The San Francisco call., 1895-11-18
Optimistic Reports Of the Real
Situation in Turkey
Circulated.
FAvORs MODERATE MEASURES
Reluctant to Admit That Anything
Like Coercion of the Porte
Is Necessary.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Nov. l7.-Prince
Won HohenIohe, since his conference with
the Emperor on Thursday, has intimated
to Count Goluchowski, Austrian Minister
OF Foreign Affairs, that Germany will con-
sent to discuss the question OF united
action on the part of the European powers
toward Turkey, so far as providing protec-
ton to Christians and maintaining order
were concerned. Although this assent does
not commit Germany to any definite policy
beyond participating in negotiations, it
still marks a considerable change in the
official attitude of the Government, which
has hitherto been reluctant 10 admit that
anything like coercion of the Sultan is
likely to be necessary.
i: The expectation which is entertained in
official quarters that this decision of the
Government will influence the Sultan is
based upon the belief that the Kaiser re-
tains the friendship and confidence Of the
Turkish Emperor. Since Kaiser Viii
liam visited Constantinople in 1899, the
German Emperor is the only European
monarch the Sultan has personally met,
and the two soyereigns have every year
since the visit exchanged friendly greet
ings.
But the most potent factor in convincing
the Sultan of the desire of Germany for a
policy of moderate intervention in Turkey
is the information which has been con-
veyed through Prince Radolin, the Ger
man ambassador at st. Petersburg, that
the overtures made by Italy and Great
Britain looking to the adoption of ex-
treme measures have been rejected as be-
ing inopportune. The idea advanced by
Baron Blanc, the Italian Minister of For
eign Affairs, which is believed to be sup
ported by Lord Salisbury. that England
should establish a coalition with the Drei-
bund in the event of the breaking up OF
the Ottoman empire, has not commended
itself to the Berlin Government as being
in the meantime worthy of discussion, and
the tone of the semi-official press is in con-
sequence satisfied with the policy OF the
Government.
The Hamburger Correspondent admits
that a fear of catastrophe in Constant
nozzle has influenced German diplomacy
TO energetic action, but the paper still ex-
presses hope that such action will be di-
rected toward averting final disaster to the
Sultan.
The National Zeitung goes little further
than its Hamburg contemporary in de-
claring that the best and most direct way
OF preserving peace is the honest introduc-
ton of reforms throughout the whole
Turkish empire, treating Christians and
Moslems alike. But no semi-official news
paper has as yet taken a pessimistic view
OF the situation of the Porte.
The correspondents of German newspa-
pers in Constantinople, who are now keep
ing pace in respect of the abundance and
accuracy of the information they are sup
plying to their respective journals with all
competitors, agree in conceding that the
new Grand Vizier, Hamil Pasha, and Tew-
fix Pasha, the new Minister of Foreign
Affairs, are men of pure intentions and
considerable ability. Tewfik Pasha, while
he was for number of years the Embassa-
dor OF the Turkish empire to this capital,
was a well-known figure in Berlin society,
and earned the reputation of being a
8 pleasant gentleman and a diplomat who
was averse to getting into trouble, but
rather faIcied leading a quiet and enjoy
able life. Rifat Pasha, according to the
correspondent of the Tagblatt, though an
old man with snow-white hair, has the
energy of man in the prime of life, COM
bined with ample diplomatic craft and a
readiness to fight his opponents upon the
slightest proyocation. He will not allow
the palace clique to suppress him as they
did Kiamil Pasha, and it will go hard with
anybody who may attempt it. In an in
terview with the Tagblatt's correspondent,
the Grand Vizier expressed with much
warmth his satisfaction that Germany had
not joined in the English and general for
eign policy of denouncing the Turks, de-
nunciatlons which, he declared, were as
unrestrained as they were unjust.
In regard to Russias occupation of
Armenia under the administra ton of an
international commission, the Frankfurter
Zeitung publishes a telegram from its
correspondent in Constantinople asserting
that NJ. Nelidoff, the Russian Embassador
to Constantinople, has declared that
Russia would not accept the mandate of
the powers in the pacification of Armenia
1t is reported that the prosecution of
Professor Hans Dolbroeck, editor of the
Preussische Jahrbucher for attacking Herr
Won Koeller, the Prussian Minister of the
Interior and the political police, is to be
abandoned, public opinion against such
action having been found too strong to be
antagonized with safety to the Ministry,
and the prosecuting authorities have been
instructed to confne their disciplinary
measures to smaller game.
The judgment of the Supreme Court at
Leipsic in the case of Herr Zeime is re-
garded as a defeat OF the Socialist propa-
ganda, and is especially SO looked upon
within the armv The casa hoe hoox>
pending for a long time. Zeime, upon the
eve of the calling in of the recruits drafted
in 1894, delivered a harangue to the young
workingmen OF Berlin, in which he said:
"You are about to be deprived of your
freedom and enter into slavery, 1 expect
you to still do your duty as Socialists
He was at once arrested, and the court
in Berlin before which he was tried for his
Incorporate remarks finally acquitted him
OF the charge of melting the military to