The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-05
TURKEY TO CONE OUT ON TOP.
THE EMPIRE NOT APT TO BE CUT
UP AT PRESENT.

Bavaria on the Point of Being
Broken Up by Wholesale Arrests.
Socialist Successes at the Polls.
| Copyright. 1896, by the United Associated
Presses.
| Berlin, Oct. 4-There is a growing dis
position here to regard the solution of
the Turkish question as being on the eve
of settlement by an amicable agreement
among the great powers, and it is taken
| for granted that all likelihood of the
partition of Turkey in the near future
has vanished
The semi-official press make much of
the supposed influence which Baron Saur-
ma Won Jeltsch, the German ambassador
to Turkey, exercises over the sultan,
which the papers ascribe to the Turkish
monarch's conviction that the represen-
tative of Germany at Constantnople is
not actuated by selfish aims. The papers
also connect with this presumed feeling
on the part of the sultan the reported
departure from Constantinople for Ber-
| lin of Gen. Grumkof, a German officer
in the Ottoman service, as the bearer of
an autograph letter from the sultan to
the kaiser 1t is stated that the COM
munication expresses the sultan's graft
tude at the attitude assumed by Germany
in the Turkish crisis, and ascribes the
troubles in Turkey to revolutionary agi-
tators The sultan also, according to re-
| port, assures the kaiser that the Chris
tians in Turkey will be absolutely safe
| guarded unless they indulge in anarchis-
tic excesses.
The Alt Deuschebiater prints an amaz-
ing story for the division of Turkey,
claiming the whole Of Asiatic Turkey for
Germany, adding that Germany may pos
sibly allow the sultan to remain ruler un
der German protectorate, assuming the
direction and administration only of az
fairs of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
The Loka AnZiger publishes an inter-
view with Baron Won Saurma-Jeltsch, the
| German ambassador to Turkey, anent the
| situation in that country. The ambassa-
dor says he does not think that the re-
| cent horrors will be soon renewed The
| Turks have been somewhat frightened by
| their own acts, and the decided attitude
of the powers has calmed the hot-heads.
Continuing, he declares that the de-
mands of the Armenlans are unjustiiia-
BILE and impracticable. They have great
| freedom in religion and trade, and are
. | very prosperous. lI6lI ullSCIuputOuS Hldll~
| ner of trading has stirred up much bad
blood between themselves and the Turks.
| They have no regard for anything or any
body. They have plundered Turkey for
| centuries, and are usurers and dishonest
dealers.
1.-The Turks were only wrong in their
manner of crushing the rebellion that is.
in not distinguishing the innocent from
| the guilty. In reality there was only one
revolutionst among thousand Arme-
mans. The leaders of the revolters were
mainly ambitious students who had inn
| bibed revolutionary ideas at Geneva.
among the victims who were killed in
| August, barely ten per cent. We're guilty.
| Turkey sees in what direction such mas
sacres leads. Constantinople is now on
the eve of a serious economic crisis"
Baron Won Saurma-Jeltsch concludes by
| declaring that he has strongly warned the
| sultan that such a state of affairs as he
sets forth in the interview, cannot contin-
ue and that he must be careful to strike
| only those who are guilty of plotting
| against him.
The successes of the socialists in the
| recent elections in the duchy of Saxe-Co-
burg and Gotha have greatly encouraged
| the party, who are now confident of Sc,
| curing a majority of the seats in the Gotha
diet The socialists have won nine out
of nineteen seats, and they are hopeful
| of obtaining an absolute majority in the
diet, through the elections which are yet
| TO be held in some of the districts OF the
duchy. The socialists now hold seats in
the landtags of other German states as
follows: Saxony, IA; Bavaria, 8; Sake
| Altenburg, 4; Wurtemberg Baden, Hesse
| and Reuss each, 3; Saxe-Weimar, Sake
Meiningen and Schwarzburg- -Rudolstat
! each l. The committee of the socialists
woman's propaganda have anticipated
the coming congress of the socialist party
! at Sieblchen, near Gotha, by holding q
series of five meetings in Berlin, conclud-
ing on Saturday with a grand fete in aid
of the propaganda fund.
| The notorious Bavarian Haberfeldtrei-
ben. a species of lynch law has had a
sudden and unexpected check. 1t will be
| remembered that il was an ancient Gus
TOM said to have dated back to Charlie
| magne, additionally set in motion after
| the close of the harvest season, with a
view of settling Old scores with obnox-
ious persons in the rural districts. In
| the old times it was a rough sort of JUS
| tice and served its purpose. OF late years,
| especially since the spread of socialism
| among the rustic population Of Upper
| Bavaria, It has degenerated into a riotous
| and "moonlighting' custom, by which
people were shot cattle manned and prop
erty burned. During a quarrel a few
| nights ago former victim of the Haber-
feldtreiben denounced the burgomaster Of
| Saurlach as "habermeister." The bur-
! gOmaStef promptly arrested the man Tor
having insulted him in his official ca
pacity, and the efforts Of his friends to
| obtain his release have been unsuccessful,
the burgomaster having refused the sum
Of $1,000 marks (S20.O0O) bail for his liberia
| tlon.
Since that time 275 men, land owner
| farmers, laborers and others have been
arrested under the charge OF belonging
| to the Haberfeldtreiben. The excitement
in the localities mentioned is intense in
| consequence of the unexpected action of
the authorities The crops, which before
now ought to have been gathered, are
rotting in the fields owing to the absence
| of the owners. overseers and laborers, be-
| longing TO the farms who are confined
in prison. This state OF affairs means
serious loss and probably total ruin to
| hundreds OF farmers and others. The
Bavaran officials have for a long time
sought to apprehend this particular class
Of offenders but up to this time have not
met with any success.
In the latter part OF October, 1895. a
mob OF 300 OF the guild "Haberers." as
they call themselves, all OF them with
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