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TURKEY. 



which Lad hitherto denied that the families 

 in question wished to return to Crete "we 

 shall be under the painful necessity of believ- 

 ing that the Hellenic Government wishes to 

 put a sequestration on our own subjects." A 

 copy of this dispatch and of the petition was 

 also forwarded at the same time to the Turkish 

 representatives at the different courts, accom- 

 panied, in the case of the English, French, and 

 Eussian courts, with a brief allusion to the 

 distressed situation of the refugees who had 

 been removed to Greece in foreign vessels. 



The relations of Turkey with Greece were, on 

 account of the open sympathy shown by Greece 

 to the Cretan cause, of the most unfriend- 

 ly character. (See GEEEOE.) The grievances 

 against Greece, and the demands which the 

 Turkish Government believed it had a right 

 to make upon Greece, are summed up in an 

 ultimatum, which the Turkish minister in 

 Athens, Photiades Bey, addressed to the Greek 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs, to which he de- 

 manded an answer within five days. The ulti- 

 matum closed as follows : 



Consequently, in case the Government of King 

 George should not take the formal engagement with- 

 in five days 1, to disperse immediately the bands of 

 Volunteers recently organized in different parts of 

 the kingdom, and to prevent the formation of others ; 

 2, to disarm the corsairs Enosis, Crete, and Panhel- 

 lenion, or in any case to close the Greek ports to 

 them ; 3, to grant to the Cretan emigrants the au- 

 thorization to return to their homes, and also to give 

 them efficacious aid and protection ; 4, to punish, in 

 conformity with the laws, those men who nave been 

 guilty of aggressions on Ottoman soldiers and sub- 

 jects, and to accord a just indemnity to the families 

 of victims from these outrages ; 5, to follow hence- 

 forth a line of conduct in conformity with existing 

 treaties and international law 



The undersigned, envoy extraordinary and min- 

 ister plenipotentiary of the Sublime Porte, by order 

 of his Majesty the Sultan, his august sovereign, re- 

 grets to inform the Minister of Foreign Affairs to his 

 Hellenic Majesty, that the Ottoman legation at 

 Athens and the consuls residing in Greece will im- 

 mediately leave the territory of the kingdoms. 



As a natural consequence of this declaration, the 

 diplomatic and commercial relations between Turkey 

 and Greece being interrupted, the Minister and mem- 

 bers of the Hellenic legation and chancellery at 

 Constantinoplej and the Greek consuls in the Otto- 

 man empire, will receive their passports. 



The respective subjects of the two states must 

 quit the country in which they are residing within a 

 period of a fortnight from the day in which the rup- 

 ture of relations has been notified, and entrance to 

 the Ottoman ports will be forbidden to vessels bear- 

 ing the Greek flag, from the same date. 



I have the honor, etc., PHOTIADES BEY. 



As the Greek Government refused to accept 

 this ultimatum (see GEEECE), war between the 

 two countries seemed imminent. The Turkish 

 Government ordered all its subjects, residing 

 in Greece, to leave Turkey. A war-fleet was 

 sent to the Archipelago, and a strong army to 

 the southern frontier. 



On the 10th of June, the reigning prince of 

 Servia, Michael Obrenovitch, was assassinated in 

 the park of Topschider, a valley near Belgrade. 

 The prince, while walking leisurely, about 5 

 'O'clock, was suddenly attacked by three assas- 



sins, who were armed with revolvers. He was 

 accompanied in his ramblings by his cousin and 

 a daughter of the latter, together with his usual 

 attendants. The assassins directed their fire 

 promiscuously at the royal party. At the first 

 shot the prince fell and expired immediately. 

 The cousin of the prince was also hit and died 

 in a few minutes afterward. The daughter 

 received a severe flesh wound, but was not 

 dangerously injured. One or two of the valets 

 were also slightly wounded. The assassins 

 were recognized as three brothers Badovan- 

 ovitch. One was at once taken, while the 

 others were captured on the following days, 

 together with a number of other persons in- 

 volved in the conspiracy. The chief insti- 

 gator of the crime was supposed to be the 

 former Prince of Servia, Alexander Karageor- 

 gevitch, at that time living in Hungary. . The 

 trial of the assassins took placo on the 27th of 

 June. On the 28th of June, one of the con- 

 spirators, Captain Marjailovitch, in whose 

 house the copy of a proclamation was found 

 calling on the youth of Belgrade to proclaim a 

 republic, was shot. On the 6th of July., Cap- 

 tain Nenadovitch, brother-in-law of Prince 

 Alexander Karageorgevitch, was executed for 

 complicity in the murder. On the 27th of 

 July, with the exception of one Jose Jeremich, 

 who was sentenced to five years' imprison- 

 ment, and against whom no proof of com- 

 plicity in the assassination was discovered at 

 the trial, all the other accused persons who 

 had been arrested, to the number of fourteen, 

 were condemned to death. Prince Alexander 

 Karageorgevitch, his secretary, and another, 

 who had not been captured, were sentenced 

 in default to twenty years' imprisonment, 

 when apprehended. The execution of the 

 condemned prisoners took place on the next 

 day, the 28th of June. Among them were 

 four brothers Kadovanovitch (the three as- 

 sassins and their brother Paul, who, at first, 

 had in vain attempted to dissuade them 

 from their design). Immediately after the 

 death of Prince Michael, on the llth of June, 

 the Senate, in accordance with law, appointed 

 a provisional regency, consisting of the presi- 

 dent of the Senate, Parinovitch, the Minister 

 of Justice and Keeper of the Seal, Leschianine, 

 and the president of the Court of Cassation, 

 Petrovitch. The regency addressed a mani- 

 festo to the Servian nation, recommending 

 respect for law and order, and announcing the 

 immediate election and convocation of a Skupt- 

 schina, or National Assembly. According to 

 the law of August 17, 1867, this extraordinary v 

 assembly should consist of 542 deputies, sent 

 by the thirteen circles or districts of the prin- 

 cipality. The election for the Skuptschina 

 was ordered to take place on the 22d of June, 

 and the meeting on the 3d of July. Public 

 opinion soon began to declare itself in favor 

 of the young Prince Milan, a nephew of the 

 late Prince Michael, who was studying in 

 Paris. The result of the election, at which a 



