The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-07
POWERS COMBINE
AGAINST TURKEY,
The Ottoman Empire to Be
Reduced to a State of
Tutelage.
MAssACRES MUST STOP.
Greater Horrors Are Anticipated
Before Armed Intervention
Occurs.
MEETING OF THE EMPERORs.
William Is DESTINATIONS in His Friend.
ship, but Nicholas Keeps Him
at a Distance.
MEETING OF THE EMPERoRs.
copyright, 1sss,Dy the United Associated Pressesl

BERLIN, GERMANY, Sept. 6.-The con-
ferences which have taken place between
the Car and the Emperor and their &C.
companying Russian and German diplo-
mats, which at first were alleged to be de-
void of anything more important than
mere ceremonial conversations, are now
reported to have taken the charactr of
initiating a new concert of the powers.
which is to have bearing of the utmost
importance upon future events in Turkey.
1t is not known definitely who originated
the proposal, but it is, however, matter
of positive knowledge in Berlin that
Prince Hohenlohe, the Imperial Chancel-
lor and Count Won Osten-Sacken, the
Russian ambassador to Germany, are dis
cussing plan, the purpose of which is to
place the Sultan under the tutelage of the
EN- bassadors of the powers in CONSTANT
nople, who will be empowered to control
the Sultan's selection of Ministers, and
also his appointments of provincial Gov
errors.
The settlement of the troubles in Crete
upon the basis of European supervision
seems to have been the keynote of this
scheme, which at least would maintain
time enable the powers to escape being
dragged into European war over the di-
vision of the spoils of the Ottoman en-
pire. Practically the foreign ambassadors
are already treating Turkey as a Govern
ment existing wholly upon sufferance, but
they do not take the responsibilities which
ought to be as ISOLATED with the situation.
Only the bare proposals nave been heard
Z l -
ing the scheme, but the plan is doubtless
full of difficulties in the way of its work
ing smoothly. One thing, however, is
certain, and that is that both the entour-
age of the Kaiser and that of the Gar are
convinced that they can no longer rest
content upon mere diplomatic remon-
strances to the Porte, and 1t is well under
stood that family influences upon the
Gar at Copenhagen and similar infiu-
ences upon the Kaiser at Balmoral have
become insistent beyond precedent in
favor of an effective stoppage of the hor-
rors in Turkey; and these influences, it is
believed, may have been the most potent
of all in determining the two Emperors
upon the course which it is now proposed
10 pursue.
Diplomatic advices received from Con-
stantinople are such as to cause WELL
grounded fears here that very much worse
things than have already occurred in Con-
stantinople may happen in that city before
the En- bassadors are able to arrange for
armed Intervention to suppress disorders;
that the Sultan's palace clique, learning
that the Sultan's reign is about to cease,
may organize a massacre upon a very
much larger scale than heretofore, and
which Will involve many other persons
than Armenians as its victims.
The reports that the British, French and
Italian warships in Turkish waters have
been REINFORCED, while the German war
ships have not, have excited a widespread
feeling of discomfort which is being freely
expressed In the newspapers regardless of
their political bias
Despite the activity of other powers In
augmenting their naval strength in Turk
ish waters, the admiralty OF Germany
has taken no steps to increase the strength
and number OF the German war vessels
there, but now, apparently goaded By the
utterances OF the press into doing some
thing, they have ordered the training-ship
Gneisenau to Smyrna and the gunboat
Ersatz to replace the old and wornout
Lorelei on the Conslantinople station
These measures are extremely poor; in
deed, little better than none at all if Ger
many is to figure in the Intervention OF
the powers in front Of Constantinople.
The fetes at Bresau in honor OF the Gar
and Czarina bear a close resem blance to
all OF the preceding demonstrations of the
kind. The streets OF the town are
thronged with people, who cheer in sea-
son and out and persistently press upon
the long lines of troops who occupy the
borders of the streets to keep the crowd
from impeding the progress of the impe-
rial visitors and the Kaiser and Kaiserin,
with their suites, as they pass.
The heat yesterday and to-day was in
tense, and served TO increase the general
discomfort OF the people. High prices for
every conceivable thing for which there