The record-union., 1895-11-18
She is Now Willing to Discuss the
Turkish Question
WITH REGARD TO UNITED ACTION
IN TURKEY
So Far as Providing Protection to
Christians and Maintaining Order
are Conceraed-Fear of q Catastro-
phe In Constantinople the influence
Which Directed German Diplomacy
to Energetic Action.

BERLIN, Nov. 17.-Prince Won
Eohenlohe, since his conference with
the Emperor on Thursday, has init
mated to Count Goluchowski, Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, that Ger
many will consent to discuss the ques-
ton of united action on the part OF the
European Powers toward Turkey so lar
as providing protection to Christians
and maintaining order are concerned.
Although this assent does not commit
Germany to any definite policy beyond
participating in negotiations, it still
marks a considerable change in the otfl-
cial attitude of the Government, which
has hitherto been reluctant to admit
that anything like coercion of the Sui
tan is likely to be necessary.
The expectation which is entertained
in official quarters that this decision of
the Government will influence the Sui
tar is based upon the belief that the
Kaiser retains the friendship and con-
hdence of the Turkish Emperor. since
he and the Emperor visited CONSTANT
nople in 1889, the German Emperor is
the only European monarch the Sultan
has personally met, and the two soVer-
eigns have every year since the visit eX-
changed friendly greetings.
Rut the most potent factor in con-
Vincing the Sultan of the desire of Ger
many for a policy of moderate inter
Vention in Turkey is the information
which has been conveyed through
Prince Radolin, the German EmbaSsa-
dor at st. Petersburg, that the over
lures made by Italy and Great Britain
looking TO the adoption of extreme
measures have been rejected as being
inopportune.
i
the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
which is believed 20 be supported by
Lord Salisbury, that England should
establish a coalition with the Dreibund
i'll the event Of the breaking up of the
Ottoman Empire, has not commended
itself to the Berlin Government as being
Ii the meanwhile worthy OF discussion,
and the tone of the semi i-official press
Is, in consequence, with the policy OF the
Government.
The Hamburger correspondent admits
that a fear of a catastrophe in Con-
stantinOple has Influenced German di
plOmacy to energetic action, out the
paper still expresses hope that such
action viii be directed toward aVerting
final disaster to the Sultan. The Ma
tional Zeitung goes a little further than
its Hamburg contemporary in declaring
that the best and most direct way OF
preserving peace is the honest intro
whole Turkish Empire, treating Chris
tians and MOslens alike, but no semi
official newspaper has yet taken pessi-
mistic view of the situation of the Forte.
The correspondents of German news
papers in ConstantinOple, who are now
keeping pace in respect of the abund-
ance and accuracy of the information
they are supplying TO their respective
journals with all competitors, agree in
cOnceding that the new Grand ViZieT,
Famil Pasha, and Tewfik Pasha, the
new Minister Of Foreign Affairs, are
men of pure intentions and consider
able ability. TeWfik PaSha, while he
was for a number of years the En-
baSsadOr of the Turkish Empire to this
capital, was a well-knOwn figure in Ber-
lin society, and earned the reputation of
being pleasant gentleman and diplo-
mat aYerse to getting into trouble,
but rathered fancied leading quiet and
enjoyable life. Rifat Pasha, according
to the correspondent of the Tagebla1t,
though an old man with snow white
hair, has the energy of a man in the
prime of life, combined with ample
diplomatic craft and readiness to fight
his opponents upon the slightest provo
cation. He viii not allow the palace
clique to suppress him as they did IZia-
mil Pasha, and it will go hard with
anybody who may attempt ii. In an
interview with the Tageblatt's CORE
spondent, the Grand Vizier expressed
with much warmth his satisfaction
that Germany had not joined in the
English and general foreign policy or
denouncing the Turks, denunciations
which, he declared, were as unrestraIn-
cd as they were unjust.
In regard to Russia's occupation of
Armenia under the administration Of
an international commission, the
Frankfurter Zeitung publishes a telc-
crar, from IFS cOrTQSpOudent in Con-
stantinople asserting that NJ. Nelidoif.
the Russian ambassador TO CONSTANT
NOBLE. has declared that Russia would
not accept the mandate of the Powers
in the pacifcation of Armenia.
It is reported that the prosecution of
Professor Hans DOlbroeuck. editor of
the Preussische Jahnbucher for at
tacking Herr Yon Koeller the Prussian
Minister of the Interior and the polit-
ical police is to be abandoned, public
opinion against such action having
been too strong to be antagonized with
safety to the Ministry and the prose-
cutting authorities have been instructed
to confine their disciplinary measures
to smaller game.
The Judgment of the Supreme Court
at Leipsic in the case of Herr Zieme is
regarded as a defeat of the socialistic
propaganda and is especially so looked
upon within the army. The case has
been pending for a long time. Zieme,
unon the eve of the calling upon Of the
recruits. 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.
/ expect you TO still do your duty as So
cIalists" He was at once arrested, and
the court in Berlin before which he was
tried for his Incorporate remarks final
II acquitted him of the charge of incit-
ing the military to disobey orders, on
the ground that he had not addressed
himself 10 recruits who had been sworn
in The question was then carried to
the Supreme Court at Leipsic, before
which the Imperial prosecutor pleaded
that Zieme belonged to the reserves,
and therefore fell under the jurisdiction
of the military authorities, and also
rnaintained that the military code ap
piled to socialist meetings where prob
able recruits were assembled. The Su-
prerne Court reversed the judgment of
the Berlin court, and the decision fixes
the law enlarging the powers Of repres-
sion with which authorities are clothed.
The matter will now be the subject of
interpretations in the Reichstag.
The election Of a new President of the
Reichstag 10 succeed Baron Won Buel
Harenberg is already being generally
discussed, and the members Of that
body are generally agreed that it is de-
s5..,ble to raise the prestige of the Pres
ident OF the Reichstag by selecting for
the position some parliamentary nota-
ble like DR. Won Bennigsen, though il is
doubtful whether he Will consent to
leave the high and lucrative functions
OF President of the Province of Hano
yer for the troublesome and merely
honorary post of President of the
Eeichstag The Centrists are in eX-
,,o,,5 alton Of Leading member of their