The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 9, 1897, Page 1

/ VO VELESTIND TAKEN BY | THE TURKS| Captured After a Battle in Which Edhem Is Victorious. the Request of Consuls Sailors Are Landed From Foreign Warships. At | FLEET WITHDRAWN AGREEME] GEORGE'3 BY Now in The the Entire Greek Army aly Will Bs Concentrated at Dhomoko. hem Porte that nch Consuls at Ve bearing estino and in- | phed 1o t e to V the G ceks wera evac- ng released the | lors from anded to pro- | proteclion w needed to save om fire and pillage. Edhem | he accordingly dis- , who occupied the town | 15,000 Greeks he vance army transport to the | | to the tehed troops Greek coast ve been issued an- | noun the capture of Phs a, where | the Tu visions cial bulletins d many The ppeared whotly un- volice announce they that two :d with | the Consuls | to con- fer with bim tl t life and n LUME LXXXL—-NO, 16( | there that SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDA Y MORNING, MAY 9, 1897—THIRTY- TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENM 3 VIEW OF HALMYROS AND ITS SKALA OR PORT, Whither General Smolenski Retired From Velestino. The town of Halmyros is sit ent town occupies the site of a city of much renown in ancient times, and parts of many of the buildings now standing are centuries old. Gulf of Volo. The pre. ed on the southwestern edge of a plain called by the same name, about ten miles long by four wide, whic hskirts the western side of the About three miles east of the town, at the mouth of a small river which comes down from the foothills of Gera-Kovani and across the plain, is its skala, or landing-place, Halmyros having from early times a good deal of trade by sea with lower Greece. The mountains to the west and south of the plain belong to spurs of the Great Orthrys range. view is from the extremity of Cape Halmyro, on the eastern side of a bay of the same name and directly east of the skala. one naturally but gives him the assistance of the war vessels in the gulf. The General Smolenski’s position is not only a strong and urges the Government to remedy the Gold isac 110 premium over billetes, rid say it is reported Dispatches from M the Government made arrangements for a loan of 000,000 pesetas irom the Bunk of Spain, whica will be anteed by home cu toms. Bonds will be floated according to requirements of the Government. st 4k S SORRY TO LEAVE ENGLAND. Bayard Declares for the British Ex - Embassador His Fondness LONDON, Exc., May 8.—Ex-Embassa- dor bayard and family left this morning for Southampton, whence they sailed for ork. In an interview Mr. Bayard said: “I have been received with the ut- most kindness by all classes, and am sorry to part withso many friends. I have been | struck with many things, especially the | great charity of the English people. “Itwas a great disuppointmeut to me when the arbitration treaty was so se- verely amended in the Senate, and another | when it finally feil throngh. Idon’t be- lieve it is finally dead, but !ook with con- fidence to tie future.” A iarge number of American and Eng- Lish friends were at the station to bid Bayard farewell. Embassador Hay sent Secretary Carter to represent the embassy. Replying to addresses by the Mayor and Chamber ot Commerce of Bouthampton Bayard said be had come to England a friend of the British people, and leit a property at Volo if the 3 Greek <quadron of that place w notto fire at his army after its occu of the town, and as a guarantee of tention to keep this agreement he will his The proposition on | Pasha has been ac- | Greek commander. The re Greek army in Thessaly will be concentrated at Dhomoko. LONDON , May 8.—Dispatches re- ceived here this afternoon say the foreign | anded sailors and marines at Volo in accordance with the request of the British, French and Italian consuls, who asked that men be sent ashore to pro- | tect the town. The assurance is that the Turkish occupation of Volo wiil be absolutely peaceful and perfect order maintained. | A dispatch from Athens to the Central | News says that Greece notified the powers she would recall the officers and sappers | from Crete and promised gradually to | withdraw all troops from the island. The powers thereupon offered to mediate be- | tween her and Turkey on condition that | Greece should unreservedly confide her interests to the pow | Greece, the dispatch adds, objects to this condition. Other dispatches from Athens in the main confirm the dispatch to the Central News. It is doubtful, how- ever, whether the powers have yet offered to mediate. Pourparlers are proceeding with reference to conditions, but effective aiation is not regarded as immediate. VIENNA, AvsTRIA, May 8.