The San Francisco call., 1896-07-27
The Powers at Loggerheads With
Regard to Crete and
Macedonia.
HARD FIGHTING EVERY DAY.
Unspeakable Crimes Allowed to Go
Unpunished Through Inter-
national Jealousies.

ference with Prince Hohenlohe, the Ger
man Chancellor, at the latter's chateau at
Ait-Ausse, and reached Vienna on Thurs
day. On the day of his return to Vienna
Count Goluchowski had an interview with
Count Nigri, the italian ambassador to
Austria, and since then Count Nigri has
been summoned to Rome by the Marquis
Visconti-Venosta, the Italian Minister OF
Foreign Affairs. These comings and 60
lngs OF diplomatic chiefs cannot be at
trlbuted to any other cause than the
gravity OF the situation in the East. A
concert OF the powers has failed to per-
fectly result, as has already been stated,
and the events which are now taxing place
completely overwhelm diplomacy.
According to the telegraphic advices re-
ceived here yesterday, the rising of the
insurgents In Macedonia has become ex-
ceedingly formidable. Greece, while pre-
tending to take stringent measures against
any Greeks engaging in a raid on the
Macedonian frontier, has allowed upward
OF 500 men, all of them armed with Ebel
rifles, to enter Macedonia from Greek ter
ritory. These men, after surprising and
cutting to pieces the Turkish troops at
Moussa. succeeded in repulsing a strong
force of Turkish soldiers which had been
sent from Salonica to re-enforce the Moussa
troops.
A dispatch to the Vossiche Zeitung says
that the Redifs (reserves), who have been
called out under an trade from the Sultan,
are showing q disposition TO revolt in con-
sequence of the fact that their pay is very
much in arrears and the rations which
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quality and very small in quantity.
A special dispatch received by the Neue
Freie Presse from Salonica on Thursday
says that statements made by the Turkish
officials concerning the situation are all
calculated to conceal the desperate condi-
ton of affairs in Macedonia. Hard fight
ing is going on nearly every day at Drum
nits Seres and at nearly all points in the
mountains. The Turkish reserves at Priz-
rend Preshtima and elsewhere in that sec
ton are being equipped and sent to the
front as rapidly as possible, and it is es-
timated that the total numb Der of Turkish
troops concentrated on the Macedonian
and Bulgarian frontiers exceeds 1000 men.
Even this force, however, has not been
found sufficient to make any headway
against the insurrection, which, under the
influence of successes already achieved by
the insurgents in the field is becoming
stronger every day.
Stini iulated by these and similar reports,
semi-oficial newspaper organs like the
North German Gazette and the Cologne
Gazette, are taking more definite tone in
their articles commenting upon the gray
ity of the situation.
The North German Gazette reproduces
an article from the Cologne Gazette which
declares that unless the powers interfere
in an energetic way, instead of submitting
proposals to the Porte, the troubles in
Crete and Macedonia will never end.
The Reichsbote CONSERVATIVE publishes
letter written by aGerman lady living at
Monatstir wherein the writer narrates
atrocities which are practiccd there every
day without the slightest attempt at inter-
ference on the part of the authorities.
Among the horrors of which the lady
treats in her communication, she details
the fact of Turks assaultlng Macedonian
women and girls publicly in the streets,
before the eyes of their husbands and pa
rents. This letter has stirred up strong
feeling of public indignation here. more in
fact than the remoter massacres and out
RACES in Armenia.
The Reichsbote, in an article accompany
ing the letter, appeals to the powers to
cease their iealousies, and interfere in be-
half of the Macedonians and Cretans in
the interests of humanity.
The Bismarckian organs, on the ther
nand, are strongly opposed to any policy
OF interference on the part of Germany.
The Neuste Nachrichten declares that
the powers must maintain Turkish
rule in Crete and Macedonia, which the
insurgents are trying to shake off. If
they continue their efforts to throw off
the Turkish yoke, the paper adds, they
must suffer the consequences. Europe
cannot stake the peace OF the world on
their account.
After the meeting of the Emperor with
King Oscar of Sweden Norway on Thurs
day the imperial yacht Hohenzollern,
with the Kaiser on board. steamed up to
Maerk, at the head of Geiranger Fjord,
which is about the end of the Emperor 8
northern tour.
Advices from Molde Fjord say that the
Emperor had a week OF better weather
tean that which he experienced at the
beginning of his trip. The entertainments
on board the Hohenzollern have been ex-
cellent throughout the week. A choir of
sailors, comprising 100 men whose voices
were finely trained, were heard to advan-
tage at the Sunday services, and their
chorals were accompanied by the ships
band. Upon these occasions the Emperor
read a short discourse and two pray ers.
Berlin has hardly ever before witnessed
such scarcity of notable persons in the
city. DIR. MIGUEL, Minister of Finance; /;
Baron yon Hammerstein-Loxte Minister
OF Agriculture, Domains and Forests, and
Herr Nieberding, imperial Minister of
Justice, left the city for their holidays on
Thursday. Count Posadowsky -Wehner,
Minister of the Imperial Treasury,
started for the Tvrol on Thursday, and
Or. Bosse, Minister of Ecclesiast ical Al
fairs, instruction and Medicinal Affairs,
has gone to Carlsbad. The Foreign EN-