Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-24
PANIC AND PILLAGE l
Country Around Adrianople
 Ravaged by Rebels.
MUSSULMAN INHABITANTS FLEE.
Russian Fleet Has Sailed For Sevas-
 top0I-The Porte Made a Rec- ord Reply to the Cxar's s Firm Demands.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 24.-The Russian Black Iea squadron, which was ordered to Turkish waters and which anchored at Iniada, eastern European Turkey, in order to support Russia's demands on the sultan grow ing out of the assassination of M. Rost- kowski, Russian consul at Monastir, has been recalled to Sevastopol, the squadron's point of departure.
 On the receipt of favorable reply from St. Petersburg M. zinovieff tele graphed the order of withdrawal to Admiral Krieger, commanding the Russian squadron at Iniada.
 M Zinovieff, Russian ambassador here, announces that the sultan has yielded completely to Russia's de- mands. Tn addition to the condemna- ton and execution of M. Rostkowski's murderers and the punishment of their accomplices, those officers who made disrespectful allusions to, Nj. Rostkow ski are dismissed from the service. A careful search is being made for the persons who fired at the consuls car riage.
 All the officials, twenty four in num- Der, whose names were handed to the porte as objects of unfavorable com ment by the Russian ambassador are relieved of their posts and handed over to justice. All private persons mentioned in the same list as guilty of various offenses will likewise be tried.
 Ismail Had Pasha, the chief of po- lice at Palanka, province of Uskub, is restored to his post. The persons under arrest for accusing Mussulmans of out | rage and abuse are liberated
 Hussein Milmi, inspector general of Macedonia, is reprimanded. The chief of gendarmery and police at Salonika are replaced.
 The porte's reply accepting the Rus sian demands was delivered twelve hours after the presentation of the Russian note, promptitude most unu- sual in the history of Turkish diplo- macy. Tewfik pasha, the foreign min ister, and Naum Pasha thereupon call l ed on M. Zinovieff, the Russian ambas- sador and requested the withdrawal of the Russian squadron from Turkish 1 waters on the ground that its presence 1 tended to encourage the instruction. I It is said that the sultan appealed to the German emperor to use his good offices at St. Petersburg in favor of the recall of the Russian squadron. l An extraordinary council of minis 1 ters assembled at Yildiz kiosk to con sider the situation in the interior and discuss the military measures rendered necessary by it. The sultan has con suited the French ambassador on the situation.
 News from Adrianople represents the l situation in that vilayet as verging on panic The Insurgents have destroyed telegraphic communication at several points between Adrianople and Kirk. Kilise, thirty-five miles to the north. east, and have burned and pillaged sev. eral Greek and Mussulman villages, in. cluding Kayakli and Kizilji, southwest of Kirk -Kilise. Troops have been dis patched to the environs of Adrianople. Two sailing vessels crowded with Mussulman refugees from villages or l the Black sea coast have arrived al Kayak, at the entrance to the Bospo l rus.
 "A strong feeling prevails among the 1 Mussulmans at Salonika and MonastiI on account of the execution of M. Rost l kowski's murderers. The remains oi the murdered consul were shipped al
 salonika to Odessa with great pomp or l board the Russian embassy guardshiI Teretz. The Turkish civil and military l authorities attended the ceremony.