The San Francisco call., 1896-09-21
GERMANY'S EYES
upon THE SULTAN
Popular Sentiment Curbed
by the Governments
Policy.
AUSTRIA ALSO CHAFING
But No Decisive Step Can Be
Taken Without Russia'S
Approval.
ENGLAND's DYNAMITE SCARE.
Said TO Be Political Device to Operate
Upon the Ssnsibilities of
the Car.
ENGIAND's DYNAMITE SCARE.
Icopyrlsht,1sgs,D the United Associated Presse.l


BERLIN, GEEMANY, Sept. 2o.-Before
starting for his chateau at Alt-Aussee,
Styria. Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial
Chancellor, paid a visit to Count Won
Munster. Ledenburg, German Embassador
to France, who is spending his holidays
at his estate in Hanover. Count Won
Munster Will return to Paris on October
3, and it is needless to say that as the re-
suit OF the visit of Prince Hohenlohe he is
fully primed as to the attitude he is ex-
pected to observe throughout the sojourn
OF the Gar at the French capital, which,
is understood, is TO keep IN the back
ground and watch events. Prince Hohen-
lohe will remain in Styria tor fortnight,
but he has his plans for the conduct of in
ternational matters during his absence
from Berlin fully mapped out, and every
body concerned is fully instructed in his
line of procedure. Baron Marschall Won
Bieberstein, German Minister of Foreign
Affairs, is now in Baden, but his leave of
absence will end on October u.
In view of the absence of the chief Min
listers of the Government for the next
three weeks the Foreign Office certainly
cannot be very greatly concerned over an
immediate crisis in the East. What little
diplomatic activity exists now centers in
Vienna.
The Hon. Michael Herbert, First Secre-
tary to the British EN- bassy az CONSTANT
nople, who so efficiently acted as the SUBJ
stitute OF Sir Philip Currie. the British
En- baseador to Turkey during the recent
absence OF the latter in England, is on his
way to England on leave of absence. He
remained four DAYS in Vienna, leaving
there on Friday. While he was staying in
the Austrian capital Mr.. Herbert bad
three interviews with Count Goluchowski,
the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs,
who Is very plainly showing his desire to
make for himself a historic name as a
statesman by ia King the initiative in deal
ing with the Sultan. Only time can de-
eide whether he IS fussy intermeddler or
a far-sighted politician.
Mr.. Herbert. according to reliable ad-
vices which have been received here, ad-
vised Count Goluchowski TO disregard the
oft-repeaIed Turkish menaces of a general
massacre of Christians in Turkey. If the
powers collectively, or England alone,
should send fleet to Constantinople, Mr..
Herbert does not believe that the Sultan
possesses the power to effect general
slaughter OF Europeans in the Turkish
capital city, and he so expressed hims self
to Count Goluchowski. Mr.. Herbert has
also been permitted to repeat to the Aus
trial Foreign Minister his estimate, which
he sent to the British Foreign Office, of
the forces on land and at sea which would
be necessary to keep order at CONSTANT
nople in the event that the Sultan should
be deposed.
En- peror Francis Joseph of Austria pre-
sided over ministerial council in Vienna
on Friday. at which Count Goluchowski.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Ba-
denl, Prime Minister, Baron Banffy, Hun
garian Premier, and Baron Kallay de
Macy -Kalle, Chief OF the Imperial Finan-
clal Department, were present. This
council Is the last that will be held before
the Emperor starts on his programme, his
work beginning with the Galician military
maneuVers and the hungarian maneuvers
inaugurahng the iron gates of the Danube
canal and his visit to Bucharest. Since
the council was held the semi-official
press OF Vienna have continued their at
tacks upon Lord Salisbury without abate-
ment. The Berlin official circle seems TO
have got an inkling of the change in
the Austrian policy, which is less pro-
Russian than formerly. Probably a fac
tor influencing Count Goluchowski in de-
Gliding upon the change was the declar-
alton made by Baron Banfty at the coun-
Gil that the dissolution OF the Hungarian
Parliament had been fixed to take place
in October and that the new parliament
tary elections would be held in Eovem-
Der. These events. he said, must not be
accompanied by the reproach that Hun
gary had been made a tool of the Gar
been held in the various pop1lous centers
throughout Germany show a rapidly in
creasing concern in the massacres of
Christians in The Sultan's dominion. The
Catholic clergy have not as yet taken so
active a part in the agitation as the
Protestant clergy have, but the Catholic
laity are subscribing literally to the Ar
menian relief funds and the Centrist
newspapers urge the necessity of dealing
with the Sultan promptly, vigorously and
finally. DR.. Lieber, the leader IF the
Centrist party in the Reichstag, proposes
10 demand that the Government adopt an
unequiYocal policy in regard to the Turk
ish massacres of Christians Just as soon
as the Reichstag resumes its sittings in
Novem Der.
The Reichsbote, 8 Conservative organ.
pours out torrents of wrath at the alleged
German apathy in the matter OF the
Slaughtered Christians, but the question
Is whether OF. not Germany is apathetic
1t is true that the Government suppresses
any tendency on the part of the semi
official press toward public excitement
against the Porte, yet from every quarter
of the empire come signs that the great
political parties, the Conservative Gem
trist. National, Liberal and Freisnnige
are waking up and will make it impossi-
bic for the existence of Governmen ent
having no distinctive German policy in
regard to Turkey, merely saying s'ditio''
to the Russian or Austrian policy.
The English so-called dynamite plot is
suspected here, where police lodges are
possibly better known than in England
as being a trick upon the Car. The
National Zeitung in an article upon the
subject says: "The English newspapers
have made a tremendous commotion over
the affair, their articles being obviously
aimed at operating upon the sensibllities
Of the Gear.
The Vossische Zeitung, however, ex-
hol los . hat 10,
Fenian-anarchisr conspiracy, though the
paper is not aware how widely divergent
Fenianism and anarchism are.
The Vorwaerts, organ of the Socialists,
views the matter naturally as a police
plot, and assails Chief Inspector Melville
OF the Scotland Yard police as the foster
father OF the Berlin anarchists.
The Neuste Nachrichten and many
other newspapers express hope that at
last England will rouse herselfto energetic
action against the anarchist pestilence
which nurses at her bosom ana Join the