The San Francisco call., 1895-12-15
Concerted Revolution Is Now
Being Stirred Up All Over
Macedonia.
DISORDER AT CoNsTANTINoPLE.
Frederic Comments on the Guardships
and Says There Is No Concert
of the Powers.
copyright, 1895, by the New York Times

copyright, 1895, by the New York Times.I
LONDON, ENG, Dec 14.-For the
moment apprehensions of renewed dis
order in Constantinople take precedence
of all other notions about the Levantine
situation. There has been for the last
fortnight steady influx of Kurdian and
other unclassifed provincial ruffians into
the capital, until now it contains many
thousands of dangerous strangers. These
fellows are supposed to come up primarily
for the purpose of selling the booty gained
in remote lootings and bloody raids, but
they are also suspected of the intention of
trying their hand at the bazaars of Con-
stantinopIe if the occasion for riot occurs.
Yesterdays wild panic, which for hours
threw the whole city into CONSERVATION,
and yet had no better excuse than an
original street squabble between an
Armenian creditor and his debtor, shows
how easily an organized mob could
stampede the entire population and seize
control of the town.
To make things worse, if the disturb
ances now feared do come, the Sultan will
be able to saw that this is precisely what he
on bringing up those extra guardships.
DiplomatIsts at Constantinople seem to
have felt sure that Europe would regard
their eventual success in this guardship
matter as a triumph of the first magni-
tude. They have even told correspondents
that now that their prolonged exertions
over this affair had been crowned with
victory they and the Sultan both need a
rest, and probably there will be no new
developments in the Eastern question
till the Christmas holidays are past.
But Europe, so far from being impressed
by their achievements, laughs in harsh
derision and wants to know when the real
question, which is the wholesale massacre
of Christians over all sections of the
empire, is to be taken up. To that there
is no answer, nor is there likely to be one
OF satisfactory sort.
The spectacle of the English Dryad
and the Italian Archimedes steaming
abreast up to the Golden Horn
yesterday furnished, indeed, the foun-
cation for question of another
sort which will soon be asked in earnest.
This display of an understanding on one
side will be matched by the appearance on
side by side, if indeed, as speculation hints
tonight, they are not kept outside the
Dardanelles altogether as hint to the
Sultan that his true friends abstain from
taking a prejudicial advantage of his re-
Iuctant firmans. The Austrian boat came
in alone to-day, characteristically enough,
and there is no mention of a German boat
anywhere. Thus this very symbol of tri-
umph of the European concert is con-
yerted into demonstration of the fact
that there is no such thing as concert.
1t is believed here, and l gather, on the
Continent as WELL that unless an overt
turbulence in Constantinople precipitates
interference, Russia will gather her forces
during the winter and in the early spring
assume an initiative of her own. Six army
corps in Kfeff and Odessa are practically
mobillzed, and the large Black Sea feet at
Sebastopol with hre-enforcements of marines
from Cronstadt during the week is held
daily ready for sea. Some sixty Bull
garian officers have been within fortnight
attached to the line regiments in the Kieff
district, and many more are proceeding to
leave Sofia for the same purpose after the
New Year.
II is perfectly understood that in the
spring a concerted revolution will break
out all over Macedonia, the details of
which are being arranged publicly at
mass-meetings throughout Bulgaria.
These things can mean nothing save that
with the melting of the SHOWS Russia's
game will be ready in both Armenia and
the Balkans.
What is called the European concert
signifies merely anxious efforts OF the
other powers to preserve a semblance of
peace through the winter by agreeing on
as many non-essentials as possible and
trusting to chance for alliances and to
luck when the tug comes in March.
This nervous fencing for position and
DELAY so absorbs the British attention that
all other continental happenings are lg-
nored. At another time there would have
been much excitement over the assault
of bIackmailers upon President Faure
through the antecedents of his greatly re-
spected wife, but as it is, the incident gets
scant notice. 1t would appear that even
in France people are too preoccupled with
the eastern war cloud to pay the usual at
tentior to the affair, though 1T is under
stood that next Thursday.the reception at
tie Elysee will be made the occasion Tor a
great demonstration of personal regard 1or
the President and his family.
Similarly the catastrophe which has
overtaken the Italians in Abyssinia passes
with only the briefest comment, most OF
which is devoted to wondering how the
dispatching of the reinforcements, already
in hurried progress, will affect Itaiy's
ability to hold her own in European war.
The consent of Lord James to act as arol-
traitor in the shipbuilders' strike was re-
ceived SO generally as a sign that the whole
trouble had been disposed of that his COM
plete failure to settle anything has the
effect now of emphasizing the general de-
preston that the news created. There Is
disposition everywhere, of course, to curse
the nhstinacx of the Belfast men and as: