Excerpt from The Outlook, Vol. 65: A Weekly Newspaper; May-August, 1900 American note handed to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tewfik Pasha, on Tuesday of last week, is couched in peremptory terms, demanding immediate payment of the indemnity sev eral times promised to Minister Straus by the Sultan. With the character and his tory of these claims for indemnity our readers are familiar. The note does not fix a time-limit for an answer, but its tenor is not far from the character of an ultima tum. The Porte so far has given nothing but evasive replies and suggestions, and those unofficially, with the exception that in an official communication to Washing ton it is intimated that the Porte is not disposed to advance our claim above those of other countries which have long awaited payment. The hint that Turkey would be willing to order a war-ship built in the United States with the price fixed so as to include the amount of the claims is typical of Turkish evasion and trickery. The State Department promptly and curtly de clined to accept any such plan. Another feeble attempt at escaping the point is found in the issue of an ifdl/c', or imperial order, permitting the rebuilding of the American structures destroyed at Har poot and the enlarging of Robert College. The order ought to have been issued longago, and, although welcome in itself, would be of more use to the owners of the property destroyed if it were aecom panied by payment Of the damages justly due, so that means to rebuild might be available. It is a notorious fact that the Sultan spends annually 1n bribes and gifts to favorites many times the amount in volved, and his plea of poverty will last only as long as he feels that actual force will not be applied to him or a serious injury result to Turkey's international status. A missionary now present at the Ecumenical Conference suggests that a good way to force compliance with our demands might be to seize one of the islands in the Dardanelles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.