The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-23
ON CUBA
The Reasons Which PROMPTED the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee to Favor Recog-
niZing Her independence.

justify the step upon which he and his
colleagues in the government had de-
| cided. of recognizing the belliserency
of the, power or community which he
ocially called the Southern Confed-
eracy of America. and which at that
time had not a ship at sea or an army
! on land, and which had given as yet no
official evidence of war to the British
| government. simultaneously the same
action was adopted by the government
of France, which 'concurred entirely
in the views of her majesty's govern
| ment, and whose concurrence in the
| absence of protest or objection by any
other power made Russell's view the
accepted practice of Europe
"Canning's recognition of Greek bel
| ligerency in 1925. as well as the joint
| recognition Of the Southern Confed-
! eracy of America in 1861, was only the
first step toward an anticipated sys-
| TEN of intervention. Then France
Joined with England and Russia, and
| the three powers on July 6, 1927. united
| in a formal treaty. signed in London,
! which committed them to armed in
| tervention in case the sultan shouid
| still reject their proffered mediation
within the space of one month.
TRIPLE INTERVENTION.
The preamble to this treaty set forth
ereigns 10 intervene: "Penetrated with
| the necessity of putting an end to the
| sanguinary contest which, by delivering
| up the Greek provinces ard the isles OF
| the Archipelago TO all the disorders or
| anarchy, produce daily fresh impede
| ments to the commerce of the Eu-
| ropean states and give occasion to
| piracy, which not only expose the sub
| jccts of the high contracting parties
l Il. ~. l,,,t t.l.
| der necessary burdensome measures OF
protection and repression; Fl. NJ. the
king of the United Kingdom of Great
| Britain and Ireland, and II. NJ. the
| king of France ana Navarro, having
| beside received on the part of the
Greeks Il pressing request To interpose
| their mediation with all the Ottoman
| Porte. and being as well as his majesty
| tthe emperor of the Russias animated
| by the desire of stopping the efiusion OF
| blood, and of arreSting the evils OF all
| kinds which might arise from the con-
| tinuatOn of such Il state of things
/ have resolved to unite their efforts and
| to regulate the operation thereof by Il
| formal treaty with II view OF re-estab-
| fishing peace between the contending
parties by means of an arrangement
| which is called for as much by human
| ity as by interest of the repose of Eu
! rope.
The treaty proceeded to bind the
] three parties to offer their mediation
| immediately on the basis of the Turkish
suZerainty and Greek self-government,
and in case Turkey should not accept
within one month the proposed meda-
tion, the powers should prevent further
hostilities by ordering their squadrons
| to interDose.
The Turkish government, August
30, reiterated it's decided, unconditional,
final and Interchangeable refusal to re-
ceive any proposition on behalf of the
| Greeks. The next day the ambassadors
! sent the necessary orders to their
| squadrons, and in attempting to carry
out these orders the admirals, much to
the regret of the British government,
brought ON the battle of Navarino, Oc-
! tOber 20, 1877
THE RECOGNITION OF BELGIUM.
| The report next takes up the Belgian
| revolution Of 1880. it saws:
when the French revolution of July.
1896. occurred. it spread instantly to
the Netherlands. Toward the end of
August 1880. disturbances began, and
soon became so serious as to threaten
| grave complications abroad as well as
| at home. Without cOncernin. with or
! 'NiiS w lIIillI, ltlt powers
| imposed an immediate armistice on both
| parties. Naturally the Belgian rebels
| then declared themselves Independent.
| win such encouragement, their safety
| was guaranteed almost beyond the Dos
sibility Of risk
The claim Of independence was made
| NOV. Is, 1880 and was recognized one
month later by the powers in their sew
ehth conference, Dec. 20. The repre-
sentatlVes OF the five powers. whose
| names are among the most famous i'm
| diplomacy-Talleyrand. Lievan. Ester
hazey, Palmerston, Bulow-adopted,
| without the adhesion or even an inyi-
| tatlon TO be present of the Neither
| lahuS ministry, protocol which an
nounced intervention pure and simple;
beginning with the abrupt recognition
| OF the revolutionary government: THE
plenipotentiaries of the five courts of
the Belgium government to the arms-
| tice proposed to it. and which the king
of the Netherlands has also accepted
the conference will occupy itself in dis
cussiohs concerning the new arrange
| mentS most proper to combine the fu-
ture Independence of Belgium with the
interests and the security OF the other
| powers and the preservation of the
European equilibrium"
The Netherlands minister Immediate
| - iN'oi''u' D''' IL formal protest,
| ana reservation of King Williams
right to decide on such ul:erior meas
ures as should be taken in the double
interests of his own dignity and the
well being of his faithful subjects.
The report then tells of the protest of
Holland. followed by Holland mill
tary expedition which was met by 40
600 French troops The report con-
tinues:
in
| rebellion had broken out, and without
waiting for evidence of the right or the
military force OF the insurrection, ev-
| cry sort of intervention took place,
diplomatic and military. Joint and
separate. Nor did the intervention
stop with the measures taken for the
succor of Belgium.
"As King William. of Holland. con-
! tinued to reject the conditions imposed
by the powers and held Antwerp as a
| pledge for more favorable conditions of
peace, the governments of France and
England abandoning the European
concert. announced that they should
| put their naval and military forces in
motion. and accordingly the British
government November. 1882, embar-
COED the Dutch ships and blockaded the
! Dutch coast. while the French army,
| Nov. IA, formally laid siege to Ant
werp."
The report says that the Polish re-
bellion of 1881 seemed to have no value
as precedent except as far as it Of
fered an example of the power of Rus
sia. as the Belgian insurrection had
shown in the power of England and
France when in union. 1t continues:
TIE QUESTION OF HUNGARY.
''The next European people who
claimed recognition as an independent
family of the nations seems to have
been the Hungarians. On the 18th of
April, lS49. the Hungarian diet formal
ly declared Hungary an independent
state and the Hapsburg dynasty for
ever depOsed from the throne. The
next day the diet elected Louis Kossuth
| provincial president.