The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 30, 1897, Page 1

/ VOLUME LXXXL—-NO 181. PRICE FI1VE CENTS WILL BF LONG AND TEDIOUS Slow Progress Made in the Negotiations for Peace. CONCESSIONS EXPECTED ON EACH SIDE. While the Porte Is Quibbling as to Armistice, Clouds Gather at Athens. | COLONEL VASSOS IS BECOMING AMBITIOUS. Thinks He Can Fortify the Historic | Pass of Thermopylaa and Make It Impregnable. [Copyrighted, 1897, by the New York Sun.] —_— | Both sides e peace is con- | and Greece. | doubt that the ne- gotiations will be long and tedious. The state of public opinion in both countries | is one of -the reasons why the terms will be more moderate than the mil- itary party in Turkey would now tolerate, and more severe than the ( S NOwW ac- cept. There must be an opporiunity to moderate the feeling on both sides before | a conclusion is reached. The greatest danger still is the Greeks' recklessness and vossibility of revolutions in Athens. While there is no verification of yester- | reports that King George was bar- ricaded in the palace and ready to fly in case of an uprising, the situation is crit- ical, and it would be folly to inform the | Greeks of the onerous conditions of peace. The Porte is now quibbling over the point | that there has not yet been an official ermistice. When this is settied the cumbrous process of negotiating begins, will contiaue as long as the Sultan enjoys that form of amusement. It may easily be prolonged all summer when there is such a- grote concert of This process may easily become a de- vice for offset Great Britain’s sudden Tevival of independence in refusing to | consent to Turkey Thessaly even temporarily. The mystery of the in- | dividual attitude of the powers is as great | LONDON, 2 desire to ga ded between a., May time bef Turkey There is no longer a and jue concern as the Jurope to deal with. occapying asever. The Sultan and Kaiser continue | to exchange telegrams expressive of | iration. | Stamboul correspondent tele- ght that Germany also tak- [ 1 financial ‘advantage of her pecu- liar friendship with the T A special | train leit Stam for Koniah | i Zinder, agents of !mann, manager ho!ze, manager of the 's, and other members of the o scheme, to inspect the various projects emanating from the Duetsche B group. The chief point of interest whether these schemes harmonize the Russian plans. o nk is | with of S IN LEONIDAS’ ROLE. But Colonel Vassos Has Rather | Raw Material From Which to Make Heroes. LONDON, Exe., May 20.—An experi- enced Sw who has just been ex- ploring the country around Thermopylm, writes that the historic pass is being strongly fortified, and Colonel Vassos of | Cretan fame has announced his intention to hold it against any army Edhem Pasha dare bring up. This is vaporing against cold facts, Vassos, who aspires to play the role of Leonidas, brought from Athens fonr or five thousand so-called soldiers, nearly | half of whom had never previously held a gun. All are raw and undisciplined and most unpromising material from which to make heroes. Vasscs, however, isdo- ing his best. He has a number of engi- neer officers, under whose directions strong earthworks are being thrown up. But Thermoply is not what it was in the heroic age of Greece. It.isnow nearly | 2000 yards wide, and Edbem Pasha, with his splendid artillery, would have iittle difficulty in forcing a passage. It is reported here that the Turks have | occupied Tsoponates in the neutral zone | and the Greeks have protested against the Turkish advance into forbidden terri- tory. gk ANXIOUS TO DIE. Crown Prince Constantine Pre- vented From Commiting Suicide. PARIS, Fraxce, May 20 —A dispatch to Le Petit Journal from Athens says: It is now known here that after the Greek de- feat at Dhomoko Crown Prince Constan- tine, learning of the animosity toward him displayea at Athens, wanted to blow out his brains, but was prevented by his officers. : —_— PROBLEM OF POWERS. For a Third Tim= tne Boundary Question Is Up, but N>w the Sul- tan Is Harder to Handle. For a third time are the great powers of Europe about to engage in the important undertaking of fixing the frontier line be- | majority of his | Hamid is in a position to dictate terms of | | peace and bonadaries rather than be com- | what was taken from him |outset that no matter how the war re- A \\ Subdued Only When the Guards Use Their Rifles. {Mutiny of the Convicts at San Quentin Prison. Seventy of the Rebellious Prisoners Break Out of Their Dungeons and Are ween Greece and ‘Turkey, and with less prospect than ever before of arranging matters on & permanent basis, satisfactory t0 themselves and to the two uations prin- cipally concerned. The Saltan of Purkey stands to-day in a | very different position from’ that which he occupied in 1878, when the Congress of Berlin took