Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — SQUADRON IS ORDERED AWAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SQUADRON IS ORDERED AWAY

Diplomatic Relations Between France and Turkey Resumed. SULTAN SIGNS AN IRADE. It. Dclcassc Accused of Being Too Timid la the Recent Imbroglio —Comment of French Press —A Suggestion to the Sultan. Paris dispatch: Admiral Calllard’s fleet has been ordered to sail from Mltylene at once. It will proceed to the island of Syra. Diplomatic relations between France and Turkey have been restored. M. Bapst has been ordered to reopen the embassy at Constantinople. M. Constans, the French ambassador, will return to the Ottoman capital at once. The Figaro, commenting upon the situation, says: ‘‘The sudden news of such a retreat is not calculated to reassure us. On the contrary it makes us believe in hidden dangers.” A writer in the Eclalre says that from the moment the word protectorate was uttered France was confronted no longer by Abdul Hamid, but by William 11. Delosm Accused of Timidity. It is the general opinion here that the naval demonstration against Turkey was “much ado about nothing.” The government is more ridiculed than praised. Foreign Minister Delcasse’s timidity is too apparent to penpit French prestige to derive benefit from the demonstration. The only man who has improved his reputation is M. Bapst, councilor of the French embassy at Constantinople, who throughout the dispute showed remarkable tact and foresight, and, above all, firmness. Bnltan Signs the trade. The French Foreign office has announced that the Sultan has signed an irade for the execution of his engagements with the French government, and that the Franco-Turkish dispute is now at an end. Called Brilliant Victory. The Temps, which describes the result as "a brilliant victory for French diplomacy,” says: “The great merit of the government was in being able to restrict its action. Serious difficulties might have arisen had France departed from her reserve. The favorable disposition shown to our representatives abroad has been due to the fact that the civilized world

has had opportunity during the last seven years to observe the progress of the anti-European movement in the Sultan’s counsels. Frenchmen, Americans, Austrians, Italians, and Britons have all been vlctimized.by the Sultan and his counselors. After the Armenian massacres and the successful war with Greece they thought everything was permitted to them. We hope the Sultan will now understand his duties toward the civilized powers and toward his own subjects, unto whom he has taken solemn engagements which he has always disregarded. Otherwise Europe, which, thanks to the energetic action of France, is now able to reassume at Constantinap.e the authority she lost seven years ago, will applaud the initiative which the signatory powers of the Berlin treaty are reported to be about to take to extort from the Sultan the execution of clauses too long fallen into disuse.” Calllard Telegraph* Particular*. Paris, Nov. 12.—Admiral Caillard has telegraphed particulars of the seizure of the customs at the principal port of the island of Mltylene. He says that in consequence of the sympathetic welcome extended to his squadron he landed only a single company of marines, who were received with marked confidence by all the inhabitants.

THE SULTAN OF TURKEY.