The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 28, 1896, Page 1

NIBR | BOMBARDED British Guns Reduce Saxd Khalid's Palace to | Ruins. SHOT AND SHELL FROM| THE WARSHIPS, Rebels Stand by Their Guns at the Forts and Pluckily | Return the Fire. SOLDIERS AND MARINES CAP- TURE THE CITY. The Usurping Sultan and His Ad- herents Seek Asylum in the German Consulate. ZANZIBAR, Aug. 27.—The palaceof the | nsurping S { n, Sai alid, to-night is in ruips and Said Khalid and bis ad- | herents are domiciled in the German con- E ulate. B I Hamoud, 2 cousin of the lste Sultan, | has been proclaimed successor to the sul- tanate. ush, ed upon The guns of the Br and Raccoon sh warships Sparrow ‘were the palace this morning, | a . in response to the de- at he nder, refused to com- th ihe terms of the English uiti- um. and shell poured from the men-of- | the wallsof t e paiace crumbled m-house was the to receive the at- by the late Sultan and which carried a number of guns, was then sunk by the warships. All on board the Glasgow were scued by boats from the bombarding ships. Among them was a jarge number | of sailors and marines who haa been/ wounded. Many of the British residents boarded the warships lying in the harber before the bombardment began, ail of the ladies taxing refage upon the St. George, the flagship ‘of Rear-Admiral Harry H. but a large number of Europeans d on shore. the rebels stood to their guns and fought well, though after the rom the warships ber of the defenders of the palace to the outskirts of the town, where bberies were committed. dian soldiers were xilled dur- The Thrash was hit sixty- and the Raccoon sixteen times om the guns of the rebels. was the se! of g seaman. No ma- ! terial damage was ed by the British | The followers of tioned behind ba: steady fire upon the Khalid were sta- and kept up a afraid that sh trol they would lose pos proverty, estimated at a quar ion slaves, and also of the oprevention of fi r traffic in human flesh in this ng from Zanzibar are marines and loyal Zanzibaris, and many engagements were had between the fleeing rebeis and the soldiery. To-njght the island is under the author- ity of Admiral Rawson, and he will 50 act | name. | gie " \{;:'*@?A&’ET;“’ R S MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1896. N brought over from Spain. A large por- tion of them are indeed needed-tocover the losses they have already sustained and have still to sustain. “] bad made up my mind not to take any extremely severe measures against the Spanish troops, but they are com- mitting such atrocities, as, for instance, around Guantanamo, where they re- cently butchered all the ill and wounded Cubans, and even women, in one of our hospitals, that I may soon, if things do LIBERAL, BUT INHARMONIOUS. at the entrances to the buiiding, surren- ; dered this morning and were lodged in | prison. | No Europeans were injured during the | fight which took place between the seizers of the bank and the police, or in the out- | oreaks which occurred in various parts of | Galata. The city is gradually becoming ! quiet. The personsarrested in connection with the seizure of the Dank number twenty-five. They will be banished. } BERLIN, GErmaxy, Aug. 27.—The Vos- | | { | ! | i | 1 ' PRICE FIVE CENTS. HARRISON'S VDICE HEARD Ringing Address of the Ex- President Before a Big Audience. REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES ABLY EXPOUNDED. Defiance Is Trumpeted to the Apnarchistic Enemies of Sound Money. INTEGRITY OF THE PEOPLE TO BE MAINTAINED. To Prevent Commercial Distress and National Dishonor, Bryan Must Be Def ated. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 27.—Carnegie | Hall was crowded to tbe doors to-night | with an enthusiastic audience that had | gathered to hear ex-President Harrison | discuss the issunes of the campaign. The | occasion was a big Republiean rally, heid under the auspices of the Republican State Committee. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew presiged and delivered a stirring address, as did President David T. Hill of the Rochester University. A host %of Re- publicans of National repute occu- pied seats on the platform and in the audience. Among them were Chairman Mark A. Hanna, National Committeemen Clayton, Scott and Osborne; Cornelins N. Bliss, ex-Secretary of Staite Jobn W. Fos- | ter, Governor Lippitt of Rhode Island T. Jefferson Coolidg2 of Boston, guberna- torial candidate Frank 8. Biack and ex- Postmaster-General Wanamaker. Mrs. Harrison, wife of the ex-President, was in | attendance, and with a party of frienas Uncle Sam: “When it's too much for the jackass how can you expect me to enjoy it?” ; until be receives further instructions from the home Government. S e ADMIRAL EAWSONS ACCOUML | Bombards the Palace Breause the wrper Refuses to Surrender. { LONDON, Exc., Aug. 27.—Admirar| Rawson this afternoon telegrapbed the fotiowing to the Admiralty Office: | “I issued an ultimatum at 7 o’clock this morning calling upon the usurper to haul down his flag and surrender to me and directing his followers to pile their arms and leave the palace before 9 o’clock, or otherwise it would be bombarded. In- tead of compiying he commenced increas- ing his for and his corvette trained her guns on my squadron. I opened fire at 9 on the palace and on the corvette, which promptly repiied. =1 ceased firing at 9:40, when the cor- vette was sunk, all the guns were silenced and the usurpers yielded to the German Consui. Hamoud hasbeen appointed Sul- tan. The enemy’s loss was heavy. Oaly a petty officer of the gunboat Thrush was wounded. ns, ——— AMERICANS AKE ALL BAFE. | Advices From a Consul to the State De- partment. WASHINGTOM, D. C., Aug. 27.