The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-11
CHE SITUATION IN EUROPE
OF GERMAN OFFICIALS
REMIINS NEARLY ABSOLUTE.


rhe Sultan Knows AustrIa's Power and
Disposition to Take Immediate Action
Nobody Believes That the Turks WIN be
Able to Weather the Crisis.
A Berlin, Nov. 1o.-The declarations of
Lord Salisbury in his speech last night
Ind the official statement made by M.
8erthelot, the French minister of for
eign affairs, in Paris, sum up every
hing Of an official character, that is
known here in regard to the eastern
Situation. The reticence of the German
Foreign office remains nearly absolute.
Since Austria, under the approval of
Germany, entered the European con-
pert the semi-official press says the
situation has cleared up materially:
The sultan knows Austria's power and
disposition to take immediate action
and breads that more than any other
thing that has yet menaced him and
in consequence these papers assert is
prepared to concede anything that may
be demanded of the porte. Although
Germany has Joined the European
league she certainly has not committed
herself to any project contemplating
"a European protectorate over Turkey,
the occupation of Armenia by Russia
or any other scheme which would in
volve any interference at present with
the powers of the sultan.
The North German Gazette declares
THAT the Christian inhabitants of Tur-
key in the meantime will be in no wise
Endangered
The correspondent of the Tageblatt
i'm Constantinople telegraphs that he is
lin position to affirm that no war;
llike complication is likely to arise from
the Armenian trouble and behind these
Soothing semi-official assertions remains
la combination of unexplained facts sug-
gesting that it is the intention of Ger
many to play the part of the honest
Ibroker in the matter. The principal
one of these facts is the action of Count
8Goulochowski, the Austrian secretary of
lstate for foreign affairs, in making
lovertures to Lord Salisbury calling at
tention to the fact that it would greatly
strengthen the position of England If
the triple alliance should be taken into
the alliance of powers on the Turkish
Questions under conditions that Austria
would institute operations if required
Ito protect the Macedonian population.
The assent of the English premier to
this virtual proposal was obtained un-
der Lord salisbury's conviction that
,England would require a strong back
ing against the coalition of Russia and
France when the time should arrive for
the partition of Turkey.
While peace reigns for the moment
under cautious ministerial utterances
nobody believes that the Turk will be
able to weather the crisis which con-
front him very much longer. 1t is
thought that the paramount interest
in the present position to the highest
official circle here lies in the hope that
the policy now being pursued will force
England into the dreHbund England has
from the central European coalition
without committing herself to any
thing, but the time has come when
she is confronted with the necessity of
choosing between fatal isolation and a
definite union with the continental pow
ers.
A semi-official paper in Hamburg, the
Correspondence, asks what practical
meaning lies in the declaration of the
English government that England will
maintain her policy. 1t also inquiries
what policy is referred to. The triple
alliance, the paper says, has not want
ed nor does 1t now want war and Rus
sia and France would not go very far
merely to help Armenia. The situation
in eastern Asia has also to be con-
sidered and in view of that situation
England ought least of all to be disposed
to drift into war. Her ultimate fate,
therefore, must be to choose allies.
In official circles the statement of
Lord Saiisbury's speech is regarded as
being as explicit as the situation will
permit and is generally considered sat
isfactory and reassuring.