The San Francisco call., 1895-11-03
affects England's perception of the reali-

Chinese, but in both cases it is manifest |
that England's and Russia's interests are |
now defined as hostile.
henry Norman, who has been in Con- |
stantlnople for fortnight for the Daily |
Chronlcle, says to-day, under date of Octo-
Der 70, that the Sultan will die or be killed |
very shortly and that the revolution is |
matter OF weeks. He writes excitedly and
perhaps sees things unduly red, but from
all quarters OF Turkey come vivid tales of
a complete breakdown in the Official
machinery and universal reign of murder
Gus anarchy. 1t is said that in Constanti-
nople itself the Armenians and the Young
Turkish party have made a combination,
and that an uprising is to be concerted by
Christians and progressive Mohammedans
together, but in the provinces they seem
not to have heard of this arrangement, for
savage massacres are proceeding on strictly
racial lines.
The Standards correspondent asserts
positively that the Armenian committee
arranged the recent bloody riot at Bitlis
and also lnstigated and managed Thurs
day the panic-stricken run on the Ottoman
Bank. Others lay the blame on the Turk
ish rabble, who are pictured running
amuck among the Armenians, and all
sides reflect the conviction that if the wild
disorder that is now epidemic throughout
the empire be not checked within the next
few days the whole politico-social struct-
ure of the Osmanlis will go to pieces and
prompt intervention of outsiders become
inevitable.
England's anxious lookout for possible
allies continues. Italy, of course, is counted
as a certainty, and large hopes are built on
Austria. Most moderate lines of English
leanings in the Vienna press are tele-
graphed 10 London and clutched at with
quite pathetic eagerness here, but it is to-
ward Berlin that most nervous glances are
directed and apprehensive ears strained,
and everything there is coldly buttoned
up motionless and silent.
The German official papers, when they
mention England at all, do so slightingly
This may signify only that Germany is
holding out for price. If so, England de-
sires to know what it is to pay, because
the terror of the present isolation is getting
into the marrow OF her bones. 1t was al
most touching to note the hutter of de-
light with which the people here the other
day welcomed the statement by cable that
all but few jingo journals in America
displayed sympathy with England as
against Russia in the event of trouble in
the far East.
The English were never able to compre-
hend at all why any Americans should
wish them i'll, particularly when Russia
was involved. Only last week a high Off
cial here said to me that to him the most
incomprehensible thing on earth was why
the Americans should not make common
cause with people of their own blood,
language and civilization like the men of
British Guiana, but should befriend wholly
un-Americans like the VenezueIans.
The arrival of the Guiana Governor and
his report that the whole Venezuelan busi-
ness is of the mos. trivial character afforded
immense relief here. There has been
growing up a certain uneasiness lest
Chamberlain might manage to embroil
the British relations at Washington which
every body would have resented as gratuit-
Gus, mischievous nonsense An intimate
friend of Dufferin's says that all reports
that he is to succeed Salisbury or any one
else are untrue. He is too old, extremely
deaf, wholly tired out and looks forward
eagerly to retirement from public life next
year.
calamitous nature of the shape that the
shipbuildlng crisis has now assumed.
Continental politics, especially when they
are boiling, as at present, have such a
fascination for the British press and the
reading public that up to now small men
tion has been given to this really serious
domestic matter.
Next week, however, it will be certain of
its full share of notice, for with the lock-
out order on the Clyde for Tuesday the
most important industrial fight that the
British have known will be in full blast.
In the number of men involved in the
deadlock it will not compare, of course,
with many others of recent times but in
value to the nation of interests involved
and in the danger of irrevocable damage
to the country it has no parallels. The
great builders of the Clyde and OF Belfast
say that they are forced to stand together,
because if one began to cut the other in
wages, or other matters, it would be i'm
possible for either to maintain himself
against foreign competition, hence an
| agreement of masters under which the
| Clyde firms now shut out their men be-
cause the Belfast men are on strike. 1t is
suspected that three Clyde firms which got
the Admiralty contracts will withdraw
from the association and keep their yards
open, but even if they do this will affect
the situation only slightly.
Another aspect of the matter is the i'm
mense impetus that this northern trouble
will give to the Tyneside yards, where
during the week orders for three big JAP
anese warships were placed But enter
prising as the Newcastle men are they can
accommodate only fraction of the work
which the Clyde and Belfast send begging.
and already important contracts have gone
to the German yards at Stettin and Dant-
zig and others are reported to be trans
ferred to America. The experience of
London shows that ship-buiding is the
most difficult of industries to get back
once it is disestablished, and the possibility
that the enormous business of the CIyde
and Belfast, incomparably the greatest in
the world, is to be ruined and dispersed
may well frighten the whole nation.
AS was obvious it would happen. the
English Tories are beginning to write the
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