Letter

Gargiulo to Horace Maynard, May 25, 1877

Author
Gargiulo
Recipient
Horace Maynard
Date
May 25, 1877
Type
Letter
Language
English
[Inclosure 3 with No. 155.]

Mr. Gargiulo to Mr. Maynard.

Constantinople, May 25, 1877.

Dear Mr. Maynard: The state of siege has been officially declared in the following terms:

Constantinople and its suburbs are from to-day placed in a state of siege. This will be made public by a special notice. The civil administration will be replaced by military administration. Persons who, by their acts or by their conversation, cause any disturbance of the public peace will be brought before a council of war, to be instituted at the ministry of war, tried summarily, and according to the nature of their offense will be sentenced. They will be punished either by death, hard labor, confinement in some fortress, or by imprisonment. The execution of these judgments will be immediate.

  • In case of necessity, the military administration will collect the arms and ammunition of the population.
  • Any houses which it may be deemed necessary to search Will be searched.
  • All suspicious persons and those who are of known bad character and who have no fixed residence will be removed from the country.
  • Newspapers which attempt unduly to excite the public mind will be suppressed. All gatherings and public meetings are forbidden.

This is the purport of the imperial iradé just proclaimed.

I am, &c.,

A. A. GARGIULO.
Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.