The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-01
.DREIBUND SCENTS DANGER.
CONCERTED ACTION IN THE CASE
OF CRETE CONTEMPLATED.

forCements Of Troops to the ISL
nnd-The Turkish Force Numbers
7.2OO Wen and the Cretan 10000.
Berlin, May 51.-The situation in Crete
is engaging the most serious attention OF
the German government and greatly alb
sor1ing public interest. as involving man
ifold dangers to the peace Of Europe. 1t
is an open secret that the government,
ia the event of any radical change taxi
ing place I'm the relations between the
island OF Crete and the porte. will sup
port a proposal for the union Of the is
land with the kingdom Of Greece.
I'm the meantime the question of the an
nexation OF the island Of Crete to Greece
is not one In which the Dreibund is vitally
interested, though communications have
passed between the governments at Ber-
lin, Rome ana Vienna, tending toward
concerted action on the part Of the Drei-
bund powers i'm behalf of Crete, and the
Greek government has asked the govern
ment of Germany to join Greece in ex-
ertlng pressure upon Turkey against the
latter's throwing large achievements
Of Turkish troops into the island, with a
view of wiping out the Cretan revolt b.
sheer force of numbers.
What Greece most desires at present
is that a sort of truce shall be established
between the Turks and the Cretan rebels,
while the European powers confer as to
means Of a final settlement of the
Cretan question. At present the force of
Turkish regular troops on the island is
1920 men, and 1850 additional troops are
about leaving Salonica ana an equal num-
ber are on the eve of departure from
Smyrna to reinforce them. opposing TINS
force there are now over 20OJD Cretan5
under arms, and they are beng rapidly
strengthened 10y Greek volunteers, who
are well armed and possess ample sup
plies of provisions and ammunition. rms
force is able to hold the entire island
against the Turks with the exception OF
the fortified towns.
In an article discussing the immediate
outcome Of the Cretan trouble, the Nos-
siche Zeitung recommends the appoint
ment of a Christian governor for Crete,
VINO snail administer the public affairs
Of the island under the supervision of a
commissioner, who shall be European.
The Hamburger Nachrichten the organ
Of Prince Bismarck, blames England for
| melting the rising Of the people OF crete,
and suggests that the European powers
settle the Cretan question concurrenuy
with the Egyptian question in way which
viii defeat the aims of the English gov
erumeut
Among the officially inspired Austro-
Hungarian newspapers the Pesther
] Lloyd expresses the same opinion as that
4 40vanced BY the Nossiche Zeitung, and
| declares that there must be root and
| branch reform of the public adminisUra-
| tiOn in Crete without delay.
The Austrian clerical organ, Das Water
/ land. expresses its understanding that the
| European powers desire that Crete shall
| be retained as a part Of the Turkish en-
! pire; nevertheless, the Austrian Of1cldls
/ apprehend that the breaking up of the
Turkish empire may begin with the sep
aration Of Crete from Turkey.
Since the first announcement in the mid
| die Of February last of the complete qls-
| cord between the emperor and NJ. Her
! bette, the French ambassador, the emper-
/ or has adhered to his determination not to
| meet the ambassador personally until he
| should call to present his letters of recall,
which he did last Tuesday The meeting
| of the emperor and NJ. Herbette was a for
NAL affair, which marked the ending or
! an extremely disagreeable episode. The
! Cologne Gazette, in very courteous ar
| ticle upon the withdrawal of the plain
speaking French diplomat from the Ger
| man court says that in leaving Berlin, NJ.
| Herbette can feel assured that the Ger
| man officials viii render full justice to the
activity which he has displayed in the di-
rection Of maintaining peace.
M. Herbette will retire permanently from
| the field of diplomacy and return to his
scientific studies. The Marquis de NOail-
| les, formerly French minister and ami bas-
sador to Italy, and ambassador at Con-
stantinople, who has been appointed as NJ.
J HerDette'S successor, is a trained diplO-
mat of high birth, with the personal style
! of Wel-Dred gentleman. and already
commands expectations of success in court
and diplomatic circles Since President
Theirs sent him to Washington as minis
ter of France to the United States IN lSf2
the Marquis de Noailles had a continuous
good official record until 1856, when he left
the diplomatic service at his own request,
ms retirement being associated with his
displeasure at the edict issued by the
| French government banishing the Orleans
| family from French territory.
The Hamburg correspondent saws: 1.-THE
nomination of Marquis de NOailles to be
French ambassador to Germany consti-
tutes triumph of the policy Of NJ. Hano-
tauX, French minister Of foreign affairs
over that of the late radical ministry of
France, who wished to send to Berlin a
democratic ambassador. The GermaIf-f0r-
eign office, getting wind Of this project
the paper says, contributed on it's side to
compel the French government to aban-
don the idea. The presence of the Mar
quIs de Noailles In Berlin, the CorrespOn-
denZ continues viii prove the intention
of France, without sacrificing any of her
old projects of revanche, to maintain re-
lations with Germany through an ambas-
sadOr whose social position will enable
him to inform his government of the tend
| encies of the policy Of Germany in a su-
perior way. 70 that in which NJ. Herbette
was ever able to do"
By the retirement of NJ Herbette who
was the senior of the diplomatic corps,
Count LAMA di Basca, the Italian am
| bassadOr becomes the doyen ambassador,
but on account of the fact that he is a
bachelor the wife Of NJ. de SzOgney Mar
ich, the Austrian ambassador, who is next
in the rank of seniority, becomes the
doyenne of the diplomatic body, and will
make all the presentations of foreign la
dies TO the empress at court functions.
The case of Louis Stern Of New York
who forfeited his bail of $1,000 marks un-
der conviction Of having insulted Baron
Won Thuengen, deputy commissioner Of
the Spa at Kissingen last summer, has
occupied a great deal Of space sn the col
umns of the German press since the publi-
cation Of the spondence on the sub
iect winch passed between Baron Won
/ ThieImann. the German AMBASSADOR at
| Washington, and Hon. Richard Olney
United States secretary of state. The
| home papers have assumed that the publi-
cation of the correspondence was permit
( ted by Mr. Olney for the purpose of caus-
ing Inconvenience to Baron Won Thief
/ mann, and bringing about his retirement
! but it has not occurred to them that the
| correspondence was published I'm the ordi-
! nary course of things with no possible
| bias behind its appearance apart from the
| utterance of an irresponsible press. The
opinion entertained in the foreign office is
that Stern did not exhaust the ordinary le-
gal means at his disposal to obtain a re-
Versal Of his sentence and that he asked
! the state department at Washington to in
terfere in his case before he had gone to
the end of his legal resources, thus Great
frg trouble an around which cOifld have