The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-12

BERLIN, Oct. Copyrighted, 1895,
by the Unftea Associated Presses.)-
The lull in the excitement over affairs
! in the east continues, the newspapers
having decided TO await the develop
nfents which are expected to follow the
departure of the car from France,
before resuming their campaign of agi-
tation. 1t is understood that the car
will shortly give an audience to Cen
eral Grumbkoff, the German officer in
the Ottoman service, who is the bearer
of an autograph letter from the sultan
to the kaiser. General Grumbkoff is
accompanied by the sultan's ambas-
sador, Ghalib Bey, who will also be
received by the kaiser. The mission
of General Grumbkoff, according to the
semi-official Berlin Post, is one OF
GREAT POLITICAL IMPORTANCE.
In the meantime, an interview with
| General Grumbl6off appears in a Ber-
| lin paper in which the Turkish COM
missioner vigorously defends the action
! of the sultan and the leading turkish
officials. contending that no man occu-
plying the Turkish throne would fulfill
! the demands of the powers uncondi-
tionally The sultan of Turkey, he
II aintains, must always take into con-
! sideration the probable effect Of the
! fulfillment of such demands upon the
Mahommedan populace; otherwise,
there would be great danger of Moslem
| fanaticdsm leading to annihilat1on of
! the Christians in the empire. Abdul
Hamid,'' the general says, lis a wise
man and in all his actions he invari-
ably looks carefully forward TO the
] 1ao hi hn
| tan could follow his own desires, Tur-
key would be a happy country, but
| his most excellent aspirations are fet-
| tered by empty public Golfers.
THE TRUE REFORM
which is needed in Turkey is financial
assistance, perhaps administered I'M
! der a control similar to the admins
! tration OF Egypt; but as there is no
money there can be no reform.
The pro-Armenian movement in
| Germany is making little progress.
Although the official wet blanket
which has been cast over the move
nent wherever it has existed has not
had the effect to quench the flame of
! agitation altogether. the movement it.
self has not been seized with any de-
! gree of ardor by the public. Doctor
! Pepsius, tine leader of the Armenian
!
! foreign Office and requested to desiSt
from further activity in the matter, he
| being informed, it is understood. that
as the movement was a. strongly politi-
cal one, and in no respect philanthro-
pic one, the government could not
! countenance it.
The Hamburg Nachriehten, the per-
sonal organ of Prince Bismarck, in its
| discussion of the Armenian question,
argues that the Armenians are rebels,
while Germany and Turkey have the
most friendly relations. Therefore the
! German aiders and abetrors of the Ar
/ menians are liable to punishment I'M
der the German criminal code.
The circumstance of ignoring the
entire diplomatic corps at Paris in the
matter of extending invitations to the
various functions upon the occasion of
THE CARS VISIT TO PARIS.
which caused feeling of intense indfg-
nation among the diplomats them
selves, is being much discussed in Off
cial quarters here. AT the outset of the
entertainment of the car, the diplo-
matte body only received invitations to
! the gala opera performance and were
! not asked to be present on the oc-
casion of the cars entry into the city
or attend the luncheon at the Russian
embassy, the religious ceremony at
| the Russian church, the banquet at the
/ Palace of the Elysee, the laying of The
| foundation stone of the bridge Alex
ander H. which was really the begin
ming of the preparations for the ex-
hibition to be held in Paris in 1900,
the visit Of the car TO Versailles. or
the performance at the Coincide Fran
caise. After all, or nearly all, of these
| functions were over, the diplomats re-
ceived invitations to attend the grand
military review at Chalons. and the
! attaches of the various embassies and
legations only obtained these in conse-
quence of the relnonstrance made by
/ Count Won Munster the German am
bassador, to the foreign office 1t is
possible that the officials of the foreign
office did not relish the quarter from
which the demand for invitations to
attend the great military spectacle of
the review of the French troops came,
for they promptly
DISCLAIMED ANY RESPONSIBLE
for the commission to send invitations
and referred the ambassador to the
Elysee palace, from which quarter
the invitations eventually emanated.
According to a special dispatch to
the Cologne Gazette from St Peters
| burg, President Faure will not pay a
visit to the Russian capital, as has
been suggested, but Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria will return the czar's
visit 10 Vienna and the emperor and
empress of Germany may also visit st.
petersburg concurrently with the Aus
TRAN kaiser, unless the expected
acouchment of the czarina should COM
pei postponement of the imperial
visits.
The German colonial council held g
meeting on Oct. 10. The programme of
| the meeting embraces discussion of the
! colonial budget and the questions of
slavery and slave-trading, the military
obligations of settlers in southwest
| Africa, the training of colonial officials
and the matter of penal procedure re-
! garding natives.
| In addition to discussion of these
questions. the recent events at Zanzi-
bar, including the matter of the re-
moval from Zanzibar of the usurping
Sultan Said Khalid by a German war
! ship, will doubtless receive the atten-
/ ton of the meeting. The more ex-
! IRENE members of the colonial coun-
! ell regard the removal of Said KbaIid
/ to Dares- Salam as an important score
/ in favor of Germany and against Great
Britain, and are chuckling at the furi-
Gus language of the English jingo press
| in regard to the incident. The ex-
tremists profess to regard the Said
khalid affair as being fraught with
most valuable results to Germany, and
| believe that something serious is i'm
ninent from the facts that the British
warShip st. George, the flagship of the
! Cape and West African station, which
sailed southwark from Zanzibar on
September a. has been ordered to re-
turn to Zanzibar and the cruiser Glib