The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-09

BERLIN, Aug. S.-Politfcal interest
during the week has centered in Crete
and the means to restore tranquility
in that disturbed island, where the
Christians are making a desperate at
tempt to throw off the yoke of Turk
ish rule, in which they are being aided
by Greeks, who desire to see Crete
part of the Grecian dominion. All
sorts of reports regarding nassacres
and destruction of villages by the
Turks and excuses ON the part of
the Christian inhabitants, are almost
daily circulated. But one thing is
cartain-that the situation of the island
is deplorable-and it is the concensus
of official opinion that something
should be done by the powers in con-
cert to put an end to the present state
of affairs.
GERMAN PRESS HOSTILE.
The German press, especially the
Bismarckian and Conservative organs.
which never attempt to conceal their
hostility to England and all things
English, are particularly sore over
what was paramount to the refusal of
Lord Salisbury, the British prime min
lister, to join in blockade of Crete, and
his alleged championship of Greece
and the Cretans. These papers have
been at a loss to find epithets strong
enough to denounce Great Britain for
her refusal to join in joint naval
blockade of Crete, to prevent the in
surgents obtaining arms and ammuni-
ton and other supplies. German opin-
ion strongly favored, a blockade, but
Great Britain commended that if it were
established it must be
DIRECTED AGAINST TURKEY
as well as against Greece; that is, the
warships should be employed to pre-
vent the entrance of Turkish troops to
reinforce those already on the island,
while at the same time they prevented
the sending of Grecian supplies to the
insurgents. 1t is commended with good
reason that Lord Salisbury we'll knew
the powers would not agree to this,
and consequently the negotiations for
joint action are at a standstill, and
will probably remain SO for some time.
To impartial observers of the situation
it is pretty we'll known Great Britain
will, after her experience in the Ar
menian matter, no longer act as a
protector of Turkey, and that she will
let Russia, which blocked her plans in
regard to Armenia, take all the re-
sonsibility for Turkish misrule. In
official circles here the idea is repudi-
ated that there is anything in the sit
uation that endangers the peace Of
Europe, and, indeed, that though the
prospects are in no wise clear, mat
ters are in some way tending toward
A CONCERT OF THE POWERS,
a concert which, it may be pointed
out, however, may be as futile as the
concert anent Armenia,
where the diplomats found all their
plans frustrated by the diplomacy of
Russia In the meantime the anarchy
which prevails in Crete demands that
some action be taken that will restore +
peace to the island; but what that
action shall be is difficult to decide.
A semi-officiaI statement from st. |
at length announces with /
some definiteness the itinerary of the /
car and czarina ON their trip to va
rious European cities trip that has
caused no little conjecture as to its |
results, as it will be the first time the |
car has left Russia since his acces-
sion to the throne. Their majesties |
will start after the army maneuvres, /
which end on August %, and they will |
visit Vienna, Berlin, Co /
penhagen, Balmoral, Paris and Darn
guests of Queen Victoria, and at Darn
stadt, the czarinas birthplace, they
will visit her majesty's brother, Grand
Duke Ernest Louis, and other men,
0ers of her family.
Prince Lebanon. the Russian foreign
will accompany the party
20 all the cities visited, with the ex-
;eption of Copenhagen and Darmstadt,
where the visit of their majesties will
be of
A PURELY FAMILY NATURE.
Much to the delight of the French
government and Parisians generally.
he car and czarina will probably re-
main in Paris longer than in any other
,ity, but the details of their visit have
lot yet been fixed.
There is some anxiety in government
circles regarding the final decision that
Will be arrived at by the Italian govern
nent anent the Abyssinian question.
General Baldisseri, the commander
IF the Italian forces in Eyrefhia, has
arrived in Rome and has had several
with the minister of war
This is taken to indicate that it is the
Intention to again assume offensive op-
,rations against the Abyssinians VINO,
n the recent campaign against them,
inflicted crushing defeats upon tG1a Ital-
an troops and practically forced them
o abandon the country and retire to the
confines of the italian colony.
1t is reported thar King Menelik of
Abyssfnia has received stores of arms
md ammunition and that he med:tates
In attack upon the Italians in October.
The efforts of German diplomacy will
,e directed toward preve nting Italy
e eanbarking upon a profifless cam
,aign
Fritz Friedman, who was formerly
ne LAWYER of Baron Won Kotze, the
ourt master of ceremonies who was