—The Department of State received the follow- ing cablegram this moraning from Dorsey B. Mohan, the United States Consul at Zanzibar: “Khalid Bin Bargash refusing to surrender, the psiace was bombarded by the English fleecat9o’clock this morn- ing and completely destroyed. Many were killed. Knalid took refuge at the German consulate. Afterward Hamoud was proclaimed Sultan. All Americans | are sefe.” e e | the Castle line from the Cape call reg: | larly at Zanzibar. the city, however, back from the water | Until lately the Arabs were the politi- 1 not change, have to adopt (much sgainst eally dominant race as well as the landed | front, consists of dense masses of hovels, | among ' which wind dirty narrow streets, | or rather lanes. Until iately the city was | very unhealthy, for Enropeans especially, | but a recently constructed aquedmet won- de: y improved the health and cleanii- ness of the place, and the number of for- | eigners, especially Europeans, has largely | | increased withip the last few years. The | city proper, called Shangauj, is situated | on a neck of land which lies hich in the | southern part and runs away lo alow eandy point to the northwest. All the larger and better class of build- ings, including the palace and most of the | European residences, are in the southern | part of the city. A salt lagoon, barely | covered n places at low tide, separates the western part, or city proper, from its eastern suburb, which is inhabited by the swahili, slaves and fishermen. At a distance of three or four hundred yards from the city there is fine archor- | age for the largest ocean steamers and men-of-war, which is always occupied by a greater or less number of vessels. Sevéral | lines of steam packets from Suez, India, | the Mauritius, Reunion, Madagascar a: A number of trading | vessels are aiso owned in the city by the | Sultan himself and Exropean merchnnu.i The city already has many of the con- veniences of the larger European ports, | such as a drydock, machine-shops, foun- dries and boiler-yards. The harborand | water front are lighted by electricity. A | number of factories for making sugar and | extracling cocoanut cil have been erected, ! principaily by wealthy Arabs, who lead in | all trade matters. { The Americans have long enjoyed a | large proportion of the trade with Zanzi- | bar, as they were the first western nation | to make 8 treaty of commerce with the | | situation in their own interest. and unless my will) savere measures of punishment proprietors and many of them were very | for such depredations.” wealthy, living like great lords om their plantations. 5 Buyamasyo on the mainlsnd opposite the. island is the outlet foy ail tie eountry behind it baif across the contiment, but is mevely rezarded asa b&“ from Zanzibar. In the present instance, as in 1893, when the Sulwan, Ali Bin Saia, died, the British were prepared to make the most of the European intervention is had Zanzibsr will in futvre be classed as a British pos- session in name as it bas been in fact| ince 1591 | The declaration of Said Khalid, the | claimant of the throne, that be would die before he would surrender shows that he | despairs of getting justice at the hands cf the English, who seem inclined to let his | succession to the throne lapse and take | over the heirship to themselves. “With | Mohammedan dynasties the rule of suc- cession differs fiom that prevailing in | Eurcopean countries, the legal heir 1o a va- cant throne being not the son but the | brother, if there be suea, of the late occu- | pant. o8 This rule gave the English the oppor- | tunity they desired. When Ali Bin Said | died in 1883, his brotber Abdul Aziz, who lived in Muscat, in Yemen, Arabia, was the rightful heir, but he did not suit the views of the English Government as he would bave reunited Zanzibar with Ye- men, as they were prior to 1856, and keep it independent -of European control. Two other claimants, Kali Brugash, son of Ali Bin 8aid, and Hamoud Mohammed, a cotsin, made efforts to seize the throne. The English Consul-General, Renneil Rodd, called on Captain Campbell of the British cruiser Philomel, then waiting in | Sultan, and the advantage thus gained | the harbor, and 250 sailors and marives 3, | they bave continued to kold. Most of the | were landea, backed by whom Mr. Redd ENGLAND’S BOLD GRAB. | Europeans living on the island are either i proclaimed not the son northe cousin nor By Taking Advantage of Political | Strife at Zanzibar Control Is Se- | cured of a Sultanate. | The city of Zanzibar lies near the middle of the west coast of the island of the same 1t is the targest place on the whole seaboard of Africa, except perhaps Al-| engaged in specuiating in tkhe products from the mainiand or are connected with | the shipping interests. As traders they cannot compete with | their Arab rivals for the trade of the | mainland and_with India. ¢ Up to 1873 the local merchants generally engaged to a greater or! the Muscaf, brother Saltan, but a grand- nephew of Aili Bin Said, Hamid Bin Ha- wann, who seemed to have been entirely willing to foliow ‘the role of figurehead marked out far him. His death . brings Khalid forward as claimant again, but tte likelihood