Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1901 — SULTIAN BREAKS HIS WORD [ARTICLE]

SULTIAN BREAKS HIS WORD

Ottoman Ruler Has Been Playing for Time. IN TROUBLE WITH FRANCE. » France Withdraws Its Ambassador and Notifies Munir Bey to Keep Oat of Paris —Negotiations Between the Two Countries at an End. France considers that the Sultan of Turkey has violated his word, that he has haggled beyond endurance over the price of the quays, and until he makes proper amends, negotiations between the two countries are at an end. M. Constans has been ordered away from Constantinople and the Turkish ambassador has been notified that his

return to Paris is not desired. Leading diplomats at Paris believe that the first step has been taken in the disruption of the concert of European powers, under which the integrity of the Ottoman Empire was guaranteed. The Berlin treaty was the outgrowth of an attempt on the part of other European powers to check the designs of Russia in encroaching on Turkish territory. Since then all of the powers have had occasion to regret their friendship for the sultan. Vast claims have piled up, and the signatory powers may be obliged, in self-protection, to ignore the agreement and force the Porte to pay up or divide his possessions among them. A semi-official note has been issued 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, left Constantinople Aug. 26, the date named in his last communication to the Porte on the subject. An arrangement had been effected Aug. 17, 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 Aug. 18. M. Constans telegraphed to Paris Aug. 19 that none of the promises had been fulfilled, and M. Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs, Aug. 21 telegraphed M. Constans that, in view of so flagrant a disregard of the undertakings, the negotiations could no longer be continued, and requested M. Constans to inform the Porte that he had received orders to leave Constantinople. Sultan Talks Fight. The Tageblatt of Vienna has published correspondence from Constantinople which says the sultan will go to war rather than yield to unreasonable demands, that he is studying plans for defense and that he has ordered 300 guns from Germany.