The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-16

IHSlfucIeu the E1nD4SSauOF 10
Turkey to Advise the Sultan That
Germany Must Go With the Allied
Powers.
BERLIN, Dec 15.-The climax Of
the strain between the Sultan and the
European Powers, the Sultan's assent
to the issuance of firmans permitting
the entrance of extra guardships into
the Dardanelles, was obtained under
the influence of his knowledge that
Germany's support would be with
drawn if he refused. Throughout the
diplomatic struggle the German EN-
bassador at Constantionple has been
under instructions from Berlin that
Germany should keep in the back
! ground, refraining from all initiative
action. The German Embassador was
often absent from the conferences OF
the ambassadors, but was always in
direct communication with the Sultan.
According to official information
here, the Emperor saw no necessity for
having a second guardship at Constan-
! tinople, and was strongly opposed to
through the DardanelleS. Finally how
ever, under pressure brought to bear
by Austria and Italy, the German En-
! baSSadOr was instructed to advise the
Sultan that Germany must go with the
allied Powers in the event that strong
measures should be required. At the
same time the Sultan received the as
surance of Germany that when the
| guardboat should be removed ample
time would be accorded to the Porte
to re-establish order in Asia Minor
| 1t is probable that reliance upon the
Kaiser's promise that no untimely pres
sure upon Turkey for reforms would
have the assent of Germany had more
influence upon the Sultan than did the
insistence of M. Nelidoff, Russian En-
bassador, and Sir Philip Currie, Brit
ish ambassador, that the frmans must
be granted
During the coming three months, if
. official expectations here are realized,
diplomatic action in Constantinople
will be relaxed A great deal more con-
fidence exists in Berlin in the Sultan's
intention to carry out the promised re-
forms in Asia Minor than seems to pre-
vail in other, and especially in Eng
lish official quarters. All the references
that are made on the subject in the
/ German semi-official press show this
| feeling, and indicate the predominance
of the opinion that no intervention of
the Powers in Turkey involving a
European war should be ventured
upon. German popular and official sym
pathy with the Armenians is keen, but it
is argued that a war leading to the
| slaughter of the European armies
would be a worse evil than anything
that has happened in Armenia.
The official organs in Vienna take a
similar view of the situation The
n III 1on C.r1fo
is anxious to prove his sincerity and
readiness to grant reforms, and hopes
to be able to carry out vigorously his
policy of restoring quiet among the
different races inhabiting Asia Minor.
In regard to the reported refusal OF
| Germany to permit the displacement of
Turkhad Pasha and the substitution of
Zia Pasha, Turkish ambassador at
Paris, as Turkish ambassador to Ger
many, nothing is definitely known. The
appointment of Zia Pasha is uncertain,
| but in any event the change of En-
| bassadors, even if Zia should be Sc
lected, viii not cause any discord be-
tween Germany and Turkey. A change
in the Turkish Ministry is understood
to be impending, which may restore
Tewfik Pasha to his post here, but if
Tewfik should retain Office in Constan-
tinople, Turkhad Pasha would be pre-
ferred as Turkish ambassador in Ber-
lin to any other Ottoman diplomat who
would be likely to be selected.
The Ministerial references which
have been made in the Reichstag to
the barring out of American insurance
companies from transacting any fur
| ther business in Prussia have lacked
| that strict accuracy which an honest
statement ought to give. The asser-
tion Of Freiherr Marschall Won Bieber-
stein, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that
the companies were suppressed solely
| because they did not choose to comply
With the regulations affecting home and
| foreign insurance alike, totally ignored
| the fact that the rules which were en-
| forced against the American companies
were drawn up in 1891 by the Prussian
| Minister of the Interior purposely to
| wipe out American insurance compa-
Eies. At the time these regulat tions were
| concocted, their strong anti-American
bias was frankly avowed by the Off
Gals Of the Home Office IT can further
| be stated upon authority that Geheim-
lrath Knibel Doberitz of the Home Office
! openly admitted to the manager of an
American insurance company that the
| Home Office was searching for a way to
block out the American insurance bus
mess from Prussia, and that he him
| self could not rest until he had sue
| ceeded in doing So
| The inaction of Conservatives In the
| Reichstag during the oratorical encoun-
ters between the Socialist leaders and
| the Ministry is attributed to their dread
of drawing out a disclosure of the doc
uments belonging to Baron Won Ham
merstein, the absconding ex-editor Of
the kreuz Zeitung, which are in pos
session of the Socialists. Many mem
/ bers of the Right are compromised in
the Hammerstein letters, and they ad-
vised the practical effacement of the
/ M - III ftoer 2 1,
Reichstag in order to retard the rev
clation3 which it was in the power of
the Socialists to make
Since Wednesdays sitting. when
Herren Bebel and Liebknecht declared
their intention to publish these letters
at the moment it should be deemed op-
perfume those of the Conservatives in
the Reichstag who have nothing to
fear from their publication have de-
manded that the leaders of the Right
| should put an end 10 the intolerable
situation, which the Socialists could
prolong at their pleasure, or as long as
the Conservatives permitted them
selves to be paralyzed by the Social
lists threats.
The introduction of an emphatic res
olution challenging the production of
the letters is now deemed the best
course TO be pursued by the party. al
though ii is known that in Hammer
STEMS correspondence there are letters
from certain Conservative leaders in
which passages abound containing
| expressions In which Lese Majestic is
rot lacking. The President of the
/ Reichstag can, of course interdict the
reading of such passages, but he cannot
prevent the Socialists from showing
that the Conservatives, the rhetorical
defenders of the throne, commit lese
ma aieste quite as readily as any mem
her. of the sunpresSed Socialist assncia-