The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-11-21
OUR LONDON Gable LETTER.
NEWS FROM THE EAST AND FAR
EAST is OF A DIsQUIET-
ING NATURE.
.DUNRAVEN GETS HIMSELF D|SL|KED.
His Pamphlet Alleging Fraud by the
New York Yacht Club Had an I'm
desirable Effect-Influenza Again
Becoming Prevalent,

LOnuOn, NOV. lO.-(COpyrlSnteu, 1850,
by the Associated Press. 1.-The news from
the East and far East during the week
has not been of nature calculated to
disperse or dissipate the clouds which
have been hanging heavily over the po-
litical horizon for long time past.
From Asia Minor came authenticated
reports of further massacres of Arme-
mans, during which the Turks seem to
have applied the torch to petroleum
soaked victims and TO have skinned others
alive, in addition to outraging women and
plundering property on all sides.
From the far East yesterday came a
report that it is positively stated at Shang-
hal that China has agreed that Germany
shall occupy one of the islands near Annoy
for the purpose of converting it into a
naval depot. Fears are expressed that
if the rumor turns out to be correst in
ternational complications of serious ma
ture will follow, as Russia and France,
not to mention Great Britain. are GER
tain to demand similar concessions.
Strange as it may seem, the offensive
vaporings of the Dunraven pamphlet still
fill the air hereabouts and his lordship
may be likened to an old man of the sea,
clinging tenaciously to the back of inter-
national sport determined, apparently, to
tire it out of existence.
But Dunraven will not find much conso-
lation in the comments upon his conduct
made in the weekly. newspapers, which,
speaking generally, condemn him in un-
mistakable terms.
The Saturday Review, for example,
says it finds it difficult to sympathize
with the feelings which induced Dunra-
ven to publish his extraordinary state
ment" and adds: Neither the matter
nor the manner inclines us in his favor.
He surely ought never to have mixed up
the serious charges of fraud with the COM
placent expression of his belief that in
various points Valkyrie is superior to
Defender. His assertions in regard to
the, interference seem to show that he
is incapable of Partially. He asks us
to believe that the captains of 800 COM
peting steamers entered into a conspira-
cy to give their wash to Valkyrie."
The Spectator says: "The ill-judged
pamphlet has done much to ALLEVIATE our
| sympathy and make us acknowledge that
| the supporters of the New York club have
ample grounds for the Indignation they
express"
Many Americans who are here and in
tended to winter in Egypt have changed
their minds, owing to the prevalence of
cholera in that country.
The official versions of the disturbances
in Asia Minor which are circulated by
the Turkish embassies are received with
| derision. In an analysis of the present
| Turkish cabinet by Turk, the premier
or grand vizier, Hall Rifat Pasha, is de-
scribed as an Ignorant bigot, shifty and
| most Enthusiastically"
Aarii Pasha, the minister with portfo-
| lilo, is said to be old and feeble and one
who flatters the sultan and gets bak-
| sheesh.
Said Pasha, the president of the coun-
! Gil of state, is said to be known as ''oX
| hide" and being quite untitled for his
position.
Twefk Pasha, the minister for foreign
| affairs, is, it appears, the sultan's conf
Dental chamberlain.
| A description of the British embassy
at Therpia, village about seven miles
from Constantinople, shows it to be well
and suitably situated in the event of a
| fanatical outbreak. The servants and
personnel of the embassy number about
80 men, and they are all well armed and
have plenty of ammunition. The fact
that these details are published here
| shows that in some quarters the belief
prevails that the British embassy is moi
entirely free from the responsibility OF
attack.
| The methods OF the big London pho
tographers are receiving an airing just
now in the columns of the Times. II
| has been the habit of these houses to ''re-
quest the honor" of sitting of royalties
beauties, stage celebrities, etc.. and il
appears that many thus accepting free
sittings under the English copyright law
unwittingly relinquish the copyright tc
the photographers, who then try to make
money out of them.
| "Blackmailers" has been the term
heard in all directions. The illustrated
papers seem to have been mulcted in al
kinds of ways. Members of the roya
| families are q large source of income
to this class of photographers.
| The British Medical Journal says that
there are distinct Indications of infu
enza again becoming prevalent. Deaths
| from influenza have occurred at Man
chester, Birmingham and Liverpool.
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