The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-15
Russia Orders Black Sea Squad
ron to Turkish Waters
To Emphasize Her Demand for
Complete Satisfaction.
ROSTKOVSKI'S MURDER
Cannot Be AtOned For by Ex-
pressiOns of Regret
Or Visit of SuItan's Son to the
Ambassador.

St Petersburg. Aug. ia squadron
of the Russian Black sea has been or
dered to sail for Turkish waters. Noti-
tication of this move has been telegraph
ed from Sebastopol from the Russian
ambassador al Constantinople.
The dispatch of the squadron is in
tended to emphasize Russias intention
of exacting complete compliance with
her demands as to satisfaction for the
murder by a Turkish gen d arme of her
consul at Monastir.
The following kilograms exchanged
between the foreign Office and Russian
Representatives abroad show the first
steps taken as a consequence of the
murder Of NJ. Rostkovski. the Russian
consul at MoDastir:
On August II, Count Lamsdorff, the
foreign minister, telegraphed to M Ii
novieff, Russian ambassador at Con-
stantinOple. that neither the sultan's ex-
preston of regret. the visit of Prince
Ahmed, the sultan's son, to the ambas-
sador, nor the expressions of sympathy
by the grand vizier and other high
Turkish dignitaries was considered to be
adequate satisfaction for the murder of
M. Rostkovski. When M St Cherbina.
NcAi-'AA
Mitrovitza, continued Count Lamsdorff,
the czar took into account the fact that
the murderer was an Albanian, whose
tribe was In rebellion against the gov
ernment. The outrage at Monastir,
however, was of quite another character
and called for the severest punishment
The car, therefore, ordered that no
promises on the part of the Turkish
government should be accepted but that
demands should be made as follows:
The immediate severe punishment of
the murderer; the arrest and exemplary
punishment of the person who fired at
NJ. Rostkovskis carriage; the immed-
late production of positive proofs that
the vail lof Monastir has been act
ually banished; the immediate severe
punishment of all the civil and military
officials responsible for the murder.
In addition to these demands. Anbas-
Bador ZinOvief was instructed as a
means Of general pacification in the
Vilayet of Monastr to make the follow
ing demands:
The immediate severe punishment of
all Turkish officials regarding whose
outrageous behavior a report was made
by the director OF the Russian consul
late al Uskab. after making a tour of
the villayet of KossovO in company
with the Austrian consul; the reinstate-
ment Of Ismael Hakld, who was dis
missed. but whose efficiency was en-
eral of Macedonia; the immediate re-
lease of the peasants on whom, accord
ing to the reports OF the Russian and
Austrian consuls. the Turks perpetra ted
atrocities: the instant dismissal and
punishment of the officials of the ad-
ministration of Salonica. and Prisrend,
whose malpractices have been brought
10 light. and finally that the foreign Of
ficers employed in Macedonia shall i'm
mediately enroll fresh gen d'armery and
e. rrotppffor of the
peaceable population and the introduc-
tion of legislative order
On August y Count Lamsdorff tele
graphed to the Russian diplomatic
agent at Sofia that the imperial gov
ernment could not obtain adequate sat
isfaction for the assassination of Mr.
Rostkovski, and therefore had already
taken measures to secure redress. AS
on the occasion of the murder of Con-
sui St Cherbina, the suppression OF the
insurrectionary movement among the
Albanians was demanded. so on the
present occasion demands had been
presented to the Ottoman government
for the severe punishment of all the
military and civil authorities guilty of
atrocities against the Christians.
Count Lamsdorff Impressed on the
diplomatic agent that It was his duty
to see that Russia's vigorous attitude
towards the porte was not interpreted
by the Bulgarian government or the
Macedonian committee as indicating
any CndH6t III t0e DOnllCdl programme
laid down in the previous government
communications. It would be a dan
gerous error, added the Russian foreign
~minister. on the part of the principality
TOO consider Russia's present action as
II fostering the revolutionary agitation of
sthe Macedonian committee, whose con-
tinued criminal activity was a hind
rance to the Dacification of the Vilay-
cts and therefore to the introduction
of reforms. From the Russian consular
reports it was clear that the peaceful
Christian population suffered at the
hands of the revolutionary bands as
much as they did from the outraSes
and robberies committed by Turks All
these circumstances. concluded Count
I.amsdorff, proved the necessity for the
most vigorous counter action on the
part of the Bulgarian government with
a view to the suppression of the
troubles in the Balkan peninsula.
DOESN'T WANT CHARITY
Constantinople Aug. 15.-The widow
of NJ. Rostkovski, informing Hilmi
Pasha, the inspector general of Mace
donia. that she would not accept the in
demnity of $4,000 offered by the porte
for the murder OF her husband, said she
did not want Turkish charity. She has
returned the decoration of the order of
the Nishani-Shopakat. bestowed on her
by the sultan and also her husbands
Turkish decorations.
steamer has left for the Dardanelles
TO embark Ali Ria Pasha, the dismissed
vail of Monastir. who has been exiled to
Tripoli.