The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-13
ENGLAND AND TURKEY.
The Sultan Swayed by Franco
Russian Influence.
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CONSTANTiNoPLE IN DANGER.
Emperor William Makes BloOdthirsty
Speeches to Bavarians.
Socialist Aveling's Glove Union" With
Eleanor Marx-Close of the Trades
Union Congress-Irish Gratitude to
Secretary Balfour.

BERLIN, Sept Associated Press.
Copyrighted, 1891. The leading political
development of the week has been the
practical adhesion of Italian Prime Min
lister Rudini to the policy of Lord Sails
bury, the English premier. The sultan of
Turkeys new bias in the direction of
favoring Russia, as instanced in the Oar
danelles affair, will now have to bear the
weight of the counter influence of Austria
and Italy, and probably Germany, for it is
stated that Herr Won Radowitz, the Ger
man ambassador to the porte, at an audi
ence with the sultan on Wednesday,
urged that favorable hearing be given
to the views of Great Britain, and that
through his representations Sir William
White, the British ambassador to Turkey,
was given an audience by the sultan yes
day. The gravity of the situation is indi-
Gated in the calling of the ENJOYS of the
porte at Vienna, Berlin. st. Petersburg
and London to Constantinople. The
French ambassador, the Count of Monte
beilo, who was on the eve of presenting
his letters of recall to the sultan, has been
instructed by his government to remain at
his post in order to prevent the sultan,
under the pressure of other diplomats,
from weakening and breaking his resolu-
tions.
The latest intelligence from CONSTANT
nople indicates the continuous success of
Franco-Russian diplomacy in Turkey.
The sultan has offered place in the min
lstry To Chakir Pasha, a declared partisan
of Russian alliance, and known to be a foe
of England and the dreibund. The foreign
office here regards Englands difficulty
with complacency. Lord Salisbury's solici-
tations for diplomatic aid forces England
into closer union with the triple alliance,
and thus tends in the direction of bring
ing about formal compact between Eng
land and Germany, Austria and Italy.
Hitherto Lord Salisbury has rejected all
overtures looking to Fngland's becoming
party to the dreibunl compact.
The Post points out how the triple alli-
ance may be drawn into intervening
against Rudini committing Italy to active
armed support of England.
The Hamburger Correspondent contains a
sensational article entitled "The Cossack
Stroke on the Bosporus." According to
this article Russia meditates to surprise
Constantinople by conjoint landing of
30 900 troops in European and Asiatic Tur-
key. The Bosporus forts, it is said, are
to be attacked from the rear, and the ap-
proach of hostile fees to be prevented by
torpedoes, while it is calculated that the
Russian torpedo feet could enter the
Golden Horn at night and completely de-
stroy the Turkish feet, and that the
whole could be accomplished in twenty
four hours. Complete plans for every
thing are said to be ready, and only the
command from st. Petersburg is now
needed.
A report which is circulated in dipIo-
matte circles credits England with the in
tention to seize and fortify the Tenedos
and other islands at the mouth of the Oar
danelles in the event of failure 10 establish
a renewed entente with the porte.
LONDON, Sept. 12-The st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Times says: Prepar'
atoms for a general mobilization of all
forces in April, 1898, are being made.