The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-02

BERLIN, Dec. I.-N1tnOuI aIliilllS O.
or in the slightest degree desiring 10 re-
buff the policy of the British Govern
ment to exert urgent pressure upon the
Sultan of Turkey, the diplomatic acIloh
of Germany in Constantinople has given
Lord Salisbury a decided check Inc
reluctance of the Sultan to permit each
Power to send a second dispatch BOAT
through the Straits of the Dardaneiles
has been fortified by the receipt OF
communication by the Sultan Whlcn
passed through the hands of the Ger
man ambassador at Constantinople, in
timating that the Kaiser regarded a ma
val demonstration in the LeVant or an
increase of the number of guard-boats
at Constantinople as inopportune
The Cologne Gazette, in its issue OF
last evening, stated upon authority
that the Governments at Rome and
Vienna were in complete accord with
the Berlin Government in its turkish
policy. The Gazette makes the point
that Germany has not asked for per-
mission to send a second guardShlp
through the straits and asserts also
upon authority that neither Italy nor
Austria would avail herself of the pow
ers accorded by a firman allowing the
passage Of a second guardboat even IL
it should be granted.
Whatever feeling the English Govern
ment may entertain upon forwarding
their second dispatch boat, debarred
from entering the straits, England Is
unable to aScribe the action of the Sui
tan to a change Of attitude on the part
of the German Government, which has
all along been reluctant to admit that
anything like coercion of the Sultan was
likely to be necessary. The Berlin Gov
eminent from the first has held that eX-
IRENE measures would be inopportune,
and has steadfastly adhered to its re-
fusal 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 we'll known to all diplomats who have
been engaged on the negotiations with
Germany in regard to Turkey that it
has not been altered in the slightest de-
tail Consequently, Germany has had
nothing whatever to do with any change
III the situation that may have taken
place.
If the concert of the Powers has been
disturbed it is due to the action of Sir
Philip Currie, the British ambassador
at Constantinople who endeavored to
commit the German and the other En-
baSsadors to the adoption Of extreme
measures against the Sultan. Accord
ing to a report which is credited in Off
cial circles here, Sir Philip Currie took
il upon himself TO bully the Sultan with
a threat that the combined fleets of the
Powers would force a passage through
the DardanelleS if the demands of the
Powers for permits admitting addi-
tiCnal dispatch boats We're not granted.
This threat caused TeWfik PaSha, the
Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs,
to assent to the presence of British
gunboat at ConstantinOple, upon the
strength of which Sir Philip Currie re-
quested Admiral Seymour, command
ing the British Mediterranean squad
ron, to send a gunbOat to the Darda-
nelles forthwith which request was
acknowledged by the immediate dis
patch of the gunboat Dryad to Turk
ish waters. Meanwhile, however, the
Sultan was afforded time to consult
with the other foreign ambassadors,
with the result that he has been en-
abled 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 to a plan of ac-
ton in Turkey, the German official
press have been instructed to keep up
the fiction that the concert of the Pow
ers is unimpaired. The North German
Gazette on Friday made an attack on
the policy of England as imperiling the
territorial strength of the Turkish en-
pire yet it still proclaims that the con-
cord of opinion among the Powers as
well as the common aim of the Euro
pean Governments is being maintained
The Cologne Gazette strongly objects
to the attempts to discriminate between
the action of Germany and any other
Power. but declares that the idea ia
vored by England of the disruption OF
the Turkish empire was never enter
tanned by the German Government, the
sole aim of whose diplomacy is to exert
It's good relations with the Sultan for