The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-28
OUR BERLIN CABLE.
GLADsToNE,s SPEECH Is WIDELY
DISCUSSED.
Expulsion from Berlin of the Ar
menian Lecturer-An Operation
Successful, But the Patient Dies.

BERLIN. Sept 27-(Copyrighted, 1895
by the United Associated Presses. 1.-THE
anti-Turkish speech delivered by Mr.
] Gladstone at last Thursdays mass meet
ing in Liverpool, has been widely pub
llshed here, and generally commented or
by the newspapers a majority of which
! speak of the address unfavorably.
The Vossische Zeitung, the most indul-
gent of any of the leading journals in its
criticisms, goes no further than to ex-
I pres the hope that the words of the for
/ mer prime minister of Great Britain will
! have a SOLDERING effect on the sultan and
the palace clique behind him.
AT the same time. the Vossische zeitung
suggests the possibility that the
ALMOST VIOLENT LANGUAGE
employed by Mr.. Gladstone may reawak-
en- the fanaticisms of the Moslems and
! the Armenian reyolutionists and their FL
lowers, leading to the very results which
he SO. strongly denounces. Among the
otner leaolng German papers, the concen-
SuS OF opinion is that the speech is more
likely to encourage renewal of the slas-
Sacres in the Sultan's domain.
The North German Gazette, in an ar
tcie N criticism OF the speech, says:
1T must be painful TO many English
men 70 find that Mr.. Gladstone does not
know OF any other remedy for the Turk
lsh excuses than to threaten the sultan,
While at the same time confessing that
/ the threats could not be followed by ac-
tom
The National Zeitung and some of the
other journals accuse Mr.. Gladstone with
treating a serious situation with levity.
Ihe practical expulsion from Berlin a
few days ago of Prof. Thoumayan, the
Armenian lecturer, who came to Ger
many for the purpose of organizing
ANTT-TURKIsH MEETINGS,
has had a tendency to dampen the pur-
pose of the sympathizers with the Arme-
mans
In the official mind. Prof. Thoumayan
is mere agitator, who, politically, is in
distinguishable from the widest colored
and most fanatical huntchalist, or Ar
menian revolutionist. According to the
semi official version of the incident pub
ished in the Cologne Gazette Prof. Thou
mayan owes his life to the German am
bassador to Turkey, who interceded in
his behalf when the professor was SEN
fenced to death as a conspirator in Ar
menia, and procured reprieve on the
strength of Thoumayan's undertaking to
abandon his anti-Turkish agitation. New
ertheless, despite the fact that he received
repeated warnings from the Berlin po-
lice, Thoumayan continued his
ATTACKS UPON THE SULTAN
and his browning offense was committed
in MS declaration at a recent anarchist
meeting that the porte itself had ar
ranged the affair OF taking possession of
the Ottoman bank. In recounting the de-
tails of this incident, however, the Ga
zette omits mention of the fact that Prof.
Thoumayan went to the meeting men
toned in company with d well known and
highly-respected Berlin clergyman, for
the main purpose of refuting the state
ment which had been made in anarchist
oratories that the Armenian movement
a y fcfT<
DIR. Lindauer, the anarchist leader, hay
ing repeated this declaration Prof. Thou
magyar denied the truth of the allegation
with much warmth. He repudiated all
connection with the revolutionary mani
festo which had eninated from London,
and having disposed of this matter pro-
ceeded to denounce the sultan and the
higher officials of the Turkish govern
ment- The meeting was somewhat dis
turbed by the professors expression of
his sentiments and several speakers who
followed him declared that he was paid
agent of the Russian secret police.
Prof. Thoumayan has not yet been ac-
tually expelled, though he is constructive
ly under that ban, he having been in
formed that the
THREAT OF HIS EXPULSION
from Germany viii be Immediately exc
cuted If he makes another attempt to
address a public meeting.
The death of Frau Katahrina Klafsky-
Lohse, the prina donna, which occurred
in Hamburg last Tuesday, is greatly re-
GREETED here, and the circumstances at
tending her demise are being widely dis
cuSsed. Her friends are highly indignant
at the medical treatment which she re-
ceived and declare that she was the VIC
tim of the incapacity of the Hamburg
physicians who attended her. The story
of the cause of her death has many YER
sions. but the one most generally ac-
ceDted is that while she was singing A.
the United States she was struck on the
head by topping cupboard, which
caused a painful Inflammation of the
scalp. She never fully recovered from
the effects of the mishap, and later the
pain became almost unbearable. The
pronounced her afflicted with tumor of
the brain, which could only be relieved by
the operation of trepannng, which the
doctors decided to resort to. The opera
ton was performed with the result that
it disproved the tumor theory, but
KILLED THE PATIENT.
The fact was that her ailment was real
ly of a comparatively trifiing nature.
Frau Klafskys funeral, which took place
at Hamburg on Friday, was attended by
private friends. The body, in accordance
with the wishes of the deceased lady,
was clothed in the white robe of peni-
tence worn by her when in the character
of Elizabeth in "TannhauSer." The cho-
rus of Mozart's Magic Flute" was sung
at the grave. Madam Klafslsy was the
daughter of an obscure Hungarian shoe
man in Leipsic before she became promi-
nent as a singer. After her marriage she
abandoned her profession, but her hus-
bands failure in business compelled her