from him Thessaly and a part of Epirus and gave it to the Greeks, as from that of his predecessor, Mahmoud | 11, who, after a long war, with his naval power destroyed at Navarino and a French army in the Morea, was oblized at the | joint dictation of Russia, France and ting- iand 'o acknowledge the independence of Greece and accept such boundary limits from the latter as they propose: With a victorious army of over 80,000 men occupying all of Thessaly and Epirus and a reserve of 200,000 more at hand, the people enthusiastically | supporting bim and demanding that he retain all that he hss conquered and the Sheik-ul-I.lam advising him that it is the willof heaven that he should doso, Abdul | pelled 1o accept what the powers see fit to allow him, He has again acquired by force of arms in 1878, when | he was weak and humbled, and he nas the | precedents of German retention of tie Danish provinces and of Alsace and Lor- raine to sustain him in the face of Europe, and, aithough the powers declared at the suited, neither Greece nor Turkey should make any -territorial acquisition, &t least ©0 of them, Russia and Germany, are in- ed 1o recede from that position in avor ot Turkey, while England_and France are more fixed than ever in their determination that the ‘'status quo ante bellum’* shall be observed. & In commenting on the first settlement of the boundary question in 1831, an eminent English authority, thoroughly familiar with every point involved, said that ‘4t would never be settled permanently until it was settled right, and that that should bave been done then, when the time and circumstances were opportune.’” Greece has always regarded Thessaly and Lower Epirus as naturally belonging 1o her. The mujority of their people are Greeks, and they took a most active part in the struggle for independence, though not aliowed to reap any of the fruits, the | powers relegating the country of Bozzaris | and his compatriois to Turkish rale. While Greece took no active part against Turkey at the time of the Russo-Turkish war and her name was not even men- | tioned in the treaty cf San Stephano, a well-timed uprising about Dhomoko, in | Thessaly, in 1878, brought ‘the question | before the Berlin Congress and it was vroposed that all of Thessaly and Epirus proper should be given to Greece. This would have put the boundary on the crests of the Amaches and the Pindus mountains, for the most part natural barriers and cut by gaps or practicable passes in but few places. Strong opposi- tion was shewn to this, however, especi- ally by Russia, and a compromise was finally effectad on a tine which left Turkey Mount Olympus and the upper part of Thessaly and all of Epirus north of Janina and the Kalamas River. The delimitation of this boundary was left to | Greece and Turkey. A part of it, between Olympus and Metrovo, was surveyed and marked in 1881 and subsequently, but in spite of all her urging and diplomacy | Greece was never able to get an inch of | terntory beyond the Arta River. Turkey | held on fast to Lower Epirus. The fortune of war bas even been less kind to Greece. Tle Turk still holus | Epirus and bis armies cover ali Thessul: which the voice of Allah says he must keep. KEven at the concerted dictate of | Coptic and Arabic. is a leaf from a book of the third century | of these are not Europe he can hardly dare to disobey. The Sheik-ui-Islan, though appointed by the Sultan, is largely independent of him. Islam is a combined system of law and re- ligion, and he is the chiet or head of the Ulema or religio-judicial hierarchy of the empire. His fetwa decisions are based on assumed divine reveiations of the Koran and are without appeal. The Sul- tan can neither declare war nor -conclude peace without the formal approval of the Sheik-ul-Islam FROM A THIKD-CENIUKY BOOK. Sayings of C(hrist on a Leaf Found in . an Egyptian Mound. LONDON, Exg, May 2).—Grenfell and Hunt, working in behalfof an Eeyptian exploration fund, have found at Behnesa, in the rnbbish of mounds, rolisof papyri which range from the Roman conquest to early Arab times. Most of the rolls are written in Greek, but some are in Latin, Among the papyri is containing the sayings of Christ. Some in the Gospels, while others exhibit divergencies from the text of the Gospels. — - DEFIANT TO THE LAST. Life Sentence Given the Anarchist Who Tried to Kill Humbert. ROME, IraLy, May 29.—The trial of Pietro Acciarito, who on April 22 at- tempted to assassinate King Humbert as be was driving to the Campanelle race- course, ended to-diy in his conviction and sentence to imprisonment for life, When the sentence was pronounced Ac- ciarito cried: “To-day is my turn; to- morrow will be the Government's. -Vive revolution! Vive anarchy !’ FLOOD SUFFERERS BEING CARED FOR Homeless of El Paso Are Provided With Tents and Sheds. Although Many Lose Their Property No Deaths Are Reported. Federal Rellef Is Promptly Granted and the State Will Follow Suit. EL PASO, Tex., May 29.—The water in the submerged portion of the city has fallen eight inches during the last twenty- four hours, but as the tloods continue to pour ‘into the crevasses above the city the situation remains practically un- changed. While there has been considerable suf- fering among the hundreds of homeless | poor :heir condition 1s hourly improving | and the majority are now sheltered by tents and temporary heds. The hospital tent erectea by the Board of Health is crowded, but so far there have been no ! PIETRO ACCIARITO, Who At tempted to Kill King Humbert of Italy on the 22d of Ap i, and Was Sentenced Yesterday bv the Tribunal of Rome to the Galleys for Life, - deaths. Aid has been asked from Con- § Svosh gud from the Siate Legislature, and it is believed that the responses wiil be prompt from both sources and that in a few days the flood vietims will no longer be dependent upon baphazard charity. The attempt to close the crevasses above the city was abandoned this morning, but it is expecied that the river will have fallen sufficiently by to-morrow to permit the resumption of work. Another rise is expected to reach here by Wednesday, but by that time it is hoped to uave the levees repaired, and prevent the inundation of the business portion of the town, which has been so seriously threatened. The Santa Fe road succeeded to-day in repair- ing the washout at Selden, and resumed traffic over its own line. et BELIFF rOKk SUFFERERS. Mills Secures Prompt Federal Aid for the Homeless at El Paso. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 29.—In the Senate to-day Mulls of Texas secured con- sideration ior & joint resolution authoriz- ing the Secretary of War 1o use rations for the relief of destitute persons in the dis- triét overflowed by the Rio Grande Rivér, near E! Paso, Tex., and appropriating $10,000 for the purpose. Mills read a rele- zram from the Mayor and city officers of Ei Paso, saying 500 liouses had been de- stroyed, 3000 people were destitute and the condition was beyond the power of 1 | local relief. The joint resolution *was passed. DU M ' Howsrs Wached Away. SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 29.—The | rise in the Rio Grande reached the mining town of Bequillas del Carmen, just across theriver from Presidio County. 1twashed away & number of houses of miners. Great damage was done to other property. HAS LEGPOLD GONE DAFT? Wysterious Doings of the King in Eng- land, While the Court Chronicler Re- ports Hm in Brussels. [Copyrighted 1897 by the New-York Sun.] LONDON, Exa., May 29.—There is nruch mysiery abont the recent movements of Kineg” Leopold. Last week the official court ehronicler in Brussels gave out the customary paragraphs of the Kinu’s do- ings there, while atl the'time his Majesty was stroliing’ about London seeing the jubilee preparations. Some say he perpe- trated a little joke by proceeding to Shef- | tield last week when the Qeen paid a state visit to that city, ‘ana the old Iady was scared to see her royal kinsman on foot in the frout line of a big crowd of en- thusiastic Yorkshiremen. Whether the story is true, it is certain tbat last Sunday he suddenly started afier ber Maj sty and traveled to Balmoral as an ordinary pas- senger. Alfter seeing the Queen the King made tracks for Glasgow, where his yacht was opportunely ‘anchored, and sailed | Wednesday for parts unknown. The ves- sel was jealously guarded and the King selected the witching hour of midnight for joining her. TO OPPOSE THE DUKE OF TECK. Scheme of the Candidate for the Governor- Generalship of Canada to Gobble U Lands Is Closely Watched. [Copyrighted 1897 by the New York Sun.] LONDON, Exc., May Nothing more has been heard of the suczestion to ap- point the Duke of Teck Governor-General | of Canada: - Even his friends have ceased the ‘advacacy of his claims. Curiously enough, just at this moment a fight being made here against the Yukon Com- pany, of which the Duke isa member, and which desires, apparently, to gobble up the best parts of British Columbia by means of royal charter. The Liberal members of Parliament are on the watch for an opportunity to raise a debate on the Yukon business, and even political women have been pressed into servi against the poor Duke, who ceriainiy never did them any harm. Thus the Women’s Liberal Association solemnly assembled in conference a dav or two ago and passed a resolution denouncing all chartered companies, with special refer- ence to the infamous South African Com- pany, and calliug upon the Government to grant no charters, which demand is di- rectly leveled at the Duke of Teck and the Yukon grant. WILLIAM IS NOT WANTED. Leading Frenchmen Ridicule ihe