The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-07
Copyright, 1896, by the United Asso
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BERLIN, Sept. 6.-The conferences
which have taken place between the
czar and the emperor and their ac-
codnpanying Russian and German Dip
l0nats, which at first were alleged to
be devoid of anything more Important
than mere ceremonial converse lions,
are now reported to have taken the
character OF initiating a new concert
of powers, which is to have bearing
of utmost Importance upon the future
events in Turkey. 1t is not known
defiT nely who originated the proposal,
bur NJ is, however, a matter of posi-
tive knowledge in Berlin that Prince
Hohentohe, the imperial chancellor,
and Count Won Osten- Sacken, tine Rus
sian ambassador to Germany, are dis
cuSsing a plan, the purpose of which
is to place the sultan under the tute-
lage of ambassadors of the powers in
Constantin0ple, who will be empowered
to control the sultan selection of min
listers and also his appointment of pro-
vinciad governors. The settlement of
the troubles in Crete, upon the basis of
European supervision, appears 80 have
been the keynote of this scheme, which
at least would maintain the nominal in
uegrlsy of Turkey and for a time en-
able the powers to escape being
dragged into a European war over the
division of the spoils of
THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE.
Practically the foreign ambassadors
are already treating Turkey as a gov
eqnment existing wholly upon suffer
ance, but they do not take the respon-
sibiLiaies which ought to be associated
with the situation. Only tine bare pro-
posalS have been heard of outside of
the circle which is formulating the
scheme, but the plan is doubtless FUN
of difficulties in the way of its working
smoothly. One thing, however, is GER
tain, and that is that both the entour-
age of the kaiser and that of the car
are convinced that they can no longer
rest content upon mere diplomatic re-
nonStranceS to the porte, and it is
we'll understood that family influences
upon the car az Copenhagen and sim
liar influences upon the kaiser at Bal
moral, have become insistenG beyond
precedent in favor of an effective stop
page of the horrors in Turkey, and
these influences, it is believed may
have been the most potent of AID in
determining the two eTnperoTs upon
the course which it is now proposed to
pursue Diplomatic advices received
from Constantinople are such as TO
cause we'll grounded fears here that
very much worse things than have al
ready occurred in Cpnstantinople may
happen in that city before the ambas-
sailors are able to arrange for armed
intervention to suppress disorders; that
the sAtans palace clique, fearing that
the sultan's reign is about to cease,
MAY ORGANIZE A MASSACRE
upon a very much larger scale than
heretofore, and which will involve
many other persons than AlTnenians as
its victims
The reports that the British, French
and Italian warships in Turkish waters
have been reinforced, while the Ger
man warships have not, have excited
a. widespread feeling of discomfort
which is being freely expressed in the
newspapers, regardless of their DO
litical bias. Despite the activity of the
other powers in augmenting their naval