Newport weekly independent., 1903-08-28
FAIR PROMISES
 DON'T SUIT RUSSIA
She Wants Complete Compliance With Her Ddmands For Mur-
 der of Her Consul.
RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET
 ORDERED TO TURKISH WATERS.
Expressions of Regret On the Part or the Sultan, the Visit of Prince Ahmed, the SuItan'J Son to the Russian Ambassadors Cut But Very Little Figure.


 St. Petersburg, Aug. 16.-A squadron of Russian Black sea fleet has been or dered to sail for Turkish waters.
 Notification of this move has been telegraphed from Sebastopol to the Russian ambassador at Constantinople
 The dispatch of the squadron is in- tended to emphasize Russia's intention of exacting complete compliance with her demands as to satisfaction for the murder by Turkish gendarme of her consul at Monastir
 The following telegrams exchanged between the foreign office and Russian representatives abroad show the first steps taken as a consequence of the murder of M. Rostkovski, the Russian 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 sultan's son, to the ambas- sador, nor the expressions of sym PoIAy py IiS Sl duu FlZlGI dl1u OluSI high Turkish dignitaries was consid- cred to be adequate satisfaction for the murder of M Rostkovski
 When M. St. Cherbina, the Russian consul, was murdered at Mitrovitza, continued Count Lamsdorff, the czar took into account the fact that the murderer was an Albanian, whose tribe in ment. The outrage at Monastir, how ever, was of quite another character, and called for the severest punishment. The czar, therefore, ordered that no promises on the part of the Turkish government should be accepted but that demands should be made as fol- lows:
 The immediate severe punishment of the murderer; the arrest and ex- emplary punishment of the person who fired at M. Rostkovski's carriage; the immediate production of positive proofs that the vali of Monastir has been actually banished; the immediate severe punishment of all the civil and military officials responsible for the murder.
 In addition to these demands, Am bassador Zinovieff was instructed, as means of general pacification in the vilayet of Monastir, to make the fol- lowing demands
 The immediate severe punishment Uf all Turkish officials regarding whose outrageous behavior a report was made I,xy Of late at Uskub, after making tour of the vilayet of Kossovo, in company with the Austrian consul; the rein- statement of Ismail Hakki, who was dismissed, but whose efficiency was iE- dorsed by Hilmi Fasha, inspector gen. eral of Macedonia; the immediate re- lease of the peasants on W; om, accord ing to the reports of the Russian and Austrian consuls, the Turks perpetrat- ed atrocities; the 'nstnnt dismissal and punishment of the officials of the administration of Salonica and Pris- rend. whose malpractices have been brought to light, and, finally, that the foreign officers employed in Macedonia shall immediately enroll fresh gend- di hSAJ dAu pO44CS IOI ,E6 ISqulSlIc protection of the peacan'e population and the introduction of !. gislative or der.
 On August 12 Count Lamsdorff telt- graphed to the Russian diplomatic agent at Sofia that the imperial gov ernment could not obtain adequate sat isfaction for the assassination of M Rostkovski, and, therefore, had al ready taken measures to secure re- dress. On the occasion of the murder of Consul 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 authori- ties guilty of atrocitie; against the Christians
 Count Lamsdorf 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 change in the political programme laid down in previous government communications.
 NJ. Rostkovskis Widow.
 Constantinople, Aug. 1G The widow of M. Rastkoyski, informing IIilmi Pasha, the inspector general of Mace