The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-15
But Then There Is No SYM
pathy for the Toplofty
Lord Dunraven.
WAR CLOUDS OVER THE WORLD.
Harold Frederic Sees Signs of
Brewing Trouble In Many Quar-
tiers OF the Globe.
copyright, 1895, by the New York Times.l

the international yacht race. As was said
last week there was no preliminary ex-
element here whatever, and the apparent
demonstration at the start that the VAL
kyrie was unmatched did not serve to fan
the smoldering ashes into flame, but the
breaking up of the contest in snarl has
put an entirely different face on the mat
ter, and everybody suddenly has developed
an extreme concern in the whole affair.
So far as press comment goes, the
Times has been notably courteous and
fair-minded in the discussion of the entire
matter, and other papers have been less so
in varying degrees down to the Daily
Chronicle, which habitually reviles every
thing American with the temper and in
telligence of small Partisan paper yap-
ping at "Perfide Albion" The Daily
Chronicle is SO excellent journal in most
other respects that this chronic alteration
may be regarded as a harmless eccen-
tricity.
1t is fair to guess that the Times con-
siderate attitude toward the Americans
position is due to the fact that it knows
Lord Dunraven much better than other
papers do. With all his sportsmanlike
qualities he is toplofty person, whose
career by land and sea has been filled with
misunderstanding, disagreements and
contentious without end. Those who have
been most closely in contact with him,
either in politics or IN sport. display sur
prisingly unanimous disposition in pri-
vate talk to believe that the American case
must be even stronger than the cable dis
patches make it, but to the general press
and public he is merely a name, and they
espouse his side none the less vehemently
for not quite understanding what it is.
They are especially eloquent about the
bad manners of the excursion fleets, which,
they properly say, have never been riv-
aled over here, but this is only because the
idea of spending money to get on steamer
to watch yacht race has never COM
mended itself to the British mind. Within
his limits the Briton car be as evil-man-
nered as any living being. His royal
family cannot visit any English Watering
place or seaside resort, simply because its
ladies are followed about and almost
walked over by eager throngs of snobs
whenever they put their noses outside the
doors of their lodging places.
Perhaps there is certain consciousness
of this national defect mixed up in the
JUNCTION with which Englishmen are de-
claiming just now about Yankee rudeness.
There is this much of truth, however, in
what they say: British crowds would obey
a policeman Just IS meekly thirty miles
from shore as they do on land. 1t would
never occur to them till some weeks after
ward, if even then, that his jurisdiction
over the high seas was faulty.
Vienna has it that Russia and France
have definitely separated themselves from
England in the present phase of the Ar
menian business and that Lord Salisbury
is now alone in his posture of coercion
toward the Sultan. Vienna gets so many
things wrong that there is no assurance
that this is right, but all the same it &C
cords with what has been expected from
the start
If the separation is not an accomplished
fact it will none the less come. Lord Sails
bury is in the seclusion of his Normandy
home, and though, of course, he is in touch
with the wires, it is taken for granted that
he will come home in case matters take
serious turn.
simultaneously have come disquieting
rumors about breakdown of the negotia-
tions with Russia about the Pamir from
tier. Official reassurances are published
to-day, the kerne of which is the state
ment that the principle of the frontier it.
self was accepted by both governments
last March, and hence cannot now be in
dispute, but there is such an Unborn dis
trust here of Russian diplomacy that the
mere existence of treaty more or less
convinces nobody.
The transfer of Sir f. G. Lascelles to the
British embassy at Berlin and the moving
of N. R. O'Connor from Peking to take his
place in st. Petersburg are also popularity
read as storm signals. O'Connor holds no
such rank in the regular diplomatic corps
as would naturally entitle him to this
great post, and it is guessed therefore that
he is promoted because of his intimate
knowledge of the Turkish and Chinese
problems, which is of pressing Importance
Just now in British representative at the
Russian court, and it is felt that these
problems must be urgent indeed to out
weigh all the party and class claims with
which Lord Salisbury is beset at home.
These little premonitory tremblings in
the balance of the European concert are
enough to invest the parting utterances of
the German and Austrian Emperors, when
the latter quilted Stettin at the close of the
German maneuvers for Vienna, with ex-
ceptional Importance. In the public eye
they seemed indeed to parade their sworn
alliance to death with more fervor than
ever before, and the Berlin official papers
are not slow to draw attention to the fact
that Emperor Williams nomination of
Count Won Waldersee as field marshal,
coming at such moment, also arrests at
tention. With the exception of three or
four Kings and Princes he is the only man
in active service holding this rank, and
the assumption is that it is meant to desig-
| nate him for the chief military role in the
| next war. Somehow the mere act of selec-
ton of an actor for the part seems to bring
| that war nearer than it was
| Six editors of Social-Democratic papers
have been arrested in different parts of
Germany during the week, and two others
have fled from the country. German poll
ticians are discussing at great length the
probability of the Reiohstag being more
willing to pass fresh repressive measures
next winter than it was last, when it re.
| fused point blank, but the question seems