The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-03
SALISBURY SHREWD AND SLY.
ALLEGED PLOT TO ELIMINATE
ITALY FROM THE DREmUND.

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Triple Alliance VIII BE AcceIa-
rated - Hostility Between Great
britain and Germany Increases.
England Accused of Treachery.
Mendacity and All Manner of Hum
buEgery by Influential German
Sewsp6PeTs-sfC+ss Sf the Social
lists and other News by Special
Cable.
Berlin, Feb. 2-The relations between
the governments of Germany and Great
Britain have not shown any signs of i'm
provement within the last few days, and
particularly since it became known that
the diplomatic efforts of the latter have
been directed toward involving Italy in
the arrangement between Russia and Tur-
key, Independent of her present allies.
The treaty binding the triple alliance
Austria, Germany and Italy-will fall re-
newable in 1897. Hitherto, Germany ana
Austria have had no reason to suppose
that there would be any change in the
relations of the contracting governments
which would cause Italy to desire to alter
the terms of the dreibund pact; but within
the last two weeks Signor Crispi prime
minister of Italy, is reported TO have sent
| instructions TO the Italian ambassadors
| at Vienna and Berlin to sound the re.
| spective governments to which those dip
lomats are accredited as to their views
| in regard TO important notifications of
the responsibilities of Italy under the con-
ditions of the present treaty, and as the
result Of Crispis correspondence with his
representatives at foreign courts, Count
/ Nigra, italian ambassador to Austria, an
ardent supporter of the triple alliance.
has gone TO Rome to influence the main
tenance of the dreibund.
In official circles here no alarm is felt
| that Italys entire withdrawal from the
/ terms of the treaty upon its expiration
l VIII be sought and accomplished Il be-
| ing held that as long as Crispi is in power
| tnat would be improbable, If not impos-
slDle. Inc emDarrasSmentS of the Italian
/ government through its expenditures of
| men and money in Abyssinia are rec
/ ognlzed as supplying fair reason for
! Ihe DeIet that there may be some reason
/ Tor a few minor changes in the treaty
| Dut the vienna government seems to have
taken an alarm, especially since the in
| many have assumed a tendency to cut
| off Italy from the triple alliance
As an immediate result, the new diplo-
matte negotiations with a view to the
| determination of a new treaty are to be
! accelerated. That the Berlin government
| Will not await movements Of the British
| government TO ascertain how the drei-
! bund stands, goes without saying. The
! passionate language INDUCED in by the
| seml-othcial German press in referring to
| Lord Salisbury's policy in Armenia has
| behind II more than official inspiration
| dare denote. Not only does the dVerg-
| ence of policy between the German and
| English governments increase. but the
hostility of their respective policies in
! creases also.
The British blue book on the situation
| in Armenia, which has just been issued,
| has in the meantime become a surface
motive for German attack upon Eng
/ land. The North German Gazette finds in
| this official publication reason easily
/ arrived at that the British government
| delayed publicity of the report contained
in the book, not because England did
/ not desire to further arouse the public
/ against the Turks, but because the cur
| rent stories of the massacres in Armenia
We're found upon investigation to have
| been greatly minimized. The conflicts be-
! tween the Armenians and Turks or Kurds
| at Sassoun have been shown to have had
| their origin in the deviltry of Armenian
| agitators who Matched plots involving vio-
| lence in order to obtain the sympathy
Of the credulous Christian world.
| The Cologne Gazette, In an article upon
| this subject congratulates Germany and
| the other continental powers upon hav-
| ing escaped following the British lines,
| involving the possible breaking up of the
| Turkish empire, and the National Eel
| tung, the Hamburger Nachrichten and
| most of the other influential German
! defeat of Lord Salisbury, and in denounc-
| ing British hypocrisy and mendacity in
connection with a1alrS IN the east.
The critical condition of foreign affairs
| has altered the plans which the emperor
| had made for his spring outing Accord
ing TO his present programme. he has
abandoned his notion of going to the
Mediterranean on yachting trip, and
the empress has also given up her sojourn
at AbasZai. The kaiser on Thursday had
a long conference at the foreign office
with Baron Marschal Won Berberstein,
minister of foreign affairs and had a pro-
| longed interview on Friday with NJ. De
| Zegyeny-Marich, the Austrian ambassa-
Having been successful in getting rid
| of DIR. Stoecker formerly the court chap
| lain, through his enforced resignation on
account of his refusal to declare himself
against the doctrines of the Christian so.
cialists, the conservatives of thinking of
throwing overheard Herr Won Ploetz, who
is the president of the Agrarian league
The Boersen Courier, in an article on this
subject says it has been only through the
Intervention of Baron Won Manteuffel
that Herr Won Ploetz has been thus far
saved, his excess of zeal in behalf of
purely agrarian interests having embar-
rassed the leaders of the conservative
party in their plans for reconciliation
The Munich Allgemeine Zeitung accu,
rately gives expression to conservative
sentiment in proclaiming the necessity for
the return of the party to its old tradi-
tons and the cessation of it's opposition
to the government rather than to pursue
the aim of union of all the parties of
order against the common foe, socialism
According TO the Berlin Post, the
form of the military laws, which has been
promised will not be brought before the
Reichstag this session. The time of that
body will be absorbed by consideration of
the civil code. An active agitation is pro-
ceeding among the German women with
the object of obtaining the redress of
grievances which the present code ignores,
and it is the intention of the leaders Of
the movement to petition the Reichstag for
the Introduction of clauses into the code
which will concede to married women
power to dispose of their own property
without requiring the consent Of their
husbands.
1t is also sought on behalf of married
women that they may absolutely con-
troll their own estate and use the earnings
thereof as they may see fit AS the law
stands at present the women of Germany
are distinctly inferior in position to the
males. 1t is not believed that the Reich
stag win grant the demands of the petit
tion as the advocates of women's rights
are chiefly found in the ranks of the So
cialists.
The fetes which took place on the occa-
sion of the thirty-seventh birthday of the
kaiser, on Jan. q, gave the old Berlin
aldermen an opportunity 10 relate how
the emperor's father, Kaiser Frederick
III, when ne was crown prince, invited a
deputation of the aldermanic body then in
office, to come to the palace and see his