The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-28
GRAND OLD MAN ATTACKED
GERlIAN PRESS CENSURE HIM FOR
 HIS TURKISH SPEECH.

One Paper Says "It Must be Painful to
 Many EngIishmen to Find That MT.
 Gladstone Does Not Know Any Other
 Remedy for Turkish Exeesses Than tu
 Threaten the Sultan, While at the Samo
 Time Confessing That the Threat Could
 Not be Followed by Action"-This is the
 Tenor of the Criticisms Generally. Berlin, Sept. 27.-The anti-Turkish speech delivered by MT. Gladstone at last Thursdays mass meeting in Liv- erpool has been widely published here. and generally commented upon by the newspapers, a majority of which speak of the address unfavorably. The Vos- sische Zeitung is the most indulgent of any of the leading journals in it's crit- icisns. and goes no further than to ex- press the hope that the words of the former premier will have sobering ef- feet upon the sultan and palace clique
 behind him. At the same time the Vossische suggests the possibility that the almost violent language employed by MT. Gladstone may reawaken the fanaticism of the moslems and the Ar menian revolutionists and their follow CTS, leading to the very results which he so strongly denounced.
 Among other leading German papers
 the consensus of opinion is that the speech is more likely to do harm than good. The suggestion made by MT. Gladstone of a severance of the diplo- matic relations between Great Britain and Turkey is regarded by the papers as fantastic and only likely to encoaIr- age renewal of the massacres in the sultan's dominion.
 The North German Gazette in an ex- haustive article in criticising the speech says:
 Tt must be painful to many English men to find that MT. Gladstone does not know of any other remedy for tn il Turkish excess than to threaten the sultan, while at the same time confess ing that the threats could not be fol- lowed by action.'
 The National Zeitung and some of
 the other journals accuse MT. Glad stone of treating a serious situation with levity The practical expulsion from Berlin a few days ago of Profess sor Thoumayan, the Armenian lectur- CT, who came to organize anti-Turkish meetings, has had a tendency to damp- en any possible official sympathy with the Armenians.
 To the German official mind Profess sor Thoumayan is a mere agitator who perhaps may be personally irreproach- able, but politically is indistinguishable from the widest and most fanaMcal
 Huntchakist or Armenian revolutions ist. According to the semi- official ver- sion of the incident published in the Cologne Gazette, Professor Thoumayan
 owes his life to the German anbassa- dor to Turkey who intereeded in his behalf when the professor was sentenc- ed to death as a, conspirator in Arrne- nian, and procured for him g. reprieve on the strength of Thoupla yan's un- dertaking to abandon his anti Turkish agitation. Nevertheless despite the fact that he received repeated warn- ings from the Berlin police, Thoumay- an continued his attacks upon the sul- tan, and his crowning offence was conn.,
 mitted In his declaration at recent
 anarchist meeting that the porte itself
 had arranged the affair of taking pos- session of the Ottoman bank.
 The North German Gazette to-day prints the entire speech translated ver-
 batim, and attacks Mir. Gladstone viz. cieusly in its accompanying editorial. The German papers are much stung by the taunts of the Russian Journals which are asking why it is that Ger
 many, which has always been parad-
 ing it's military greatness and readt-
 ness for war now shows itself awsd- These journals continue their taunting of Germany by declaring that neither Austria nor Italy betrays such degree of nervous eagerness to hinder all steps
 toward solving the Turkish problem, yet Germany's interests in the Medi-
 terranean are only indirect measures in the sultan's dominion.