Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-10
BUT THE MAIN INDEMNITY
She Still Hopes to Finger With the Aid ct sH5 Albion.
SITUATION IN THE EAST IS CRITICAL
German Press Sentiment Mildly taVors the Porte-The Monks of Mariaberg Sue '-.Ha fer Libel-The Awful Havoc
 of Recent Floods.

Berlin, June 1.-The news of the Fran co-Russian loan of $S0,000,000 to China has proved to be a diSagreeable surprise both to the government and to the lead CTS in financial circles, who had been relying upon official action to secure a large share of the Chinese loan for Ger many Immediately upon receipt Of the news of the Russian coup the members of d German syndicate of which the royal Sehandlung is the head communicated with the financial department Of the government upon the prospects of Ger ,many's securing the main indemnity, one which will amount to $150, ,G0O,U00 or $2O0, 600, ,000, and negotiations were also resumed by the syndicate with the Lon don Rothschilds on the question of CO., operation of English bankers in the scheme. The syndicate has received prompt assurance that the government will intervene to obtain for Germany share in such further financial arrange ments as China may require, as the SS0 600, 600 now guaranteed by Russia cov- CTS only the indemnity to Japan for the surrender of the Liao Tung peninsula.
 German financial houses are confident that China must have recourse to them to float the larger loan, which Russia could not guarantee nor French fnan- cicrs supply without outside assistance. The German syndicate, with the appTov- al of the government, will therefore seek an entente with the English fnan- cial houses In the matter of the larger loan. In the meantime the political inn portance of the IFranco-Russan ar engagement is felt, and it is probable that the loan will not be admitted into the German and, English markets. This, at least, is the feeling of the syndicate which includes in it's membership the Bleiehroders, the National bank of Ger many, Behren & Sons of Hamburg, Won Derhret & Co.,, the Dresden bank, the Schaafthausen bank, Veiren and other leading financial institutions
 Baron Von Saurma Jedtsch, formerly German ambassador at Washington and now representing the empire in Constan- tinople, has lately been in Berlin and re- ceiVed orders to enter upon his new du- ties without delay.
 Chancellor Won Hohenlohe is keeping in touch with the government at Vienna in obedience to the emperor's instruc- tions, which point toward a cautious, but independent policy, with tendency rather hostile to English intervention in Turkey. The chancellor has been ap- preached by Russia upon the subject of a conference of ambassadors in regard to the Turkish situation, but has not yet given any reI ly.
 The North German Gazette, whose ar tcles on the subject are in strong con trast to those of most other papers, which denounce the porte, continues a mild defense of the sultan. Referring to the demands made upon Turkey by the three powers the Zeitung says the porte seems to be doing all it can to abate and Counteract the religious hatrads which arc disturbing the Turk ish empire. and the Christian powers ought certainly to give the sultan credit for desiring peace within his realm and not make demands with which he is un- able to comply. The language of the Zeitung gives strength to the report that the sultan is being supported by German and Austrian influences.
 The Pesther Lloyd whose editor, pr. Max Talk, has a leading official posi- tion upon the foreign commission of the Hungarian delegation, denounces the mad policy of the English liberal cabinet in. reversing the traditional friendship of England towards Turkey to the advan- tage Of Russia. Dr. Talk is now in Vii enlia with the Hungarian delegation and has the best possible chance of knowing theqviews of the imperial government, which his article undoubtedly expresses. The Pesther Lloyd, in it's issue of Fri day, calls upon Count Goulochowski to explicitly and emphatically declare his policy in order to prevent an outbreak of war by announcing that the triple al- llanees desiring to keep peace in the Balken peninsula, will intervene to re- store the normal relations between the porte and the powers.
 The Nossicne Zeitung expresses an opinion that the situation was never at any time so critical as tits now since the Russian armies were before Constanti- nople.
 The Aachen court sat all last week in the trial of an action for libel brought against journalist named Max. Scharre and two others for defaming the char acters of the Monks of Mariaberg in ac- cusing them of maltreatiDg lunatics con fined in their institution. The defense succeeded in proving that the accused monks were mostly illiterate working men, and that they had resorted to the old methods of controlling their patients by torture confning them in chains, beating them and even exposing some of the inmates in semi-nude state to the heat of intense fires. The entire scandal rose from the case of a Scotch priest named Forbes, who went to the monks asylum to be cured of intemperance. Forbes succeeded in getting away from the place and immediately disclosed the practices of the monks and their attend ants. The case was closed on Saturday by the 'acquittal of Scharre and his as- sociates. The National Zeitung of Mu- nich. the Allegemein Zeitung and other papers are clamoring for the prosecution of the monks and the public feeling against them is so strong that the police are obliged to protect them from mob violehce.
 are several other candidates for the va- ! cant-post of chief of the Berlin police.
 mt among those mentioned is
 n Kessler, prefect of the Magde-
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