—It is semi- ally declared the attitude of Greece regarding Crete being an ambiguous ques- tion the intervention of the powers is temporarily ata standstill. his in- withdraw leet. the part of ed by the e warships given | m SPAIN'S TANGLED FINANCES, Home Customs the Guarantee for the Latest Big Loan. HAVANA, Cusa, May 8.—The Govern- ment has suspended the redemption of silyer notes by the Spanish bank. La Lucha editorially calls attention to the alarming state of the monetary question, due to the increasing depreciation of Ppaper currency through wild lpsculltlan. | much dist ronger friend than when he came. - CAUTIOUS HAROLD SEWALL. The New Minister to Hawaii Positively Declines to Discuss ihe Affairs of the Islands. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—Harold Sewall, the new Minister to the Hawaiian Islands, was seen by & CALL representa- tive at the Metropolitan Club to-night. Mr. Bewall was shown a dispaten from San Francisco 1n which he was reported as saying that the administration was very urbed and perplexed about re- ports of Japan’s intention of ultimately occupying Hawaii, and that the rapid set- tlement of the Hawaiian Islands by Jap- anese Was a part of this programme. Miunister Sewall said to THE CALL corre- spondent: “I donot care to discuss this matter. Of course you will readily un- derstand why it would be improper for me, as a diplomatic representative, to ex- press my views or to repeat whatever 1 may have heard from the State Depart- ment. You may say, however, that since my appointment I have studiously en- deavored to avoid meeting newspaper men, and you are the first I have seen. I bave no prejudice azainst newspaper cor- respondents, but what one says 1s so often distorted. “If a recenily appointed diplomatic agent of the United States wants to keep out of trouble he had better keep his mouth closed. I haveadhered to thisand any reports quoting me or pretending to give my views are manufactured,” Mr. Sewall says he has not yet received any instructions as to the exact time he will leave for theislands, although he had along talk recently with President Mc- Kinley. He will go direct from here to San Francisco, having closed up his busi- ness affairs in Maine. SheSigetl HAWAII AND JAPAN. No Anxiety Is Felt in Either Country Over the Situation—Uncle Sam's Good Offices Courted. WASHINGTON, D. C., May. 8—The Starsays: A telegram was received here to-day from Tacoma, Wash., saying: The Northern Pacific steimer Pelican, from has finally | | tBo Orient, brings advices that Count Okuma, | the Japenese Minister at Washington, has been instructed to dispatch the American adviser of the Japanese legation in tne United States, D. W. Stevens, to Hawall at once o aid in settling the Hawaifan trouble. It is ex- pected that Mr. Stevens and Counselor | Akyami, sent from the Foreign Offico at Tokio, will essist Mr. Shimaru, the Japanese repre- sentative at Honolulu, in conducting negotia- tions with the Hawaiian Government. | A Star reporter, who visited the Japa- | nese legation here to-day, was informed that Mr. Stevens, counselor of the lega- | tion, was not going to Hawaii, as indi- | cated in the above dispatch. Itappears | that when trouble scemed imminent a bort time ago the Japanese authorities instructed Minister Hoshi to have Mr. Stevens proceed to Hawaii. Suksequently, | however, the sitnation became more pacific and Mr. Stevens’ trip was aban- doned as unnecessary. Recent advices to the legation show that the Japanese Government, as well as the | people of that country, is in no way agi- | tatea over the Hawaiian situation. The Japanese Government has put a stop to all emigration to Hawail It is also | stated that the dispatch of a Japanese | warship to Honolulu wasin no sense a menace, but was intended simply to re- strain any possible demonstration by the Japanese there, in consequence of the ex- clusion of Japanese immigrants. In this connection 1t is said that an offer by the United States to use its good offices in securing a settlement of the | trouble would douabtless be accepted by Japan, e ANSWER To HAKI'S BRIEF. Contention of Attorneys for the Blythe Claimants in the South. