The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-27
so ENGLISH PAPERS REGARD
GLADsTONEs PLAN TO SCARE
THE SULTAN.
ALL EYES ON BALMoRAL.
SALISBURY AND THE CAR Ex-
PECTED TO COME TO AN
AGREEMENT.
BRITA1N's ATTITUDE TO TuRKE,
Premier VIII EndeavOr to Convince
the Russian Ruler That lit la
Disinterested.

LONDON, Sept. 26.-The wearisone
Armenian question has almost alb
sorbed public attention during the
week. The proposal Of Mr. Gladstone
to withdraw the British ambassador
from Constantinople and give the
Turkish ambassador here his congo is
discussed by all the weekly news
papers, but it finds little favor and
is looked upon as being simDIy a pol
icy OF crying boo" which will nave
absolutely no good effect upon the sui
tan.
All eyes are now turned toward Bal
moral, where the arrival today of the
marquis of Salisbury will, 1t Is hoped
mark a turn in Great Britain's posi-
ton toward the powers. The British
premier will stay several days at Bal
moral and there is little doubt that he
will utilize his time in endeavoring to
win from the car recognition of the
disinterested character of Great Bril-
tain's policy towards Turkey, ard ar
range a basis Of joint action which will
render further massacre impossible.
On the continent Mr. Gladstone's
speech was received differently in the
various countries. The French press
has expressed unusually favorable
opinions of 1t, and even the notorious
Anglophobe organs give 1t generous
praise. The Libre Parole describes it
as the finest Mr. Gladstone has ever
made and one which ''stigmatized most
magniflcently the crime of European
diplomacy Of the past year"
In fact, the comments of the press
generally indicate that France has at
last awakened to the enornfties OF
Turkish mtsrule, and that she will
welcome an understanding between
Russia and Great Britain, which will
enable them to take joint and effective
action at Constantinople. In Austria
and Germany, however the newspapers
scOff at Mr. GladStOneS proposal re-
garding the ambassadors, which is
characterized as fantastic and frivo-
lous.
The announcement that Sir Herbert
Kitchener, the leader Of the Soudan
expedition is to be promoted to the
rank Of major-general has given great
satisfaction in view of the admirable
manner in which the expedition was
organized and conducted.
There was a remarkable scene at the
Adelphi theater during performance
of Boys Together" when the news
Of the fall Of Dongola became known
the whole audience rose and cfeered
for Sir Herbert Kitchener as Terry
delivered the lines referring to the
late Gen. Gordon and predicting that
his work would have to be done over
again:
The Times has written letter to
the Associated Press pointing out that
a paragraph purporting to be an extract
from the Times and commencing If
a single gold standard can be forced
upon South America and Asia" etc,
which was published in several news
papers in America on Sept. 5. never
appeared in the Times.
John G. McDona, member of parlia-
ment for the Rotherhithe division Of
Southwark, author of Across the At
lantic." Life In Texas" Days in
Florida ETC., and whose derelicts re-
port bill was adopted last session,
writes to the newspapers today, point
ing out that an immense deredict
steamer of 1000 tons was passed float
ing keel upward on Aug. 81 In Lat 40 n
ard Long. so w at the same time that
news was received here of the alleged
interocean race between the American
liner st. Louis and the Cunard liner
Lucania- He says:
Il Can any one doubt that If either of
these flying monsters ploughing the
ocean at the rate of eighteen to twenty
miles an hour, ran into this derelict it
might have been shattered to pieces
in the twinkling of an eye and sunk with
hundreds of souls? Is 1t not q crime
for the government to neglect taking
proper precautions to avoid the pos
sibility of such catastrophe?'
Mr. McDona adds that he intends to
introduce q bill next session to enable
the board of trade or the admiralty to
build or charter ships especially adapt
ed to search for and destroy or salvage
such derelicts He concludes with a
high tribute to the work OF the United
o. Ill
declares that the lethargy Of the
British government is a national crime
The Sportsman learns that 1t has
been arranged for Bacon and Comet
at their next meeting after the Dublin
event to run a mile at Bolton A third
race at Glasgow probably, will be q
two-mile contest.