Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-04-23

must he constructed, with Lighthouses at
short distances frOm each Otuer Tor ihe
protection OF a line which is some 2)o
miles 10 length, for which 10000 men. al me
lowest cure, viii be required in tae way
Of garrisons. And then comes the queS-
ti0ns whence Will England draw these 1O,-
600 men? How can thew be concentrated
ri "a given moment? VIII the sO-cailed
rebels allow the rails TO remain m place
after thew have been put down! we feau
of offers of submission made by some Oh
the tribes who are ready for "a consldtr3-
tion TO accept the Amann. and lhe'e Is
no doubt that many viii accept H. ana
with il presents Of arms and money, after
which they Will 90 back and join their
old chief lust as Osman DINA himself
did. for he too was a guest, said the news
napcr men, at Suakiu. where he moved
about freely ard took notes, re-
commencing hOstlities when Wen
posted as 10 the situauon' Whlch
would have been worse than IL is II Lhe
presence of the British feet had not
checked an intended rising Of the native
population. Apropos of a rising, am as
sured that Cairo is ripe for revolt, and
that instances OF the assassination OF
British soldiers there are becoming every
day more frequent. The movement OF the
Mahdi could be termed rebellion al IT'S
inception; it Is now revolution, ana III
will soon he thatuprising Oflslam which
have predicted as imminent since the hrst
agitation of Arab. Things have come to
such a pass that the Sultan must define
his position distinctly; he must throw IN
with the Mussulmans and accept their
leadership or must risk the dislOcati0n OF
his empire, at two opposite points oil
which-Albania and the 1emen-lis
domination is seriously menaced by IN
surrectiOns Of a much graver character
than European diplomacy, fearful OF
a catastrophe, will consent to admit.
few months, perhaps very few
weeks. will settle the matter, for although
repeat my disbelief i'm war before OCtO-
Der next an accident may precipltate a
solution. The situation becomes more
complicated with each mail from st. Pc
tersburg, and is not made clearer by the
circumstance that on Prince Won Bis
marck's reply to Ria Veil Pasha, who
bad gone to ask his advice at Berlin, de-
ponds everything. Hassan Fehmi failed
in his proposal Of an AngiO-Turkish ALI
ance: viii the Chancellor counsel the
Padishah to accept the Cars offer
of Russo-Turkish alliance, often
sive and defensive, against all corners?
Russia promises to guarantee the in
tegrity Of the Turkish empire, in Europe
as in Asia, in exchange for Turkeys col
possibly, and according to
some authorities, in exchange for her
benevolent neutrality only. England
would only engage to guarantee her Asian
possessions. which she is practically
unable to do, and demand the definite
ownership of Cyprus as her wages.
There is a considerable difference in
the pretensions of the two powers,
and the Turks are beginning to
appreciate that England's so-called
amity has always worked them more
harm than good; that it is to
Turkeys interest to substitute Russian
influence for British influence at STAN
boul. Russia's policy has always been
misinterpreted, thanks to the mlsrepre-
sensations of the British press. Her object
has been the conclusion of an alliance
with Turkey, not the conquest Of Turkey,
undoubtedly with an ultimate view to
her absorption, but not with the intention
of resorting TO violence such as would in
evitably bring down upon her the en-
barra ssments Of outside Intervention. lg-
natieti's game was to tend the tree until
the fruit was ripe enough TO fall without
shaking into his sOvereign's lap. He did
seek to bring about the war of 1917, and 4
Englard's promises had been unheeded
that war would never have been fought.
WHAT the Sphinx Eof Berlin may reply
to X n Veil no one can fOresee, but should
in be- IN the affirmative the world will not
have to wait long for a collision in Asia,
of which the first consequence Will be the
withdrawal OfitalY from all collaboration
with her present friend, and possibly the
union Of Italy and France with Russia.
81 of Lord Dufleriu's mise en- scene by the
mobilization OF two corps darmee and
the royal reception of the Afghan
Ameer viii never convince the people
of Central Asia that England is able
to protect them. They know all about
. the British defeats in the SOudan, and in
addition need only compare the lot of the
Mussulmans who live under the British
yoke with that OF the Circassians and the
Turcomans to be quite decided that il
they must be annexed they Will be better
of as Russians than as the subjects OF
her Most GrasiOus Majesty. Tallyrand
predicted in 1908 that the dav must come
when En- Glands Indian empire would be
overthrOwn by Russia "as only on land is
she really vulnerable" When Bona
parte was forced to raise the siege Of ST
Joan dAcre he exclaimed: "J'Oi manqu,
ma fortune!V Tor that fortress fallen, h
contemplated a march toward thu
Indus. and in 1858 sir Henri!
Rawlinson, a most determined
advocate Of resistance to Russia's en-
croachments upon Turkestan, wrote tina
sin the hands of the Russians, ii erat, thu
key to India, will be impregnable. and b.
} the roads from Asterabad by Mesched
from Khiva by Merv, and from TashkenI
and Bokhara by Marmenck the Russian
/ will become the absolute masters of Cen
: trail Asia" Now the Russians. estah
lished at Sarakhs, with outposts far il
J advance of that position, are only 10
: miles distant from HeIat, while the tw
British divisions which are to be conceu
, trated at Pishni are still over 800 mile
l distant. leave your readers to judg
q for themselves Of the probable result {
I hostilities.