Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — SULTAN BROKE WORD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SULTAN BROKE WORD

FAILED TO KEEP PROMISE TO FRENCH MINISTER. In Consequence Diplomatic Relations Between the Two Nations Are Broken Off, and M. Constans lias Left Constantinople—Abdul Hamid la Shifty.

A semiofficial note has been issued in Paris announcing that, the Porte not having carried out its undertakings with

regard to the disputed questions between the French and Ottoman governments, M. Constans, the French ambassador, acting under instructions from the foreign minister of France, has left Constantinople on the date named in his last communication to the Porte on the subject.

An arrangement had been effected, and its terms drafted by the Ottoman foreign minister, with the approval of the Sultan, who had promised M. Constans that the text should be handed to him on a certain date.M. Constans telegraphed to Paris the day following that none of the promises had been fulfilled, and M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs, telegraphed M. Coustans that, in view of so flagrant a disregard of the undertakings, the negotiations could not longer bo coutlnued and requested M. Constans to inform the Porte that ho had received orders to leave Constantinople. M. Constans communicated with the Porte, fixing Monday as the date for his departure, and, as the engagements were still unkept, M. Constans left Constantinople on that day. With thedeparture of M. Constans the relations between France and Turkey may be regarded as broken off. Munir Bey, the Turkish ambassador to France, has been telegraphed not to return to Paris. The current affairs of the two embassies can be carried on by the charges d’affaires, but all negotiations of a political nature will be entirely suspended until the Sultan yields to the French demands. The French government holds that the Sultan has broken his word. He had promised full payment of the long standing indemnities to the Frenchmen, amounting to 12,000,000 fraq£S but declined to pay the full amount and offered a reduced sum, which was refused by M. Constans, who waited until Monday and then departed. The Sultan made a final attempt to induce him to stay. M. Constans had left Therapia on board the Vautour for Stamboul, where he was to take the Orient express. A court chamberlain arrived at Stamboul in posthaste from the Sultan, begging M. Constans to return to Therapia and promising that everything would be satisfactorily settled. M. Constans declined to return, declaring the time for promises was past and that it was for the Sultan to fulfill his undertakings.

ABDUL-HAMID.