is that neither he nor any one else will be chosen ., Tonis and Alexandria. As ap- | lessextent in the slaye wade ana from | to play a part, but in future the Govern- proached by sea it presentsa very pieas- | 12,000 10 15,000 negroes were annually ex- | ment will be in name as it has been for ing view, with buge white houses. bar- | ported to the cities along the Persian and | some years in the past, in fact, vested in racks and forts, with their great round | Arabian coasts. The trade in slaves is | the British representative. When Eng- towers—all backed by high wooded hilis, | entirely prohibited on the island itself, | land turned her attemtion to that part of which 1o the south rise to the height of | but those already in bondage have not been | the worid a few years ago the Suitanate of 600 to 1000 feet. The greater portion of | emancipated. Zanzibar, the Scene of the Bombardment by British Warships, This View Shows the Aristocratic Portion of the City. [From an old woodcut "chnr’llm'..] ’ | Zanzibar extended from the Rovum | River north to Cape Guardafui, and in- | definitely into the interior of Africa. In | 1536 it was delimited to a strip ten miles | wide along the coast as far north as Ka- | pini and a few stations farther up. Then | in 1891 the English banished the Sultan | from the mainiand to the islands of | Zanzibar and Pimba, and m 1893 took | practical control of that remnant. This is entirely in accord with the gen- eral plan England bas had in view for years pas: of controlling the lake region of Africa. The completion of the Mom- ! basa Uganda Railroad now under con- struction will confirm the possession of that whole country to Great Britain. GOMEZ MAY RETALIATE. Butcheries Committed by Spanish Forces Thht Must Be Checked in Some Manner. NEW YORK, N.Y., Aug. 27.—Maximo Gomez, commander-in-chief of the Cuban | rebel army, writes to Thomas Estrada Paima at the Cuban junta in part as fol- lows: - “I am of the opinion that the Spanish Government has actoniplished compar- atively little during the summer cam- paign, and I expeet they will be able to accomplish little ‘more during the coming winter campaien, even if one hundred -thousand re-enforcements are CONSTHRTNGRLE QUET Hundreds Killed Daring the Rioting, but Peace Is Now Restored. Seizers of the Oitoman Bank to Be Banished From the Domain of the Saltan. LONDON, Ex6., Aug. 27.—The Times to-morrow will print a dispaten from Con- stantmople dated to-day saying that many hundreds were killed in the rioting | which bezan there yesterday afternoon. The city, the dispatch says, is more quiet, | but the excitement is intense and almost a panic prevails. The shops are all closed. CONSTANTINOPLE, Tumkey, ‘Aug. 27.—the party of men who yesterday forced their way into the Ottoman Bank, sische Zeitang’s correspondent in Con- stantinople reoresents the outbreak of | yesterday as a gene-al'massacre, and says many hundreds of corpses are lying in the streets, and that a Turkish mob attacked the houses of Armenian inbabitants. The Porte’s official accoun: of the affair says | that after th seizure of the Ottoman Bank | the Armenians showered bombs into the | streets from the roof+ and windows of the | bank amd other buildings, killing a great many passers-by. Among the persons who were thus killed were four ladies. I PARIS, Fraxce. Aug. 27.—The diractors of the Ottoman Bank in Galata, the busi- ness center of Constantinople, have wired the business manager of the bank’s Paris office that the disturbance which occurred there last evening, when the bank was at- | tacked and seized by.an armed band of ricters, are ended, and that everything is well with the bank and auiet in the city, !thanks to tise enmergetic action of the ! Sultan. ey Czar Mects Emperor. | VIENNA, Avsteis, Aug. 27.—The Em- | peror and Empress of Russia arrived here | this morning. Their Majesties were met | at the station and weicomed by Emperor | Francis Josepb, Empress Eiizabeth and a | occupied a box. Much rezret was expressed by the com- mittee in charge of the sffair that Madison-square Garden had not been se- cured for the meeting. The committee bad no idea when the meeting was de- cided upon that the public interest in it would be so widespread, and Carnegie Hall, which seats 3100, was secured. They beiieved at the time this hall would meet | all requirements, but it was not long be- fore they learned they were mistaken. Applications for tickets poured in upon | them unitil they resched the encrmous | total of 30,000 Promptly at 6:30 o’clock the doors of the hall were thrown open, and soon s steady | stream of people was filing into the place. The police, profiting by their experience at the great Bryan and Cockran demon- strations, had made aimost perfect ar- rangements, and there was no crowding or pushing whatever. The hall and stage were beautifuily decorated with the National colors and the effect was most pleasing to the eye. The { speakers’ dais was handsomely draped in | the National colors, and in the rear of the stage were portraits of JcKinley and Hobart amid 2 mass of red, white and bliue. By the speakers’ dais on a signboard were the names ‘‘McKinley and Ho- bart” in raised gold letters. The Seventa killing the gendarmes who were on guard | number of archdukes and archduchesses. | Regiment Band furnisbed mstrumental o “o 4’ j#e° Map of the Island of Zanzibar. and the Rich Lake Region of Africa That Great Britain Seeks to Control.