St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-24
G0BBLES THE TURK
REPORTED THAT TURKEY HAS AL
LIED HERSELF WITH THE
OTTOMAN EMPIRE,
FRANCE MAY ALSO BE IN 1T.
THE PAST HALF CENTURY.
IT TRUE.
SOME DOUBTS ARE EXPRESSED.
TeIegrams From Paris and Vienna
in Denial - Officials Profess
Ignorance.

in Denial - officials Profess
| Ignorance.
| LONDON, Jan. "a dispatch to the
! Pail Mall Gazette from ConstantinopIe.
| dated yesterday, says that an offensive
and defensive alliance has been con-
| cluded between Russia and Turkey.
| The Pail Mall Gazette correspondent
adds that the treaty was signed at
| Constantinople, and that the ratifica-
tions were exchanged at st. Petersburg
| between Aarej Pasha and the czar.
| The basis of the treaty is declared to
| be on the lines of the Unkiarskilli
agreement of 1893 by which Turkey
agreed, in the event of Russia going
to war, to close the Dardanelles to war
ships Of all nations This treaty was
soon abandoned owing to the refusal
of the powers to recognize 1t. The cor
respondent also says that the French
ambassador, N. Cambon, conferred
with the sultan yesterday, and that it
is probable France will be included in
the new alliance. Commenting upon
the foregoing dispatch the Gazette
says:
I'VE regard the news as true The re-
suit of the treaty is that the Darda-
nelleS is now the southern outpost of
Russia and that Turkey is Russia S
vassal. We presume the British gov
| ernment Will protest against the treaty
| for all it is worth. The information is
plainly Of the very greatest Importance.
The first intimation was four days ago,
but we withheld it until the arrival Of
strong confirmation, which we received
this morning. This brings Russia into
the Mediterranean with a vengeance
and may necessitate the strengthening
Of our fleet in those waters
Politically the effect will be great.
The treaty means that Turkey has real
lied her own impotence against disor-
ders both from within and without and
has decided to throw herself for safety
into the arms Of Russia. She is now
RUSSIA'S VASSAL
and Russia is entitled to dispatch troops
to any part of the sultan's dominions
whenever there is the slightest breach
Of order and when there is not. We
presume the arrangement will give the
keenest satisfaction to the Anglo-Amer-
lean section of our people. With them
lies the chief blame for the complete
alienation of Turkey, though it must
be owned that 1t has been sedulously
fostered for long term by the weak
policy at ConstantinopIe.'
Officials of the foreign office when
questioned on the subject this after
noon said they had no information re-
garding the statement.
& Officials of the Russian embassy here
deny having any knowledge of the ex-
istence of aRusso-T Turkish treaty on the
basis indicated. Attention is called to
the fact in we'll informed circles that
while the present time is inauspicious
for Russia to provide arguments in
favor of Great Britain joining the drie-
bund, it must be remembered that in
1878 Great Britain completed a similar
treaty with Turkey, when she secured
the island of Cyprus for Turkey. Such
treaty, between Russia and Turkey,
it is added might open the way to a
solution of the Armenian question, as
under it Russia could occupy Anatolia.
| LONDON, Jan. 23-Dispatches to the
Daily Telegraph from Vienna and
Paris deny the report printed in the
Pail Mall Gazette Of an offensive and
defensive alliance between Russia and
Turkey.
VIEWED BY SENATORS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.-The dis
patch giving details of the treaty re-
ported to have been perfected between
Russia and Turkey was circulated on
the floor of the senate today and was
read with expressions of general in
terest, especially by members of the
committee Of foreign relations. Sen
ator Davis expressed the sentiments of
the majority Of the committee when he
said: IF true, this is the greatest diplo-
matte event which has occurred in the
past fifty years. It means that Rus
sia can move her armies across the
Turkish border Such a treaty would
represent an immediate settlement of
the Armenian question, and if France
had also entered into the alliance, as
appears probable, the result would be
that the fleet of those two countries
would virtually control the Mediter-
ranean, and that means more than any
one can now foresee. 1t also means
that England will have something to
do besides bullying Uncle Sam
Senators Morgan, Lodge and Cullom
read the report with avidity and all
remarked upon the vast Importance of
the news if 1t proves to be true.
Mr.. Lodge said that coalition be-
tween Russia and Turkey, such as that
indicated, would mean that England
would have her hands full of business
On her own continent without interfer-
ing in American affairs.
The French ambassador was seen
but said he had no news on the sub
Ject and was apparently disinclined to
credit the Pail Mall Gazette statement
The dispatch was read with great
surprise by members of the house COM
mittee on foreign affairs. Mr.. Hit was
inclined to doubt the news. He said,
however, that If Russia had signed
such treaty she must have done so
with full knowledge of all the conse-
quences that must follow with the
treaty of Berlin, which rescinded the
Russo-Turkish treaty Of San Stephano
and was designed particularly to pre-
vent such an alliance as the Pail Mall
Gazette outlined and to preserve the
balance of power of Europe
For Russia, to trample on that treaty
must provoke the gravest imaginable
consequences. Mr.. Draper, of Massa-
chusetts said that in his recent trip
abroad the prevailing feeling against
Great Britain because of what the
other powers regarded as her land
grabbing policy was everywhere so
strongly manifested that such a coali-
tion would not be entirely a surprise.
LONDON, Jan.24-Special dispatches
from all points On the continent agree
that nothing is known there of the
alleged offensive and defensive treaty
between Russia and Turkey. which was
reported in a yCnnstantinople dispatch
to the Pail Mall Gazette. The report