The herald., 1896-08-30
IN THE QUEENS DOM|N|ONS
A Lively Week in Political
CirCeIS
CONSTANTINOPLE RIOTING
Is Believed to Be 1nstigated by Turkish
Agents
In Spite Of the lingo Pressure Zanzibar VIII
Not Be Converted Into a Brit
ish Colony
Associated Press Special Mire

l<OA>Do-N, aug. -J.--tNSODy11Rn1. 1880.
Politically the past week has been the
liveliest for long time, the lombard
ment of the palace of the sultan of Zan-
zibar, the riotng in and about Constan-
tinople, the settlement of the troubles
in Rhodesia, the beginning of the cars
tour of Europe and the advance of the
British expedition up the Nile having
provided columns of interesting news
daily.
The Zanzibar incident and the Con-
stantnople massacres came like n couple
of tornadoes. The British press is unan-
imous in the opinion that the attack on
the Ottoman bank has done immeasur-
able harm to the Armenian cause, and
news of fresh massacres of Armenans
In the provinces as reprisals is hourly
expected The Liberal newspapers, how
ever, express the gravest doubts at the
genuineness Of the bank affair. They
believe it was got up by agents.
The Speaker today says: The official
account ascribing the affair to the Ar
menian agitators is stamped in every
way as falsehood and certain proof
that it is a tissue of lies in that the
assailants of the bank, after their cap
ture, We're removed on board a yacht.
This is not the way the sultan deals
with assassins caught red-handed II
these persons really revolted against the
sultan they would not have lived ten
minutes after their surrender, and the
irresistible conclusion is that the men
were secretly acting under palace Or
ders, and that the riot was promoted
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MASSAGE.
Regarding the bombardment Of the
palace of Zanzibar it appears that the
government, in spite of the pressure
brought to bear upon it by jingo quar-
ters does not intend to enake Zanzibar
a British colony. The present sultan is
a mere figurehead in the hands of the
British officials and the present system
of government is much cheaper than a
colonial government and twill please
the natives better as they want to live
under a Mohammedan sultan The
greatest difficulty in the way of a colony
at Zanzibar is in the fact that it would
entail the immediate abolition of slavery
which would be certain to lead to trou-
BILE.
Said ahlid, the suppressed usurper,
made a very clever move in taking ref
uge in the German consulate, as accord
ing to the German press, he will only
be handed over to the British on the
latters guarantee that he will be treat
ed, If not as prince waging war against
Great Britain, at any rate as a political
prisoner. Thus he could not be executed.
AnpnrdiD n the Zpnz;har d.
vices Said Khalid had revolution CEN
ter at Zanzibar for months past in a
mosque near the French consulate, and
had been watching and waiting for an
opportunity which was furnished him
in the death of the sultan, to make an
outbreak.
The situation of affairs in Rhodesia is
daily more reassuring. The leading
chiefs are already carrying out their
arrangements with Cecil Rhodes to lay
down their arms. Over 100 kraals have
surrendered and others are preparing to
do so.
1t is announced that France has signed
a twelve-year treaty of commerce with
Japan, by which France agrees to re.
nounce consular jurisdiction and the
French concessions at the open ports
within three years, and the two coun-
tries exchange the most favored nation
treatment. France is thus put upon the
same footing as the United States.V
The advance of the British expedition
up the Nile has been seriously retarded
by unheard-of weather during the past
week. A heavy cyclone swept the ad-
vance camp with scarcely any warning,
and sand storm, followed by a thur
and tents, destroying twelve miles of the
new railroad and cutting off telegraphic
communication with the front for sew
eral days.
Several leading London bankers and
brokers have been asked what effect the
unlimited coinage of silver would have
upon American securities and interests
in Englad. The maager of Rothschilds
said: England being a gold country
naturally feels alarmed at any attempt
to pay American debts at half their
value. 1t would have disastrous eff
feet upon such securities, and in fact
this crisis was foreseen by us months
ago and our dealings in the United
States have been very slight.
The free coinage of silver woul have
very little effect upon London as the
dealings in Americans have since the be-
ginning of the year been extremely light
1t would have, however, the tendency
to make a rush in disposing of such Sc
curities.'
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