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Sultan Is Defiant

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Day
31
Month
December
Year
1896
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Public Domain
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ConsUntinople, Dec. 29.- The RuaBian Satunlay. aöting in concert with the représ of Great Britain, Prance, Italy, (-many and Austria, had an aud lenca of the sultan, Abdul Ilamid, one oí many BUCh inlorviews which have taken place uithin the last. year on the same subject- that of a better administration of the affairs of the Turkish empire. The Eussian diploma! foegan by warning the sultan and the Turkish government that if the revenues ceded the payments of the Turkish debt wMc touched th Bfuropean control of the flnances of the empire vould become inevitable. ■ . M. de Nelidoff, the Russlan ambessador, further Informad the sultan that the czar guaranteed his personal safety and engased hjmself to maintain the sultan's supremacy in the event of severe measurer, being necessary upon the part of the powers. The sultan, however, remalaed obdurate, refusing his consent to any measure of control, financial or otherwise, by the powers. To this the Rusalan ambassador replied that the condition of the Turkish empire placed the throne and the caliphate in imminent peril. Thercupon Abdul Hamid remarked, impressively: "I may be tho last of the caliphs, but I will never become a second khedlve." FEAKS A CRISIS IN TTRKEY. Olney Apprchrnsive of a War That Will Oblitérate the Empire. Washington, Dec. 29.- "Secretary Olney is apprehensive of an early crisis in the situation in Turkey. President Cleveland in nis annual message intimated that the three European powers who are waiting for the sultan to accept the programme they had outlined and which was formally submitted to the porte by the Russian. ambassador some time ago, are getting ready for combined action. ' The policy of the state department in tuch an emergency will be one of neutrality, but an American fleet will be on hand subject to the orders of Minister Terrell to guard the interests of American missionaries. Nothing has been heard from Ambassador Bayard concerning the prospects of an early novement of European powers to enLorce the sultan's compliance with their üemands, but the state department claims to have information from other reliable sources that action is likely to be taken at any time and the result, il is believed, will be a serious war that will sweep away the last vestige of the eultan's rule and probably cause the dissolution of the Turkish government as a distinct power. Geriuauy Mackiug the sultan. Washington. Dec. 29.- The statement ■that a secret alliance exists between Gerinany and the sultan of Turkey is made in a letter from Constantinople received by a prominent official of the state department. The letter was written by one high in authority in the Turkish government aríd expïains that the alliance is for the purpose o thwarting Russian and British en croachment In the sultan's dominions

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