The San Francisco call., 1895-12-02
SHIPS FOR THE LEVANT.
The Kaiser Regarded an Increase
OF Guard Boats at CONSTANT.
nople as Inopportune.
ITALY AND AUSTRIA IN ACCORD
Three Powers. That Will Oppose All
Efforts to Break Up the Ottoman
Empire.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Dec. 1.-Without
aiming at or in the slightest degree desir-
ing to rebuff the policy of the British Gov
ernment to exert urgent pressure upon the
Sultan OF Turkey, the diplomatic action of
Germany in Constantinople has given
Lord Salisbury a decided check. The re-
luctance of the Sultan to permit each
power to send a second dispatch boat
through the straits of the Dardanelles has
been fortified by the receipt of a COM
munlcation by the Sultan, which passed
through the hands of the German EN-
bassador at Constantinople, intimating
that the Kaiser regarded a naval demon
stration in the Levant or an increase of
the number of guard boats at Constan-
tinople as inopportune.
The Cologne Gazette, in its issue of last
evening, stated upon authority that the
Governments at Rome aud Vienna were IL
complete accord with the Berlin Govern
ment in its Turkish policy. The Gazette
makes the point that Germany has not
asked for permission to send a second
guardship through the straits and asserts
also upon authority that neither Italy nor
Austria would avail herself of the privilege
accorded by irman allowing the pass
ing of a second boat, even if it should be
granted. Whatever feelings the English
Government may entertain upon finding
their second dispatch boat debarred from
entering the straits, England is unable to
acscrlbe the action of the Sultan to
change OF attitude on the part of the Ger
man Government, which has all along
been reluctant to admit that anything like
coercion of the Sultan was likely to be
necessary.
The Berlin Government from the first
has held that extreme measures would be
inopportune and has steadfastly adhered
to its refusal to lend Germany's strength
to the carrying out of any policy designed
to break up the Ottoman empire. This
attitude is in precise conformity with the
policy of the Emperor, and it is well
known to all diplomats who have been en-
gagged on the negotiations with Germany
in regard to Turkey that it has not been
altered in the slightest detail. Conse-
quentIy Germany has had nothing what
ever TO do with any change in the situa-
ton that may have taken place. If the
concert of the powe has been disturbed
it is due to the action Of Sir Philip Currie,
the English Embassador at Constantine
pie, who endeavored to commit the Ger
man and the other ambassadors to the
adoption of extreme measures against the
Sultan.
According to a report which is credited
in official circles here Sir Philip Currie
took it upon himself to bully the Sultan
with threat that the combined fleets of
the powers would force a passage through
the Dardanelles if the demands of the
powers for permits admitting additional
dispatch boats was not granted. This
threat caused Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish
Minister of Foreign Affairs, to assent to
the presence of a British gunboat at Con-
stantinople, upon the strength of which
Sir Philip Currie requested Admiral Sey-
mour commanding the British Mediter-
ranean squadron, to send a gunboat to the
Dardanelles forthwith, which request was
acknowledged by the immediate dispatch
OF the gunboat Dryad to Turkish waters.
Meanwhile, however, the Sultan was af-
forded time to consult with the foreign
En- bassadors with the result that he was
enabled to resist the pressure of Great
Britain and the Dryad was Obliged to go
back to Salonica.
Despite the obvious differences among
the powers as 10 plan of action in Tur-
key the German official press has been in
structed to keep up the fiction that the
concert of the powers is unimpaired. The
North German Gazette on Friday made an
attack upon the policy of England as i'm
periling the territorial strength of the
Turkish empire, yet it still proclaims that
the concord OF opinion among the powers,
as well as the common aim of the Eu-
ropean Governments, IS being maintained.
The Cologne Gazette strongly objects to
the attempts to discriminate between the
the action of Germany and any other
power, but declares that the idea favored
by England of the disruption of the Tur-
kish empire was never entertained by the
German Government, the sole aim Of
whose diplomacy is to exert its good rela-
tions with the Sultan for the benefit of the
general interests of Europe.
The wild schemes for the partition of
Turkey which have been so widely and
persistently discussed in the English press
have made a most unfavorable impression
here. The North German Gazette calls
them fantastic and regrets the fact that
they are not confined to the newspapers
alone, but that their propagation prevails
in higher circles.
Public opinion in Great Britain" the
Gazette adds, sis taking direction en-
tirely different from that taken by Cont1-
mental opinion. No German, Austrian or
Italian statesman has ever talked about
the 'uns peakable Turk or discussed the
policy of breaking up the Turkish empire"
The National Zeitung says: Nothing
better could be desired to lead to Euro
pean war than these plans of Turkish dis
ruption, the chief object of which is to
aggrandize the empire of Great Britain"
The Berlin correspondent states that
Herr von Koeller the Prussian Minister OF
the Interior, day or two ago sought ana
an interview with Professor Hans
Delbrueck. the editor OF the Preusslsche
who was recently threatened
with prosecution by Herr Won Koeller Tor
having attacked the latter's policy, ana
particularly the methods pursued by MS
political police" the proceedings
being suddenly dropped in Difference
to public opinion, which was strongly IN
favor of the professor. The two gentlemen,