Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-08-24
AND PILLAGE.
Country Around Adrianople
Ravaged by Rebels.
MUSSULMAN INHABITANTS FLEE
Russian Fleet Has Sailed For Sevas-
tOpOI-The Porte Made "a Rec
ord Reply to the Cars
Firm

Firm Demands.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Aug. 24.-The
Russian Black sea squadron, which
was ordered to Turkish waters and
which anchored at Iniada, eastern
European Turkey, jim 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 S~evastopol, the
squadron's point of departure.
On the receipt of a favorable reply
from st. Petersburg NJ. Zinovieff tele-
graphed the order of withdrawal to
Admiral Krieger, commanding the
Russian squadron at Iniada.
NJ. Zinovieff, Russian ambassador
here, announces hat the sultan has
yielded completely to Russia's de-
mands. In addition to the condemna-
ton and execution of NJ. Rostkowskis
murderers and the punishment of their
accomplices, those officers who made
disrespectful illusions to NJ. Rostkow-
ski are dismissed from the service. A
careful search is being made for the
persons who fired at the consul's car
rage.
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 Haki 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 Mimi, 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, a promptitude most unu-
sual in the history of Turkish diplo-
macy. Tewfik Pasha, the foreign min
lister, and Naum Pasha thereupon call
ed on M. Zinovieff, the Russian ambas-
sador, and requested the withdrawal of
the Russian squadron from Turkish
waters on the ground that it's presence
tended to encourage the instruction.
1t 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.
An extraordinary council of minis
tiers assembled at Yildiz kiosk to con-
slider 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
situation in that vilayet as verging on
a panic. The insurgents have destroyed
Geographic communication at several
points between Adrianople and Kirk
Kilise, thirty-ive miles to the north
east, and have burned and pillaged sew
eral Greek and Mussulman villages, in
GLIDING Kavakli 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 on
the Black sea coast have arrived at
KAYAK, at the entrance to the Bospo-
rus.
A strong feeling prevails among the
Mussulmans at Salonika and Monastir
on account of the execution of NJ. Rost-
kowski's murderers. The remains of
the murdered consul were shipped at
Salonika to OdessQ with great pomp on
board the Russian embassy g~uardship
Teretz. The Turkish civil and military
authorities attended the ceremony.