The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-01-11
WITH HENRY NORMAN.
The London Chronicles Washing ton
Correspondent and His Work

Correspondent and His Work
Famous Journalist Traveller Whose
Dispatches Have Made England
Pause.
Or. 6. Carpenter in Washington Starr
The intense interest Great Britain
shows in the Venezuelan question is
evinced by the presence in this city of
Mr.. Henry Norton, assistant editor of the
London Chronicle. Mr.. Norman realizes
better, perhaps, than any other English
newspaper man the relations of the Unit
ed States to England, and deprecates that
anything should disturb the friendliness
of the two countries. 1t is his dispatches
to the Chronicle that have for the first
time opened the eyes of the English peo-
pie to the cavity of the present situation.
and to the fact that the position of
America is not one of politics nor bum
conbe, but one Of earnest and honest
| patriotic belief in her rights and destiny.
| He says it makes no difference whether
the Monroe doctrine is founded upon in
ternational law or not, the American
people believed in it, and it would be
| foolish for England to do otherwise than
to acknowledge it and TO arrange her
affairs in accordance with it.
A JOURNALISTIC PEACE COMMITS
SION.
| Mr.. Norman comes here, in fact, as a
journalistic commissioner of peace, repre-
senting one of the greatest newspapers of
the world. There are few men SO well
fitted for such position. For the past
eight years he has devoted himself to the
study of politlos all over the world. His
books on Japan, China, Ccrea and other
countries of the far east are the best of
the later authorities on Asiatic matters
| today. There are few eminent Statesm en-
in Europe or Asia with whom he has not
| been in close personal touch at some
| time during the past few years, and he
| comes here direct form Constantinople.
| from whence he has been writing Eabout
L turkish affairs andathe situation oflthe
sultan as to the Armenians and as to
| the great powers Of Europe.
! Mr.. Norma n is a Harvard graduate,
of the class of 81, and he has in the
press, with Irwin in London and Sorib-
ner's in New York, book on the prob
lens Turkey and the Balkan Peninsu-
| lar
had a long chat " it'll Mr. Norman last
night at his rooms in the Arlington
| Hotel, and there renewed the acquain6.
/ ance which / had with him in Japan and
/ Corea about six years ago. He was then
I making a Journalistic tour of the far east
He had spent many months in Japan.
| had gone on horseback across Corea. had
| vi al tpd the fOrsti ice tiopa 81 P,,cri,
Siberia at Vladiyiostock, and was then
OH his way to China TO have an interview
| with Ii Hung Chang ana to meet Prince
Kung and other famous Chinese states
men. He came near being killed while
no was in Pekin in an attempt to 90
through the Thibetan Monastery there,
| and after number of remarkable expert
ences travelled southwark, and made a
thorough study of Farther India. He
spent some time in passing through the
French possessions in Turkey aud AMMAN
and then went to Siam. Here he re-
manned for a number of months, being
OF close terms with his majesty King
Chululangkorn From Siam he went
| south to Singapore. and explored some
parts of the islands Of Malaysia, which
have never been visited by any other
whiteiInan. He next spent some time
| in india and then went to Europe, got
married, and at once took wedding tour
to Egypt and the Soudan. After this be
returned to England. having been away
from home altogether for about five years.
HIS TOUR OF THE EAST.
I asked Mr.. Norman last night how
he happened to start his tour around the
world He repH ed: st was largely on
account of my health. I was acting as
one of the associate editors of the Pail
Mall Gazette with Mr.. Stead as editor
ln-chief. was not at all well, and when
proposed to make this trip Nj. Stead
fell in with it at once, and we organized
a com bination of newspapers, CONSISTING
OF thee Pail Mall Gazette@of London, the
journal des Debats of Paris and some
leading newspapers CT Canada and the
| United States, including The Star oil
Washington. I paid my own expenses
but had as partial Offset from this my
receipts from the newspapers. When ]
started L expected to be gone aborlt six
months. L found, however. that co1le
not do the world up. like Phineas Foga,
and my six months were gone before
left Canada ard the United States.
travelled in a sled throughout parts o.
Manitoba, visiting the farmers and study
ing questions there which were interest
ing to England, and spent some months
in the United States. )"
HOW THE SULTAN CAUSED TIL
ARMENIAN MASSAGE
The conversation here drifted to Asiati
matters, and then Nj. Norman's recen
! experiences in Constantinople, and
asked him as to tho position which thu
Sultan holds regarding the present out
RACES against the Armenians. He re
, piled: ~ believe that the Sultan ha
both instigated and permitted the mas
sacre OF the Armenians. He is disgustet
with the trouble that the Armenian
have caused him in connection with thei
complaints to the powers of Europe. III
is only pretending to do what the nation
of Christendon want but he is seoretl,
aiding and abetting The inassacres. %
"Are the massacres as. bad as thew hay
! been reported@"
"There is no doubt of it, replied Mr.
Norman. Il talked with persons who saw
the killing going on. The Armenian
were shot down by hundreds Thousand
wore killed, and tens Of thousands rem
dered homeless. Constantfnople is in n,
awful condition. 1t Ia full of bad char
aoters, and the Armenians there fear tbej
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