The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-15
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= 10 intervention IN turkey
The Armenian Outrsges-Mad Policy of
the English Liberal CabInet-The Maria
berg Scandal.
BERLIN, June 10.-The news of the
Franco-Russian loan of $50, 900, 600 to
China has proved to be a disagreeable
surprise both to the government and
to the leaders in financial circles who
had been relying upon official action
to secure a large share of the Chinese
loan for Germany. Immediately upon
receipt of the news of the Russian
coup the members of a German syndi-
cate of which the royal z~ehanlund Is,
the head, communicated with the,
financial department of the govern
ment upon the prospects of Germany's-
securing the main indemnity loan.
which will amount to $3.50, 900, 900,
or 5000, 600, 900 and negotiations were
also resumed by the syndicate with
the London Rothschilds on the ques-
ton of the cooperation of English
bankers in the scheme. The syndi-
cate has received prompt ~ssura
that the government will intervene to
obtain for Germany a share in such
further financial arrangements as
China may require. AS the $50, 900, 900
now guaranteed by Russia covers only
the indemnity to Japan for the sur
render of the Lao Tung peninsula
German financial houses are conf
dent hat China must have recourse to
them to float the larger loan, which
Russia could not guarantee nor French
financiers supply without outside as
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the approval of the government will
therefore seek an entente with the
English financial houses in the matter
of the larger loan.
In the meantime the political impor-
tance of the Franco-Russian arrange
ment is keenly felt, and it is probable
that that loan will not be admitted
into the German and English markets
This, at least, is the feeling of the
syndicate, which includes in its mem
bership the Bleichroeders, the Ma
tional Bank of Germany, Behren &
Sons. of Hamburg; Won Der Heydt &
Co., the Dresden bank, the Schaaft-
hansen Bank Verein and other lead
ing financial institutions.
HOSTILE TO INTERVENTION IN TURKEY
Baron Won Saurma-Jedtsch, formerly
German ambassador at Washington.
and now representing the empire in
Constantinople, has lately been in Ber-
lin and received orders to enter upon
his new duties without delay.
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe is keep
ing in touch with the government at
Vienna in obedience to the emperor's
instructions, which point toward a
cautious but Independent policy, with
a tendency rather hostile to English
Intervention in Turkey. The chancel-.
Tor has been approached by Russia.
upon the subject of a conference Of
ambassadors in regard to the Turkish.
situation, but has not yet given any
reply.
The North German Gazette whose
articles IN the subject are in strong
contrast to those of most of the other.
papers which d%enounce the porte, con-
tinues a mild defense of the sultan.
Referring to the demands made upon
Turkey by the three powers, the lei
tung says the porte seems to be doing
all it can to abate or counterfeit the
religious hatreds which are disturbing
the Turkish empire; and the Christian
powers ought certainly to give the sui
tan credit for desiring peace within
his realm and not make demands with
which he is unable to comply. The
language of the Zeitung gives strength
to the report that the sultan is being
supported by German and Austrian in
~1uences.
DENOUNCEs THE MAD POLICY OF The.
ENGLISH LIBERAL CABINET.
The Pesther Lloyd, whose editor,
DR.. Max Falk, has a leading official
position upon the foreign committee
of the Hungarian delegation, de-
ounces the mad policy of the English
liberal cabinet in reversing the tradi-
tional friendship of England toward
Turkey to the advantage of Russia.
DR.. Falk is now in Vienna with the
Hungarian delegation, and has the
best possible chance of knowing the
views of the imperial government,
which his article undoubtedly ex-
presses. The Pesther Lloyd calls upon
Count G~oluchowski to explicitly and
emphatically declare his policy, in or
der to prevent an outbreak of war, by
announcing that the triple alliance,
desiring to keep the peace in the Bal
kan peninsula, will intervene to re-
the normal relations between
the porte and the powers.
The Vassische Zeitung expresses the
opinion that the situation was never
at any time so critical as it is now,
since the Russian armies were before
.onstant.nople.
THE ~MARIABERG sCANDAL-MAX CHAIR
EFT AL. ACQUITTED.
The Aschen court set all last week
in the trial of an action for libel
brought against a journalist named
Max Scharre and two others for de-
the characters of the monks OF
Mariaberg in accusing them of mai
lunatics confined in their in
stitutioD. The defendants succeeded
in proving that the accused monks
mostly illiterate workingmen
and that they had resorted to the old
methods of controlling their patients
by torture, combining them in chains,
them, and even exposing some
Of the inmates in a semi-nude state to
the heat of intense fires. The case
was closed on Saturday by the ac-