San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-09-24
EUROPEAN NEWS.
GERMAN GOVERNMENT OFFICES ARE
DESERTED.
Situation in Turkey-Dynamite Plot,
WOman's Congress = American
Women to Speak.

Il WISH 10 SOulll Oll NullSNtl -14GNGll-
burg, German ambassador to France,
who is spending his holidays at his es-
tae in Hanover. Count Won Munster
will return to Paris on October 5th,
and it is needless to say that as the re-
suit of the visit to Prince Hohenlohe,
he is fully primed as to the attitude
he is expected to observe throughout
the sojourn of the Gar at the French
capital, which it is understood is to
keep in the back ground and watch
events. Prince Hohenlohe will remain
in Syria a fortnight, but he has his
plans for the conduct of international
matters during his absence from Ber-
lin fully mapped out and everybody
concerned is fully instructed in his
line of procedure. Baron Marshall
Won Bieberstein, German minister of
foreign affairs, is now at Baden, but
his leave of absence will end on Oct.
18th. In view of the absence of the
chief ministers of the government for
the next three weeks the foreign office
certainly cannot be very greatly con-
cerned over the immediate crisis in the
east. What little diplomatic activi
ty exists now centers in Vienna.
The Hon. Michael Herbert, foreign
secretary to the British embassy at
Constantinople, who so efficiently acted
as the substitute of Sir Phillip Cur
RE, the British ambassador to Turkey
during the recent absence of the lat
ter in England, is on his way to Eng
land on leave of absence. He remain
ed four days in Vienna, leaving there
on Friday. While he was staying in
the Austrian capital, Mr.. Herbert had
three interviews with Count Goluch-
oWski, the Austrian minister of foreign
affairs who is very plainly showing his
desire to make for himself a his
toric name as a statesman by taking
the initiative in dealing with the sui
tan. Only time can decide whether
he is a fussy intermeddler or a far
sighted politician. Mr.. Herbert, &C
cording to reliable advices which have
been received here, advised Count Gu
lochowski to disregard the oft repeat
ed report of Turkish menaces of gener-
al massacre of Christians in Turkey.
If the powers collectively, or Eng
land alone should send a fleet to Con-
stantinople, Mr.. Herbert does not be-
lieye that the sultan possesses the pow
er to effect a general slaughter OF Eu-
ropeans in the Turkish capital city and
he so expressed himself to Count Gu
lochowski. Mr.. Herbert has also been
permitted to repeat to the Austrian for
eign minister his estimate, which he
sent to the British foreign office, of the
forces on land and at sea which would
be necessary to keep order at Constan-
tinople in the event that the sultan
should be deposed.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
presided over a Ministerial council in
Vienna on Friday, at which Count Gu
lochowski, minister of foreign affairs;
Count Badnei, prime minister; Baron
Banffy, Hungarian premier, and Baron
Kallaly de Nagy-Kallo chief of the i'm
perial financial department, were pres
ent. This council is the last that will
be held before the emperor starts his
program, his work beginning with the
Galician military maneuvres and the
Hungarian maneuvres, inaugurating
the iron gates of the Danube canal and
his visit to Bucharest. Since the
council was held the semi-official press
of Vienna have continued their at
tacks upon Lord Salisbury without
Hc DSlilh OhASAAA
seems to have gotten an inkling of the
condition in the Austrian policy Whlcn
is less pro-Russian than formerly
Probably a factor influencing Count
Gulochowski in deciding upon the coun-
ell was that the dissolution of the Hun
garian parliament had been fixed TO
take place in October and that the new
parliamentary elections would be held
in November These events, he sald'
must not be accompanied by the re-
proaches that Hungary had been MADE
a tool of by the Gear
The anti-Turkish meetings when
have been held in the various populous
centres throughout Germany SHOW
rapidly increasing concern in the mas
sacres of Christians in the sultans 40
minions. The Catholic clergy have not
as vet taken so active part IN the
agitation as the Protestant clergy nave
but the Catholic liaty are subscribing
literally to the Armenian RELIEF funus
and the centrist newspapers urge the
necessity of dealing with the sultan
properly, vigorously and finally. Dr.
Lieber, the leader of the Centrist party
in the Reichstag, proposes to demand
that the government adapt an unequl-
yocA policy in regard to the Turkish
massacres of Christians, just as soon
as the Reichstag resums its sittings
in November.
The Reichsbote, a conservative organ
pours out torrents of wrath at the al
legged German apathy in the matter of
the slaughter of Christians. but the
question is whether or not Germany is
apathetic. 1t is true that the govern
ment suppresses any tendency on the
part of the semi official press toward
public excitement against the porte;
yet from every quarter of the empire
come signs that the great political par
ties, the Conservative, Centrist, Ma
tional Liberal and Freissinnige, are