Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-08-20
RUSSIA READY TO
ENFORCE DEMANDS
viii Not Accept Promises
From Sultan in Regard to
Murder of Consul.
SENDS THE BLACK SEA FLEET
Will Make Show of Strength in
Turkish Waters to Indicate the
Gar Is in Earnest-Must Act With
Promptness.

Gar Us IN EarneSt-Must Act With
Promptness.
st. Petersburg, August ia squad
ron of Russia's Black sea fleet has
been ordered to sail for Turkish wa
tiers. Notification Of this has been
telegraphed from Sebastopol to the
Russian ambassador at Constantine
pie. ....
The dispatch of the squadron is
intended to emphasize Russia's inten-
ton of exacting complete compliance
with her demands as to the satisfac-
ton for the murder by Turkish gen
d'arme Of her consul at Monastir.
The following kilograms exchanged
between the foreign Office and Rus
sian representatives abroad show the
first steps taken as a consequence of
the murder of M. Rostkovski, the Rus
sian consul at Monastir:
On August IL, Count Lamsdorff, the
foreign minister, telegraphed to M.
Zinovieff, Russian ambassador at Con-
stantinople, that neither the sultan's
expression of regret, the visit of
Prince Ahmed, the sultans son, to
the ambassador, nor the expressions
of sympathy by the grand vizier and
other high Turkish dignitaries was
considered to be adequate satisfac-
ton for the murder of M. Rostkovski,
When M. st. Cherbina, the Russian
consul, was murdered at Mitrovitsa,
the car took into account the fact
that the murderer was an Albanian
whose tribe was in rebellion.
The car ordered that no promise on
this time should be accepted, but that
this time should be accepted, but that
demands be made as follows:
THAT immediate punishment of the
murderer, the arrest and punishment
of the person who fired at M. Rost-
kovskis carriage, the immediate pro-
duction of positive proofs that the
vail of Monastir has been actually
banished, the immediate severe pun
ishment of all the civil and military
officials responsible for the murder"
In addition to these demands, Am
bassador Zinovieff was instructed as
a means Of general pacification in the
vilayet of Monastir to make the fol-
lowing demands:
The immediate severe punishment
of all Turkish officials regarding whose
outrageous behavior a report was
made by the director of the Russian
consulate at Uskub, after making a
tour of the vilayet of Kossovo in COM
pany with the Austrian consul; the
reinstatement of Ismal Haiku, who
was dismissed, but whose efficiency
was endorsed by Hilmi Pasha, inspec-
tor general of Macedonia; the immed-
late release of the peasants on whom
according to the reports of the Rus
sian and Austrian consuls, the Turks
atrocities; the instant dis
missed and punishment of the offic-
ials of the administration of Salonica
and Prisrend, whose malpractices
have been brought to light, and finally
that the foreign officers employed in
Macedonia shall Immediately enroll
fresh gen d'armes and police for the
requisite protection of the peaceable
population and introduction of legis-
lative order
On August IL, Count Lamsdorff
telegraphed to the Russian diplomatic,
agent at Sofia that the government
could not obtain an adequate salts
faction for the assassination of M. Rost-
kovski 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
th@ Id
the present occasion demands had
been presented to the Ottoman gov
eminent for the severe punishment
of all the military and civil authori-
ties guilty of atrocities against the
Christians.
Count Lamsdorff impressed upon
the diplomatic agent that it was his
duty to see that Russia's vigorous atti-
tude towards the porte was not inter
rupted by the Bulgarian government
or the Macedonians now as indicating
any change in the political program
laid down in previous government
communications.
1t would be dangerous error, added
the Russian foreign minister, on the
part of the priucipality to consider
Russia's present action as fostering
the revolutionary agitation Of the
Macedonian committee whose criminal
activity was hindrance to the paci-
fication of the vilayet, and therefore
to the introduction OF reforms. From
the Russian consular reports it was
clear that the peaceful Christian popu-
lation suffered at the hands Of the
revolutionary bands as much as they
did from the outrages and robberies
committed by Turks. All these cir
cumstances, concluded Count Lams-
dorff, proved the necessity for the
most vigorous counteraction on the
part of the Bulgarian government with
view to the suppression of the
troubles in the Balkan peninsula.
THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS.