Public attention has been turned considerable interest of late in the di tion of Turkey, for the United States has just made a demand upon that Government in a form little short of an ultimatum, The demand is for the settlement of the claims of American missionaries for injuries and losses sustained by them during the Armenian massacres. The total of the claim is $90,000, and its justice has long ago been acknowledged by the Sultan. That monarch proposed some little time ago, when the importunities of this county's representatives became pressing, that he should order a cruiser to be built in the United States and should allow the $90,000 to be included in the price of the vessel. This proposal was immediately rejected by this government as being but a means of dodging or-delaying settlement, Last week a note was handed to the Sultan, couched in peremptory terms, and demand-'The note specifies, however, no date within ing immediate payment of the indemnity, which payment must be made.
No answer to it hasas yet been receiv Boston, Mass., 5th May.
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