The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-24
Applicants for decentralization
Will Be Compelled to Do
Military Duty.
DOINGs IN WILLIAMS DOMAIN.
The Emperor Evidently Pleased With
the Policy of Austria Relating
to Turkish Questions.

DChLlN, OERMANf, NOV. Zo.-lno Der
lin Central authorities, acting cojointly
with the represent atives of the War Office,
have ordered an inquiry as to what extent
young Germans emigrating seek to evade
military service, and then in later years re-
turn and ask to be renaturalized.
The large number of cases of applica-
tions for standardization in recent years
from COMMUNICATIONS have instigated
the Government inquiry. Youths under
II years of age, to whom passes for immi-
grafton cannot be refused, have gone to
America, remained away a number of
years-in the meantime becoming Amer
lean citiZens-and returned. These have
been allowed to become renaturalized
without being required to perform military
service.
These war officers now propose that
military service shall be enforced in all
cases where it is apparent that emigration
was made with view of evading military
service. All applicants will be readily
met and restored to German citizenship,
but no matter what their age may be, they
will be called upon to fulfill military duty
in the future.
Before going to Letzlingen on his hunt.
ing trip, the Emperor gave an audience to
M. Deszogenyi- Marich, the Austrian EN-
bassador to Germany. with whom he had
a prolonged conference, and upon his re-
turn from Letzlngen on Tuesday his
Majesty invited himself upon very short
notice to dine with the Austrian Embas-
sador.
Obviously this latter act of courtesy was
intended to emphasize the entetne between
Germany and Austria upon the situation
in the East as well as to enable his Majesty
to learn the latest phase of the diplomacy
of Count Goluchowski, the Austrian Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs. The confidence
felt in official circles here that the Sultan
will be successful i'll preserving order in
European Turkey and carrying out the
reforms in Armenia is increasing. Accord
ing to the correspondent of the Hamburg
Correspondent in Constantinople, the in
terviews had with the Sultan by Baron de
Calico, the Austrian ambassador to
Turkey, have assisted in creating clearer
views of his practical grasp of the situa-
ton than have hitherto been held in off,
ciai circles in Vienna and Berlin. Baron de
Calico, speaking for both Austria and
Germany, made it clear to the Sultan that
the demands of the powers could not be
evaded and that disorders in every part
of Turkey must positively be suppressed
and administrative reforms taken up and
carried into effect.
In the course OF his interviews with the
Ottoman Emperor, Baron de Calico OBJ
tanned evidence that the Armenian COM
mittee in London had renewed their in
element to an uprising in Constantinople
but that the Sultan had become aware of
their designs and had been successful in
defeating them ALL
Semi-official newspapers which have
long been silent in regard to the situation
in the East, have now suddenly followed
the lead of the Correspondent in attacking
the Armenian committee for having in
cited agitation leading to outrages. The
Gazette on Friday, in an article quoting
the recent protest made by the Russian
ambassador at Constantinople to the
Armenian Patriarch, blames the Arme-
menian priests for exciting the people by
promises of armed assistance from
foreign countries.
The North German Gazette contends
that the existence Of an independent
Armenian State is impossible, having
neither geographic nor ethic unity. The
paper then attacks the London Armenian
committee, accusing them of employing
dishonest forms of agitation in sensational
kilograms and bogus stories of horrors de-
signed to work upon the British humani-
tartan sentiment, for the purpose of
forcing the British Cabinet to take action
against the Porte. The article concludes
by asserting that the Moslem inhabitants
of the disturbed villages have suffered
nearly as much as the Arm enians have
from the raids of the Kurds. Besides the
article from which the foregoing Is quoted,
the paper makes display of semi official
Constantinople dispatches, praising the
energy so splendidly displayed by the
Sultan during the crisis, proving his great
qualities as a sovereign, which are now
promising speedy and excellent results.
DIR. Stoecker's paper Das Volk publishes
without comment to-day the announce
ment that the ecclesiastical courts are
about to inquire into Stoecker's relations
with Baron Won Hammerstein. formerly
chief editor of the Kreuz Zeitung, who
absconded some time ago while under
charges of forgery and embezzleme nt.
The inquiry is not to be made upon the
initiative of the Emperor, but is rather
due to the representations of high ecclesi-
astics who are annoyed at DR.. Stoecker's
mention OF his post as court chap
lain, while he was at the same time
concerned in questionable politics asso-
ciated with his advocacy of Christian So
cialism and anti-Semitism. Since he
ceased to be court chaplain DR.. Stoecker
has not been seen in court circles, and his
disgrace is absolute. The inquiry is likely
to end in his being disciplined to an extent
involving his suspension from all clerical
functions. Now that both Stoecker and
Hammerstein are wiped out the Conserva-
tive leaders are projecting the reconstruc-
ton OF the party, so that it shall be free
from anti-Semitism. A committee of the
party leaders will meet on December 2 to
consider the situation, and it is
understood that their aim is to eff
feet a reunion with the Moderates.
who, under the lead of DR.. Won Helldorf.
seeded from the Conservatives in 1892.
when Baron Won Hamm erstein succeeded
in launching the bulk of the Conservative
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