The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-02
TEUToNS STAND BY THE TURK.
THE KAISER BLOCKS ENGLAND's
PLANS AT CONsTANTINOPLE.

Claim That Austria and Italy Are
in Accord With Him-Hundreds of
Armenians at HarpOOt i'm Danger
of Starving to Death-FIight TO
ConstantinOpIe Merely Brings De-
portatiOn Back to the Place
whence They Fled.
Berlin, Dec. Without aiming at or in
the slightest degree desiring to rebuff
the policy of the British government to
exert urgent pressure upon the Sultan
OF Turkey, the diplomatic action of Ger
many in Constantinople has given Lord
Salisbury a decided check. The reluct-
ance of the sultan to permit each power
10 send a second dispatch boat through
the straits of the Dardanelles has been
fortified by the receipt of communica-
tions by the sultan which passed through
the hands of the German ambassador
at Constantinople intimating that the
kaiser regarded a naval demonstration in
the Levant or an increase of the number
of guard boats at Constantinople as in
opportune.
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 permission to send
second guard ship through the straits,
and asserts, also upon authority, that
neither Italy nor Austria would avail her
self of the privileges accorded by a fir-
man allowing the passing of a second
guard ship, even If it should be granted.
Whatever feelings the English govern
ment may entertain upon finding their
second dispatch boat debarred from en-
tering the straits England will most like
ly ascribe the action of the sultan to a
change of attitude on the part of the Ger
man government. which has all along
been reluctant to admit that anything
like coercion of the sultan was likely to
be necessary. The Berlin government
from the first has held that extreme
measures would be inopportune and has
steadfastly adhered TO its refusal to lend
Germany S strength to the carrying out
of any policy designed to break up the
Ottoman empire. This attitude is in pre-
else conformity with the policy of the
emperor and it is well known TO all di-
plOmats who have been engaged in the
negotiations with Germany in regard to
the slightest detail, Consequently Ger
many has had nothing whatever to do
with any change in 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 other ambassadors to the adoption
of extreme measures against the sultan.
IN official circles here, Sir Philip Currie
took It upon himself to bully
the the comBi5s6 5S5s5 watfs with threat that
ers would force passage through the
Dardanelles if the demands of the powers
for permits admitting additional dis
CrV1 n fnn f14pao
caused Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish min
lister of foreign affairs, to assent to the
presence Of a British gunboar at Constan-
tlnople, upon the strength of which Sir
Philip Currie requested Admiral Seymour
commanding the British Mediterranean
squadron to send a gunboat to the Dar-
acknowledged by the immediate dispatch
Of the gunboat Dryad to Turkish waters.
The sultan was afforded time to consult
with the other foreign ambassadors with
the result that he was enabled 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 action in
turkey, the German official press have
been instructed to keep up the fiction that
the concert of the powers is unimpaired
Ihe North German Gazette on Friday
mace an attack upon the policy of Eng
lahd as lmperilling the territorial strength
OF the Turkish empire, yet it still pro
claims that the concord of opinion among
the powers as well as the common aim of
the European governments is being main
tained
The Cologne Gazette strongly objects TO
the attempts to discriminate between the
Sctlon OF Germany and any other power,
put declares that the idea favored by Eng
Iahd OF the disruption of the Turkish en-
pre- was never entertained bV the German
government, the sole aim of whose diplo-
macy is to exert its good relations with
the sultan for the benefit of the general
interest Of Europe.
The wild schemes for the partition of
turkey which have been so widely and
persistently discussed in the English press
nave made most unfavorable impression
here. The North German Gazette calls
them fantastic and regrets the fact that
they are not confined to the newspapers
alone, but that their propagation prevails
in higher quarters.
Public opinion in Great Britain" +" the
Gazette adds, is taking a direction en-
urely different from that taken by con-
tinental opinion. No German, Austrian or
Italian statesman has ever talked about
the 'Unspeakable Turk or discussed tbe
policy OF breaking uP-the Turkish empire
The National Zeitung SAYS: Nothing
better could be desired to lead to a Euro
pean war than these plans of Turkish dis
rupton, the chief object of which is to
aggrandise the empire of Great Britain"
London, Dec. 1.-The representative at
Constantinope of the United Press. tele-
graphing under yesterdays date pictures
a pitiable condition of affairs at Harpoot
where the American mission huiIdings
were burned at the time of the recent
massacre there. There is great danger of
hundreds of the poorer classes of Arme-
mans starving to death. The peril that
contronts these people is an Immediate
one. They are absolutely without food
ana without the means of getting anv
me American missionaries have sent
thousands of dollars to relieve this dis
tress, but the sums furnished by them have
gone but a little way towards warding
on the famine which threatens The mon
ey has been expended as advanta ageouslv
as possible, but there are so many per-
sons VINO are homeless, foodless and helm
Tess that nothing but government relief
Will save them from great disaster
ne people are now in condition of
apathy. and many would welcome death
az lhe hands OF their enemies rather than
70 await the slow process of starvation
some however who have a. little money
OF their own, or who have been secretly
assisted by comparatively well to do com
patriots, are fleeing to small places In
me interior where they hope to better
tneir miserable condition. They run the
Ilsk or being massacred en- route as the
government viii not furnish them lie
slightest protection.
hose Armenians who have fed 10 Con
slanilnople thinking that in the capital
tney would be more or less under the pro-
lecilon OF the representatives, Of the va
nous powers, have found their holHs
AnsIeG tho Ground Harhana q ff