ia likely to become rapidly worse,
eliminating in great atrocities and a
heavy sacrifice in life
Premier Balfours view that the RESPONSE
bility for the outbreaks ia thus far chiefly
upon the insurgent population, and not
the Turkish troops, is undoubtedly cor
rect, although this has called out violent
thn YS,,I
garian sympathizers in London.
There remains always the important
element OF the uncertainty OF Russia. No
body knows when it may suit her plans
10 find a Cause for intervention and leading
to general war She has such cause in
the murder of her Consul if she chooses
to use il.
All the signs. however, point to the con-
trary. Even the movement of her Black
Sea feet is not likely TO signify anything
further than wholesome pressure on the
Sultan to do his utmost to control the
Macedonian situation.
Russia's stern warning to the BulgariAns
will not be misinterpreted. Her action
hears every evidence of sincerity.
The best of all reasons for the belief that
il is Russia's determination not to permit
the Macedonian situation to assume inter-
national complications is the present status
Of the Far Eastern crisis. 1t is still a matter
Of prime Importance for Russia that she
shall have her hands free TO deal with any
developments in that quarter. II, there
fore, serious trouble arises in the Balkans
In the near future il will not be Of Russias
seeking.
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