Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-09-07
SUuTAN'S REIGN
About to Be Terminated by
Action of the Powers.
Concerted Move to Put an End to His
Outrageous Career.
Gar and Kaiser. Urged on by Royal Connect
ions. the Prime Movers.

Berlin. Sept. 6.-The conferences which
have taken place between the Gar and
Emperor and their accompanying Rus
sian and German diplomats which at
first were alleged to be devoid of any
thing more important than mere cere-
monal conversations. are now reported
10 have taken the character of initiating
a new concert of the powers. which is to
have a bearing of the utmost Importance
upon future events in Turkey.
1t is not known definitely who origi-
mated the proposal, but ii is a matter of
positive knowledge in Berlin that Prince
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, and
Count Won Osten Sacken. Russian am
bassador to Germany, are discussing Il
plan. the purpose of which is to place
the Sultan under the tutelage of the am
bassadors of the Powers in Constanti-
nople, who will he empowered to control
the Sultans selection of ministers and
his appointments of provincial governors.
The settlement of the troubles in Crete
upon the basis of European supervision
appears TO have been the keynote of this
scheme, which at least would maintain
the nominal integrity of Turkey and for
a time enable the Powers to escape being
dragged into European war over the
division of the spoils of the Ottoman en-
pire.
Practically the foreign ambassadors are
already treating Turkey government
existing wholly upon sufferance. but they
do not take the responsibility which
ought to be associated with the situation.
only bare proposals have been heard of
outside of the circle which is formulating
the scheme. but the plan is doubtless full
of difficulties in the way of its working
smoothly.
one thing is certain, and that is that
both the encourage of the Kaiser and
that of the Car are convinced that they
can no longer rest content upon mere
diplomatic remonstrance TO the Porte,
and it is well understood that family in
nuences upon the Gar at Copenhagen.
and similar influences upon the Kaiser
at Balmoral have become insistent be-
yond precedent in favor of an effective
StoppaSe of the horrors in Turkey. These
influences, it is believed. may have been
the most potent of all in determining the
two emperors upon the course it is now
proposed to pursue
Diplomatic advices from Constanti-
nope are such as TO cause well-grounded
fears here that very much worse things
than have already occurred in Constan-
tinople may happen in that city before
the ambassadors are able to arrange for
an armed intervention to suppress the
disorders; that the Sultan's palace
clique, learning that the Sultans reign is
about to cease may organize a massacre
upon very much larger scale than here
tofore, which will involve many other
persons than Armenians as victims.
hgporis that the ,rrl British, French and
been reinforced. while the German war
ships have not, have excited a wide
spread feeling of discomfort which is be-
ing freely expressed in the newspapers
regardless of their political bias Despite
the activity of the other Powers in aug
menting their naval strength in Turkish
waters. the admiralty of Germany has up
to this time taken no steps to increase
the strength and number of German war
vessels there, but now, apparently goaded
by the utterances of the press into doing
something. they have ordered the train
ing ship Gneiseau to Smyrna. and the
gunboat ErsatZ to replace the old and
wornout Loreley on the Constantinople
station.
These measures are extremely poor, in
deed and little better than none at all. If
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