The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-11
Must Choose Between Total ISo-
lation or an Aggressive
Coalition.
CONTINENTAL ALLIES NEEDED.
An Effort to Force the Salisbury
Government Into a Definite
Union.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Nov. 10-The decla-
rations of Lord Salisbury i'll his speech
upon the occasion of the banquet of the
Lord Mayor of London last night and the
official statement made by Nj. Berthelot,
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in
Paris, sum up everything of an official
character that is known here in regard TO
the Eastern situation. The reticence of
our Foreign Office remains nearly absolute,
| and no information conveying the slight
est idea of the general position is per-
mitted to leak out.
Since Austria, under the approval of
Germany, entered the European concert,
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, he is prepared to concede
anything that may be demanded of the
| Porte.
| Although Germany has Joined the Eu-
ropean league. she certainly has not COM
mltted herself to any project contemplate
ing European protectorate over Turkey
the occupation of Armeniarby Russia or
any other scheme which would involve in
reference at the present time with the
powers of the Sultan within his own do
mains, and the North German Gazette de-
clares that the Christian inhabitants of
Turkey in the meantime will be in no wise
endangered.
The correspondent of the Tageblatt in
Constantinople kilograms to his paper that
| he is in a position to affirm that no war
| 20 Mi ioat iLaIxy 20 - B.
the Armenian trouble, and behind this
soothing, semi-officiaI assertion remains a
ombination of unexplained facts suggest
ing that it is the intention of Germany to
play the part of the honest broker in the
matter.
The principal one of these facts is the
action of Count Goulochowski, the Aus
trian Secretary, of State for Foreign Al
fairs, in first making overtures to Lord
Salisbury calling attention to the fact that
1t would greatly strengthen the position of
England if the Triple Alliance should be
taken into the alliance of powers on the
| Turkish question, under conditions that
Austria would institute operations if re-
quired to protect the Macedonian popula-
ton, Austrla's geographical position ena-
| bling her to do so at a moments notice.
| hO docCHG vi tlle Premier CllS
virtual proposal was obtained under Lord
Salisburys conviction that England would
require strong backing against the coali-
ton of Russia and France when the time
should arrive for the partitioning of Tur-
key.
In view of all this, while peace reigns
for moment under cautious ministerial
utterances, nobody believes that the Turk
will be able TO weather the crisis which
confronts him very much longer 1t is
thought that paramount interest in the
present position to the highest official cir
Gle here lies in the hope that the policy
now being pursued will force England into
the Dreibund. England has always been
ready to seize advantages from the central
European coalition without committing
herself to anything, but the time has come
when she is confronted with the alterna.
tive of choice between fatal isolation and
definite union with the Continental powers
! A semi official paper in Hamburg the