Salt Lake Herald | 1891-10-24 | Page 1 | The Russian Embassy Pushing the Sultan

I The Russian Embassy Pushing the Sultan LSpeclal to TIE HERALD Examiner Cable1 LONDON Oct 23The Daily Telegraph I publishes today Friday the following news from its correspondent at Vienna j I Intelligence comes from Constantinople I that tho Russian embassy is pushing the j I Sultan hard for proofs of his assurance of neutahty in other words Russia affects to believe that the Sultan has taken certain I engagements for the contingency of a war which M deNelidoff contends are mere assurances and insufficient He says that Russia must either obtain substantial I proofs or she must take steps to secure her I own interests j The Sultan pointed out that Kiamel i i Pasha against whom M do Neliiioff hal I made frequent complaints has beon dismissed I dis-missed but the Russian ambassador replied j re-plied Your majesty assured Sir William I White and 11 de Ridowitz that the change I ot ministers meant no change of foreign I policy and added it was well known that I Kiamel Pasna had strong sympctriies with the triple alliance and England Therefore I There-fore Russia is entitled to demand taneible I evidence that there is no understanding bo I tween Turkey England and Germany I i It is hardly necessary to say that this is I j merely a fresh device of the Russian embassy I i em-bassy lor putting on the screws and compelling I compel-ling the Sultan to ask for a recall of the British dotachei squadron in Turkish waters The Dardanelles are strewn with torpedoes and several foreign vessels are I being Bued ior damages for having dragged their cables and injured tho wires with their anchors Eight hundred pounds is I claimed from one ship belonging to a large firm iu Hull i