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8 —The at- torneys for the alleged biood kin of T.omas Blythe,through their Washington attorney, have filed in the Supreme Court their answer to the brief of W. H. H. Hart, Fiorence Blythe-Hinkley’s attor- ney. They claim that their clients in Kentucky and Arkansas are the legitimate heirs of Thomas Blythe, and insist that no State has the right to award property to an alien. This, they say, belongs to Federal jurisdiction and is in contraven- tion of the treaty. The case will be pre- sented on Monday, At gl f MAY FISIT CALIFORNIA. Beeretary Wilson to Make a Tour Among the Farmers. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—Secre- tary of Agriculture Wilson said to THE CaLy, correspondent to-day : “Probably next year I shall make a tour of the farming districts throughoui the South and the Southwest. I am pecu- liarly a farmer of the temperate region in the Nortuwest, and must own to a consid- erable lack of information as to the re- quirements of the farmers in the sub-trop- ical regions of the country. But I am going to find out as much about them as I can, and shall probably proceed as far as California in the effort.” ol Sk LIBERAL LONDONERb, Healthy Funds for india’s Starving and the Greel: Wounded. LONDON, Exc., May 8.—Bubscrintions to the India famine fund continue to pour in. Over In addition $450,000 bas been donated for the Greek wounded. It is said by those who ars interested in getting the subscriptions that the end 1s not in sight, and they say that a great deal more money will be subscribed. News from India is to the effect that the famine is as bad as ever, and there seems to be no prospect for its abatement. - Murdered and Hobbed by Brigands, CUERNAVACA, MExico, May 8.—Jose Campallo, owner of the Hactenda de Te- telco and one of the wealthiest Spaniards in Mexico, was attacked by brigands and murdered. The body was robbed of a large sum of money. BETE S 1108 [DNSIDERED Powers Cannot Over- look the Island in a Settlement. |NATIVES WOULD FIGHT FOR GREECE. New Complications Arising Between the European Nations. THE SCHEMES OF INTRIGUERS BEING ¥XPOSED. Had King George and the Sultan Been Let Alone There Would Not Have Been War. [Copyrighted, 1897, by the New York Snu.} LONDON, Exa, May 8 — The week ends, in the langnage of John Morley, with the “‘Sultan laughing, Greece bleed- ing and the Prime Minister making a jest of it.” Morley insists further that every victory of the Turk is a European disas- ter. That is one view. e other and more general is that disaster to Greece insures harmony among the powers and the peace of Europe. The fact'is business 13 improving, the stock matkets are be- coming ‘buoyant, and the interest which the great mass of Europeans take in the Gico-Turkish war, at first keeniy appre- hensive, is now purely spectacular. I would be easy, politically speaking, to present a rosy outlouk as the result of recent events in the East and'in certain imperial capitals. It would not be difficult also to paint a gloomy picture of the same situation. One or two uncertainties are being gradually eliminated, but the veil still hides othor essential features. It is becoming evident, in spite of all the re- ports to the contrary, that Greece, official and populace, will be glad to make peace on any reasonableterms. The indications are also that the powers are unanimously in favor of the same end. i Regarding the Sultan, however, there is a conflict of evidence. The Sun’s corre- spondent at Stamboul reports ‘to-night that' the Porte nominally favors peace, butis pushing fresh war measures with the utmost vigor. There is no doubt when the question of terms is raised the Sultan’s demands will be exorbitant—so extreme, indeed, that Greece will say, as now reported in Athens, she will prefer war to extermination- to accepiing. But there is vastly more than appears on the surface of the situation. Some facts of great significance are beginning to appear in connection with the discussion of re- sponsibility for the beginning of the war. Canon MacColl, who is one of the fore- most Greek sympathizers in England, has just returned from Athens. He quotes the highest authority 1n the kingdom for saying that all Greece hoped or wished was to be left face to face with the Porte, which made overtures direct to the Greek Government on the Cretan question, but was stopped by the intervention of one of | the powers. How far the concert col- lectively