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


thing which the world has known dur
! ing the past year as the concert of Eu-
rope In place of both, for they both
mean the same thing, there has been
created new and living potentiality,
which, while it will not undertake to
avenge the innocent blood already
shed, will surely strip the guilty of all
further power of outrage and mas
sacre.
The Turk is to be coerced. The sui
! tan is to be reduced in fact, if not
actually in name, to vassalage. His
fate will be made known to him, prob
ably, before the end of the present
week. Russia, France and Great Brit
ain have decreed it. Should he re-
| sst. or fail to bow at once TO the in
evitable, then the combined fleets of
those three powers will enforce their
behest.
THE WELCOME NEWS.
Such, in brief, is infinitely welcome
news which will bring relief and
sense of restored self-respect to the
whole Christian world. 1t is not Off
cially announced yet. 1t may even
be discredited in certain quarters. for
a few hours as premature. But 1T can
be affirmed. nevertheless
It was not until yesterday that the
full contamination was reached. Rus
STA, France and Great Britain arrived
at substantial agreement on plan of
action last week. There remained the
necessity of getting the consent of the
other three powers, which were sigma
tories of the Berlin convention Italy
and Germany agreed without demur.
Austria hesitated long, and it was not
until after Yesterdays emergency plan,
"a dor notified
Lord Salisbury of the rather unwilling
assent of his government that the Rus
SIAN French and British fleets shall
force the Dardanelles. if necessary, in
the execution of the new policy
NO EXACT DETAILS.
1t is impossible, at this moment, TO
furnish the exact details of the solu-
ton of the Turkish problem, which has
been agreed upon. 1t may, however,
be partially defined in a negative way.
1t provides nothing so radical as oil
vision of the Turkish empire. Such
project has not been for moment
considered. The integrity of Turkey
will be substantially maintained.
The terms of the new policy have
been dictated practically to Russia. It
came about finally that English and
other representatives brought home to
the cars government a realization of
the fact that the inaction, for which
it was partly responsible in the face
of accommodating horrors of the Turkish
rnisrule had become intolerable. Even
French influence has been for some
time strongly in favor of some form
of intervention Russia eventually
yielded in principle but the discus
sion of the ways and means has occu-
pied nearly three months.
SEVERAL VERSIONS.
There are two or three versions in
diplomatic circles of the policy at last
decided upon This is:
That Russia shall occupy the north
western corner formed by the BOs
phorus and the Black sea and extend
ing to a point about half way down
the Bosphorus. That Constantinople
and the Dardanelles shall be placed
under European protection, but shall
be under the rule of the sultan, the
forts at the Dardanelles being disman-
tied, and the passage becoming entirely
free. No further change is suggested
in regard to the integrity of the Turk
ish empire.
SULTAN'S APPOINTMENTS
This version includes, also, the
European supervision of some of the
Sultan's appointments, but believe
this assumption of virtual Russian
domination is somewhat too sweeping.
Some such plan as that is said TO have
been advocated by Nelidorff, the Rus
sian ambassador at ConstantinoDle,
who, since the death Of Lebanon, is
the ablest man in the service of the
car with regard to the eastern ques-
ton. Two things may be assumed re-
garding the modus vivendi, or what
ever the new agreement between the
powers may be termed. First, that sub
ment for all races in Turkey will be
provided; second. that Russia viii re-
tain her practical mastery of the stu
alton in the sultans domain.
The terms OF the agreement about
which l have positive information do
not seem to indicate an intention to
summon any new conference of the !
powers for the revision of the Berlin |
convention. Russia, France and Eng |
land have simply agreed to compel the |
sultan TO adopt radical reforms under |
a joint supervision of the powers, and !
they have asked and obtained the con
sent of the ether three powers to send |
ing the fleets of the new triumvirate |
through the straits, if necessary, to en-
force their demands.
ORDERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN.
Orders have already been given to the |
British, Russian and French squad |
rons in the Lex Levant to assemble at |
the entrance of the Dardanelles and /
to the Russian Black sea fleet to pre-
pare TO enter the BosDhorus in the I
event of the sultan's failure to yield /
in immediate obedience to their formal I
demands.
These demands are in the hands of
NJ Nelidoff. who left St Petersburg {
today for Constant inople. He viii con- .
suit with the French and British am
bassadors there on his arrival and
they viii make a joint representation
to the sultan with.the least possible de-
lay. What the response will be is a
matter Of pure conjecture.
WILL PROBABLY SUBMIT.
If Abdul Hamid is in a sane mood,
t is to be expected that he will sub
nit with the best possible grace posi-
Die. If not, then it may be the final