The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-04-29

CONSTITUTION. Inc Minister'S. senators,
deputies and high dignitaries were
accorded the honor of deposing at the
foot of the imperial throne the ex-
preston Of their devotion and fidelity.
please accept, Mr.. Secretary of
State. the assurance of my very high
consideration.
III. Kiazim."
His Excellency. MIR. P. C. Knox. Sec
retary of State, Washington"
Department of State, Washington,
April %, 1909.
"Excellency: have the honor to
" 'nowledge the receipt of your note
TO- 9th inst, by which you inform
no A'ernment of the United States
tina. N. appliance with the national
will d. 81, accordance with the fetva
rendere. ". .e sheik islam, the ma
tional asse. c2/ consisting of the SEN
ate and chas. g # deputies, in the
presence of the Sc,. Ners of the cabi-
net on April q. 'e<,. ,imously pro-
claimed the fall .. " ,ultan Abdul
Hamid and the accession to the I'M
perial throne of the lawful heir under
the name of his imperial majesty,
Mehmed v.
Your note was duly communicated
to the president who has this day been
pleased to extend, by telegram, his
congratulations to his imperial majes-
ty in the following words:
"I offer to your imperial majesty
my congratulations on your accession
to the throne with such universal ac-
claim, voiced by the peoples represen-
tative, and at time 80 propitious to
the highest aspirations of the great
nation over which you rule as the
august head of constitutional gov
ernment. l assure you of the friend
ship of the government and people of
the United States, who earnestly wish
for your majesty's happiness and for
that of the people within your domin-
ions and add my own wishes for
your majesty's health and welfare
"In seizing this occasion to express
to your eXcellency my fluctuations l
take advantage of the opportunity to
convey to you the renewed assurances
of my highest consideration.
Huntington Wilson,
Acting Secretary.
"His Excellency, Hassein Kiazim
Bey, Turkish Ambassador, Washing
ton"
A Favorable Impression.
A favorable impression has been
created in Washington by the remarks
attributed to the sultan in his public
utterances and the confident hope was
expressed that Turkey is about to en-
ter upon a new era of successful con-
stitutional government.
Kiazim Bey in his talk with the
state department officials today was
very optimistic touching the troubles
which beset Turkey in the provinces,
where the fanaticism of the moham-
medan has resulted in such dreadful
slaughter. ascribing these conditions
as rather having fictitious bases with
a rather weak following among the
people as class.
From the American standpoint, the
permanent improvement in the condi-
tions in Asia Minor and other portions
of Turkey where massacres of Ar
menians occurred, is the most i'm
portant duty that confronts the new
government. In dealing with this the
faith and capacity of the Young Turks
party will be put to severe test.
The disposition of the American war
vessels now gradually approaching
Gibraltar will in measure be left to
the American embassy at Constanti-
nople. The vessels soon to be avail
able are the armored cruisers North
Carolina and Montana, now on their
way across the Atlantic, and the reve-
nue. cutter Tahoma, which arrived at
the Azores today and which was di-
rected to proceed with all haste for
Gibraltar.
Announcement was made today of
the intention of sending the cruiser
New York to eastern Mediterranean
waters next month. The three cruis-
ers will form an emergency Mediter-
ranean squadron.
The main object in sending the New
York, it is explained, is to have to-
gether for tactical purposes three ves-
sells of practically the same class al
lowing much better results to be OBJ
tained in drilling.
The gunboat Scorpion, the station
ship at Constantinople. now at Naples.
having her boilers repaired. will not
be ready to return to that city for a
month.
Many Wounded
Adaha. Asiatic Turkey. April %
Emergency hospitals established here
contain 300 patients suffering from
wounds. many Of whom arc women.
The average number of wounds of
each patient is four. There is great
and immediate need for food and medi-
cal supplies. Practically the entire
Armenian population of Adana, $1,000
people, is homeless, without bedding
or clothing and the food supply in the
shops is exhausted.
Some of the wounded Armenian
women have told Miss Wallace, an
English nurse who Is caring for them,
that they were shot by Moslems be-
cause they screamed when they saw
their husbands killed before their
eyes. Many Armenian girls were car
ried off by Turks as booty. A large
number of mutilated bodies have been
found in the houses in this city.
Stephen Trowbreidge, an American