was aware of this fact was not known, but of the fact itself there isno doubt. From the day the Greek troop: evitable unless one of two conditions was granted—either permission to Greece and the Porte to deal airectly or some con- cession to the amour propre of Greece. have mcant not only the defeat of the ministry, but also the downfall of the monarchy, to be followed by a revolution more menacing to the peace of Europe than the present situation. This without doubt is true enough as far as it goes, but King George recently affirmed he could have had Crete a year 2go 1f he had consented to give Suda Bay to a certain power. Counle this with the declaration of Captain Gambier in the current number of ithe Fortnightly Re- view: I hapven to know M. Nelidoff came very near versuading the Sultan a few weeks ago to hand over the pacifica- tion and eventusl government of Crete to Russia alone. While this perfectly sensi- ble arrangement was being negotiated, M, Campbon, the strongest and ablest diplo- matist in Constantinople, got wind of it, He called on Nelidoff and proposed a counter scheme that if Russia was placed in this position France be permitted to occupy Smyrna or Beyrout. England was left entirely out of the whole affair, and thereis not a shadow of doubi had not the calculations of these two men been upset by the incalculable vower which lurks in_stupidity, suci as is now being exhibited by King George, the ar- rangements would have been carried out. It is known Ergland could not fire a shot to prevent it.”’ There are still other elements of this sinister situation which complicate it, making the outcome far more uncertain than . casual observers fondly believe. Greece is disgraced and crushed perhaps, but still a factor to be reckoned with. 8o, too, are the. Cretans, who have been al- most 1goored since the more serious war began. Recent dispatches from Candia say that the Turks have resumed their ex- cessive confizence that autonomy is a dead letter. This would easily seem to be a point for the restoration of Turkish rule, for no step has been taken to withdraw a single Turkish solder. It is unfortunate that such color is lent to the insurgents’ persistent assertion that the powers are allied with Turkey. Food 1s becoming exbausted, and desperation will result. Chiefs in Akrotiri are unshaken by the disasters in Greece. They prefer her ruined to Europe or autonomy. They would send a force of volunteers to Greece, if allowed to do so. They give no sign of yielding. They are more determined and less conciliatory than ever. Europe must not expect any easier solution as a result of the war in Greece. Above and domi- nating all these camplications is the re- grouping of the powers by themselves, which is not yet clearly defined beyond a revival of the league of the three em- perors. Salisbury may be terribly de- ceived, but there isno doubt he is confi- dent of the practical friendship of France, as weil as Italy. There is a remarkable article in the Paris Matin this week signed “Y.,”" which were allowed to land in Crete war was in- | To have retired unconditionally would | is openly ascribed to Hanotaux, and the assertion is not denied. It contains these significant sentences: *A great danger in the Balkans was the possibility of a col- lision between Austria and Russia. That is now over, as Emperor Francis Joseph and the Czar have realized the great idea of Catherine I and Nicholas I as to the understanding between Austria and Rus- sia in the presence of the Turk. But this understanding has taken place withina Euronean concert and does not affect the respective alliances of the two countries. Of course if there were an alliance be- tween the three Emperors this would mean ap end of the Franco-Russian union. But the understanding between the repub- lic and the Muscovite empire is more cordial than ever., It is neither an ex- clusive nor a jealous arrangement. The two couniries are absolutely pacitic, and wish to establish general confidence and solidity in Europe.’’ This may be interpreted as a warning o the Czar not to ally himself with Em- eror William or an indorsement of the Austro-Russian understanding. ADMIRAL MILLRE'S VERSION. Cannot Kesign to hake Koom for Phy- thian and Wallace. BOSTON, Mass., May 8.