The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-09-07
TURKISH CRESCENT WANING
IT NOV HANGS PALE AND LOW IN
 THE EASTERN SKY.


 Through sufferance-- Germany and Rus-
 sia Working to Have the Sultan Placed Under Tutelage of Ambassadors at Con-
 stantinople-Powers Tired of Remon-
 strating With the Ridiculous Porte
 British, French and Italian WaYships to
 be Reinforced.
 Berlin, Sept. 6.-Thei conferences be- tween the czar and emperor and theln accompanying Russian and German diplomats, which at first were alleged to be devoid of anything more impor- tant than mere ceremonial conserva- tions, are now reported to have taken the character of initiating new con- cert of the powers which is to have a bearing of the utmost importance upon the future events in Turkey. It is not known definitely who originated the proposal, but 1t is a matter of posi- tive knowledge in Berlin that Prince Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor, and Count von Osten Sacken, the Russian ambassador to Germany, are discussing plan, the purpose of which is to place the sultan under the tutelage of the ambassadors of the powers in Constan- tinople, who will be empowered to con- trol the sultans selection of ministers and also his appointments of provincial governors.
 The settlement of the troubles in Crete upon the basis of European s1- pervision appears to have been the ley- note of this scheme, which at least would maintain the nominal integrity of Turkey and for a time enable the powers to escape being dragged into European war over the division of the spells of the Ottoman Empire. Practi- cally the foreign ambassadors are al- ready treating Turkey as a government existing wholly upon sufferance but they do not take the responsibilities which ought to be associated with the situation.
 Only the bare proposals have been heard of outside of the circle which ia formulating the scheme, but the plan is full of difficulties in the way of it's working smoothly One thing, howe l ever, is certain and that is that both the entourage of the kaiser and thaa of the czar are convinced they can nu longer rest content upon, mere diplo- matic remonstrances to the porte and 1 it is well understood that family in- fluences upon the czar at Copenhagen and similar influences upon the em- l af poJv effective stoppage of the horrors i'm Turkey. These influences it is believ- ed may have been the most poteEt of all in determining the two emperors upon the course which it is now pro- posed to pursue.
 l Diplomatic advices from Constantine ople are such as to cause we'll grounded fears here that very much worse things than have occurred in Constantinople | may happen before the ambassadors are able to arrange for armed inter- ventlon to suppress disorders; that the sultan's palace clique, learning that the sultan's reign is about to cease. nav organize massacre upon very much larger scale than heretofore and which l will involve many other persons than Armenians as it's victims
 1 The reports that the British. French and Italian warships in Turkish waters have been reinforced, while the Ger man warships have not, have excited a, widespread feeling of discontent which is being freely expressed in the news~ papers, regardless of their political bias. Despite the activity of the others powers in augsmenting their naval strength in Turkish waters, the admir- 1 atty of Germany have up to this time l taken no steps to increase the strength and number of the German war vessels l there, but now, apparently goaded by
 the utterances of the press into doing something, they have ordered the training ship Gneisenau to Smyrna and
 the gunboat Ersatz to replace the old and worn -out Loreley on the Constant- inople station. These measures are ex- | tremely poor indeed little better than
 none at all, If Germany is to figure in ! the intervention of the powers in front | of Constantinople.
 | Breslau. Sept. 6.-The festivities in l connection with the visit of the czar and czarina were continued to-day, but l 1t being Sunday, the popular enthusi- asm was not as demonstrative as it was l yesterday. Emperor William and Em-
 press Augusta Victoria attended al
 luncheon given to-day by their imperi-
 al majesties of Russia. Twenty-four 1 covers were laid. The luncheon was 1 given in the grand reception room oa 1 the new house of the Silesian landtag. After the luncheon the czar and Chancellor HohenIohe were closeted to- gether. It Is not positively known what matters were discussed, but there
 is strong belief that the action to be 1 taken by Russia and Germany in con-
 nection with the Turkish question was considered at length.
 In the evening a gala performances
 was given at the State theater. The play was the second part of the "Mili-
 taer Fromme," and it was very anus ing. Emperor William shook with laughter, and even the czar smiled at
 the absurdities of some of the posi- l tions.
 This evening representative of the l United Associated Presses had a con- versation with one of Chancellor von | HohenIohe's aides. who said that the
 chancellor was exceedingly well pleas-
 ed with the result of his audience with
 the czar. He added that an absolute entente had been effected and that this