Idea o1 the German Emperor P.ying a Visst to Paris. topic is how to treat the Emperor of Ger- manv if he comes to the Frenuch capital. The Gaulois has been sounding politicians and authors and the responses are almost unanimous against the Emperor coming to Paris. Mme. Adam thinks that Paris and the French people would be the lavghing-stock of Europe if the Emperor were to come. Morris Barres thinks that Paris might stone the Ewmperor to death. “It would be misfortune,”’ he adds, “i they did not.” 5 Other- replies oscillate between these opinions. An eminent person who as- | sumes tc know ihe Emperor’s mind says: “The Emperor quite appreciates the re- buff he bas lately received. He expected it, but has not changed hisintentions on that account. [tisa fixed resolve with him to come to Paris and as a friend, and he will find means of coming.” i s “0 KING OF KINGS."” Bishop Wakcfield Writes a Diamond Jub:- lee' Hymn for Which Sullvan Com- poses Mus:c. LONDON, Exa., May 29.—Bishop Wake- field has written a *‘Diamond Jubilee hymp”, entitled *O King of Kings,” which will be included hereafter in the bymnal of the Church of England. The music is by Sir Ar.hur Sullivan. There are four verses to the hymn, one of which is: Oh, royal heart with wide embrace, For all her children yearning; Oh, happy reaim, such mothers grace, With loyal love return(ng. Where Eug ish flag files wide unfuridly All tyrant wrongs repelling, God made the worlc a better world For man's brief earthly dwelling. EMBASSADOR PORTEK PKESIDES. Banquet of the American University Linner Club at Paris. PARIS, France, May 29.—The third banquet of the season of the American University Dinner Ciub was given to- night at the Hotel Continental. Porter, the new American Embassador, presided, his first public appearance. All the mem- bers of the American embassy and a large number of American painters and students were present. The ‘‘Marseillaise” was sung, while students from the Latin quarter sang “‘Star-spangied Banner” and colleze songs. Porter made a speech, which was loudly cheered. Kerdinand Brunetierre, the well-known critic, who recently returned from the United States, replied to the toast, **American Universities,” He said he congratulated himseli on his sojrurn in New York, Boston, Baitimore and New Haven. Brunetierre again attacked Zoia, declaring he did not possess the quality of an observer of realism. Le Maitre, a well- known noet, spoke to 1he toast, **French Universities.” Consul-General Moras re- plied to the toast, “Ex-Pupils.” Theodore Stanton proposed that the club to-morrow decorate the tomb of La- fayette. DOWNGO THE DOORS OFRON Convicts Break Out of San Quentin’s Dungeons. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Brought to Bay Only When the Sentries’ Rifles Begin to Crack. THE PRISON A CAGE OF WILD ANIMALS. The Great Strike Is Growing and Revolt Is Seething In All Departments. animal in the convicts is loose and has turned on his keeper. The huge bastile is seething with revolt. Order has been superseded by terror. Discipline is maintained only by confining one-half the inmates in gloomy cells. The great por- tion of the remainder are taciturn and surly. Matters are growing worse. The striped felon showed his teeth omi- nously to-day. Tired of rigid restraint and limited diet, he sought to break leave his cage. A general prison break was only thwarted when the bullets of the sentries’ rifles cowed them. Seventy of the 700 men who refused to g0 to work in the jutemill on Thursday morning for a time precipitated a panic in the big bastile. Succeedingin getting out of their dungeons, where they have been confined for the past two days, they pro- ceeded to wrench the iron doors cf the various dark cells from their hinges. Cell walls were partially demolished with the aid of improvised iron tools. The con- viets then sought to cut their way through the floors to an engine-room beneath, where they noped to bide until cover of night and then make a concerted attempt to scale the walls. ‘With the wrecked iron doors of their cages the prisoners made a barricade against interruption. When the guards would carry this fortress they were beaten back with bricks and other missiles. It was only when.a volley of builets rattled against the breastworks that the men haited, and under the protection of Win- chester rifles the guards were allowed to beat down the obstacle with sledge ham- wers and subdue the prisone! The dungeon of the prison is situated over the engine and cooking room of the dining quarters. The dungeons are four- teen in number, gloomy, forbidding, cav- ernous cells opening into a corridor. In these dark holes were confined the men whom the prison authorities suspect of being the leaders of the present rebel- lion. 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