—Rear-Admiral J. N. Miller denies the rumor which was started in Washington yesterday to the effect that he and Commodore Norton were to retire before they reached the age limit, in order that Commodores Phy- thian and Wallace might retire with a rank higher than they otnerwise would. Admiral Miller says that both Pythian and Wallace were cld friends of his, and that ordinarily he would do anything to aid them, but that in the present case he did not see his way clear. He has been given the command of the Pacific squad- ron, a post which he would rather have than anything else in the gift of the de- partment, und he intends to take com- mand there in July SSlgi s NOW IN THE POORHOUSE. Sad Fate of a Man With a Big Claim Againat Spain. BOSTON, Mass., May 8. —Gustave Riche- lieu, who has a claim for $10,000 against the Spanish Government, this morning applied for a permit to be sent to the poor- house. His claim is as an American, the charge being that he was imprisoned in disregard of his rights as such for sixty- two days at Santiago de Cuba. He and two settlers were driven on the Cuban t while on a turtie-fishing expedition. hey were arrested on the charge of sym- pathy with the insurgents. The case has for some time been before the United States Senate. Richelieu says that he has spent $1700 on it, and as he cannot get any work he must go to the poorbouse or starve. He was committed. e Canadion Cold-Storags Arramgements. MONTHKEAL, CaNApa, May 8.—At a meeting of the select committee of agri- culture at Ottawa, Professor Robertson, | Dominion Dairy Commissioner, made some important statements regarding rangements made by the Miaister of Agri- culture in reference to the cold storage. He announced that there will be cold storage accommodations on seventeen steamships from Monireal this summer, and besides this fortnightly shipments will be made from Quebec, St. John and Haiifax, and monthly from Charlottes- town, with railway cold-storage cars mak- 1ng direct connections. LN S Mormons in Mexico. CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, May 8.—An- other large Mormon colony is to be estab- lished in this State. All arrangements have been comnpleted for bringing several hundred families from Utah. Already there are four prosperous Mormon colo- nies in this State, and a project 18 afoot to connect all of them by building new railroads, \CTS 0 \ HERD AT THE FIRE Although Starving He Rescued Several Persons. FOUND FAMISHED AND DEMENTED. Celebration of Requiem Mass for the Repose of the Souls of Victims. SCLEMN WEIRD SCENES IN THE NOTRE DAME CATEEDRAL. Many Distinguished Persons At- tend the Funeral Ceremonles In the Temple of Mourning. PARIS, Fraxce, Mav 8.—The identity of the plumber who heroically rescued several persons from the fire on Tuesday was not known until yesterday, when he was found running tarough Rue de Marbourg, raving mad, and shouting “Fire.” He was taken to a police sta- tion, where, aiter being quieted down, he was able to give his name, which he said was Leion Désjardins. He also gave his age as 31 and said he was out of em- ployment and had no home. Desjardins saict he had been looking for work for some weeks and was in quest of employment when he happened to pass the burning building just after the fire started. In his efforts to save the lives of others he was severely hurt, ana his injuries, to- gether with the exposure and hunger to which he had been subjected, unbalanced his mind. The doctors who examinea him believe with proper rest and food, both of which have been provided, ke will recover, and arrangements have already been made to give him permanent work. All the preparations for the celebrations of requiem mass in the Cathedral of Notre Dame to-day for the repose of the souls of the fire victims were completed last night. The main entrance to the edi- fice was draped with a huge pall, span- gled with a silver edge and ermine, reach- ing to the ground. Inside the decorations were of the same design as those used for the funeral of Carnot. The great square in frontof the cathe- dral was packed early this morning Funeral services were held in the cathe- dral at noon to-dsy. The Duke of Leuch- tenberg was present as the representative of the Czar and the German Emperor was represented by Prince and Princess Radzi- will. The cathedral was crowded with Ministers, diplomats and other persons of prominence. In the middle chancel stooa the catafalque, upon which were placed coffins containing the bodies of Comtesse de Vallinan and Mme. Julian. NEW TO-DAY. 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