The San Francisco call., 1896-10-12
Car Nicholas to Receive the Of
fcer Who Was Presented
to the Sultan.
THAT COLD FROST IN PARIS
Indignation Among Diplomats Who
Were Ignored in the Important
Festivities.

BERLIN, GERMANY, Oct. 1.-THE lull
in the excitement over affairs in the east
continues the newspapers having decided
to await developments which are expected
10 follow the departure OF the Car from
France before resuming their campaign of
agitation.
It is understood that the Car will
shortly give an audience to General Grumb-
koff, the German officer in the Ottoman
service, who is the bearer of an autograph
letter from the Sultan to the Kaiser. Gen.
eral Grumbkoff is accompanied by the
Sultan's Ambassador, Ghalib Bey, who
will also be received by the Kaiser. The
mission of General Grumbkoff, according
to the semi-otficial Berlin Post, is one OF
great political Importance. In the mean
time an interview with General Grumb-
koff appears in Berlin paper, in
which the Turkish commissioner Wig
orously defends the action of the Sultan
and the leading Turkish officials, contend
ing that no man occupying the Turkish
throne would fulfill the demands OF the
powers Internationally. The Sultan of
Turkey, he maintains, must always take
into consideration the probable effe ct Of
the fulfillmeEt of such demands upon the
Mohammedan populace, otherwise there
would be great danger of Moslem fanati-
cism leading to annihilation of the Chris
tians in the empire.
abdul Hamid," the general says, is a
wise man and in all his actions he invari-
ably looks carefully forward to the prob
able or possible result. If the Sultan
could follow his own desires Turkey would
be happy country, but his most excel
lent aspirations are fettered by empty pub
lie Golfers. The true reform which is
needed in Turkey is financial assistance;
perhaps administered under a control
similar to the administration of Egypt,
but as there is no money there can be no
| reform"
| The pro-Armenian movement in Ger
many is making little progress. Although
| the official wet blanket which has been
cast over the movement wherever it has
existed has not had the effect to quench
| the flame of agitation altogether, the
movement itself has not been seized with
any degree of ardor by the public. DR..
| Pepsius, the leader of the Armenian agita-
| tion, has been summoned to the Foreign
| Office and requested to desist from further
activity in the matter, he being informed,
| it is understood, that as the movement
was strongly political and in no respect a
! philanthropic one, the Government could
not countenance it.
/ The Hamburg Nachrichten, the personal
organ of Prince Bismarck, in it's discus
| sion of the Armenian question, argues
| that the Armenians are rebels, while Ger
many and Turkey have the most friendly
relations. Therefore, the German aiders
and abettors of the Armenians are liable
to punishment under the German GRIM
| inal code.
The circumstance of ignoring the entire
diplomatic CORPS at Paris in the matter of
extending invitations to the various func-
tions upon the occasion of the Cars visit
to Paris. which caused feeling of intense
Indignation among the diplomats them
| selves, is being much discussed in official
quarters here. AT the outset of the enter
lainment OF the Gear the diplomatic body
only received invitations to the gala opera
| performance, and were not asked to be
| present on the occasion OF the Cars entry
| into the city or attend the luncheon at the
! Russian EN- bassy, the religious ceremony
at the Russian church, the banquet at the
| Palace of the Elysee, the laying of the
| foundation-stone of the bridge Alexander
! III, which was really the beginning of the
preparations for the exhibition TO be held
! in Paris in 1900. the visit of the Gar to
Versailles or the performance at the Come
die Franchise.
tions were over the diplomats received
invitations to attend the grand military
review at Chalons, and the attaches OF the
various EN- bassies and legations only OBJ
tanned these in consequence OF the remon-
STRANGE made by Count Won Munster, the
German ambassador, to the Foreign Office.
It is possible that the officials of the
Foreign Office did not relish the quarter
from which The demand for invitations to
attend the great military spectacle OF the
review of the French troops came, for
they promptly disclaimed any response
bility for the omission to send invitations.
and referred the ambassador to the Elysee
eventually emanated.
According to special dispatch to the
Cologne Gazette from St. Petersburg,
President Faure will not pay visit to the
Russian capital as has been suggested, but
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria will
return the Cars visit 10 Vienna, and the
Emperor and Empress of Germany may
also visit ST. Petersburg concurrently with
the Austrian Kaiser unless the unexpected
accouche ment OF the CZarina should com.
pei postponement OF the Imperial visit.
The German Colonial Council will hold
meeting on October IS. The programme
of the meeting embraces discussion of the
colonial budget and the questions OF slay-
cry and slave trading, the military obliga-
tions of settlers in Southwest Africa. The
training of colonial officials ana the mat
ter OF penal procedure regarding natives.
In addition to the discussion of these
questions the recent events at Zanzibar,
| including the matter of the removal from
Zanzibar OF the usurping Sultan Said
Khalib by German warship will doubt
less receive the attention of the meeting.
The more extreme mem bers of the Colo
NAL Council regard the removal of Said
Khailb to Dares-Salam as an i'm portant