The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-08-25
RUSSIA ENFoRcEs HER DEMANDS
ON TURKEY AND WiTHDRAWs
HER wARsHiPs.
MEASURES TAKEN BY PORTE
PUNISHMENT TO BE Melted OUT
TO MuR1ERERs OF THE RUS
SIAN CONSUL.

st. Petersburg, Aug. 24.-The Rus
sian Black Sea squadron, which was
ordered to Turkish waters and which
arrived at Indiada, Eastern European
Turkey, Aug. 10, to support Russia's
demands on the sultan growing out of
the assassination of M. Rostkowski,
Russian consul at Monastir, has been
recalled to Sebastapol, the squad
ron's point of departure.
The recall followed a notification
from the porte that the sultan had or
dered all the Russian demands to be
complied with.
The dispatch received from M.
Zinovieff, Russian ambassador at
Constantinople, announcing that the
sultan had yielded completely to Rus
sia's demands, was as follows:
"The porte has taken the following
measures to fulfill the demands of the
Russian government: In addition to
the condemnation and execution of
M. Rostowski's murderers and the
punishment of their accomplices, those
officers who made d~isrespectful allu-
sions to M. Rostkowski are dismissed
from the service. A careful search is
OCli5 l1A0uC III Liz pCloOAS VIII AlO0
at the consul's carriage. All the Of
ficials, t%wenty-four in number, whose
names were handed tic the porte as
objects of ~unfavorable comment by
the Russian ambassador, are relieved
of their posts and handed over to JUS
tice. All the private persons mention
ed in the same list as guilty of various
offenses will likewise be tried.
"Ismal Haki Pasha, the chief of po-
lice at Palanka, province Of Uskub, is
restored to his post. The persons un-
der arrest for accusing Mussulmans
of outrage and abuse are liberated.
"Hussien Hilmi, inspector general
of Macedonia, is reprimanded. The
chiefs of gendarmerie and police at
Salonica are replaced.
Orders Appointment of Foreigners.
"The porte has ordered the appoint
ment of the gendarmerie of several
foreign officers whose names will be
announced later, and finally all the
military, civil and judicial authorities
have received the strictest orders to
take measures to secure order and
tranquility"
The news has reached st. Peters.
burg from Brussels that the porte has
requested Belgium to nominate four
officers for the Turkish gendarmerie.
The porte's reply accepting the Rus.
sian demands was delivered twelve
hours hours after the presentation OF
the Russian note-a promptitude most
unusual in the history of Turkish
diplomacy. Tewfik Pasha, the foreign
minister, and Naum Pasha thereon
called on NJ. Zinovieff, the Russian
ambassador, and requested the with
draWal OF the Russian squadron from
Turkish waters on the ground that its
presence tended to encourage the in.
%surrection. On the receipt of a favor
able reply from ST. Petersburg, M
Zinovieff t~elegraphed the order Of
withdrawal to Admiral Krieger, com
manding the Russian squadron al
Indiada. A rumor has been current
that the sultan appealed to the Ger
man emperor to use his good Offices
at st. Petersburg in favor of the re
call Of the Russian squadron.
An extraordinary council of minis
tiers assembled at the yildiz kiosk
Saturday to consider the situation in
the interior and discuss the military
measures rendered necessary by it
The sultan had on Friday sought the
advice of the French ambassador.
News from Adrianople represents
the situation in that vilayet as vergine
on a panic. The insurgents have de
stroyed Geographic communication al
several points between Adrianople an6
Kirk-Kilise, t~hirty-five miles to the
northwest and have burned and pill
LACED several Greek and Mussulmar
villages, including Kavakli and Kizilji
southwest of Kirk-Kiliz. Troops have
been dispatched to the environs o.
Adrianople.
DEFEATING THE TURKS.