The San Francisco call., 1896-08-30
Little Likelihood Of the Powers
Preventing the Slaughter
of Christians.
THAT ZANZIBAR BoMBARDMENT
Certain German Traders Rather
Pleased With the Decisive
Stand of England.
copyright. 1886, by the New York rImes.l

and has retreated again, leaving Europe
more uncertain about the immediate
future than before. For some reason
Vienna expected great things of his visit.
Even the official papers were inspired to
say that political questions of the highest
Importance would probably be settled
while the Gar and his advisers were in
the Austrian capital. This seems, how
ever, to have been mistake. All that
Vienna saw of the Gar was at the rail-
way station. When he arrived there
people noted that he was pallid with an
indescribably tired face. He looked very
small and weak beside his tall, haughtiy
beautiful wife as she alighted from the
train dressed in a zobe of azure satin,
heavily EN- broldered with silver, her hat,
plumes, mantle, shoes and parasol Of the
same color, but without gloves. There to
greet her. attired in deep plain black, was
the Empress of Austria, who had not been
seen in public by the Viennese before
since the suicide of her son.
Privileged correspondents observed that
the two women kissed and then began to
converse in German, while the Gear and
the Austrian Emperor spoke French.
party and hid from view their progress to
the Hofburg, and secluded them utterly
for two days, while windstorm and tor
rents played havoc with the street decora-
tions. Now their Majesties have gone as
they came, and Vienna learns that not
only is nothing changed for the better,
but at the formal banquet of welcome,
while the Emperor spoke of ''the new tie
of friendship which unites US" the Gear
eoldly refrained from adding a single
word to a bare acknowledge of the
toast. 1t had been said that Prince
Lobanoff would remain behind at Vienna
for week to arrange the details of some
large and benehcent political compact,
but he too is gone.
That there has been hitch is only too
manifest. What it is no one knows. Only
last Tuesday France was authoritatively
informed that the Czarina would certainly
accompany her husband to Paris. To-day
it is announced from Vienna that she is
not well enough to undergo the fatigue of
travelling, and will remain in Russia, while
the Gear makes his other visits at once.
Although there exists a certain physical
pretext for this, it is perfectly compre-
hended that the plea Is merely pretext,
for princesses are trained from childhood
to undergo weakness and to withstand
fatigues in the interest of dynastic poll
tics. to which plain people can afford to
yield. If it had been deemed desirable
that she should appear at Breslau or at
Paris there is no doubt whatever that she
would go. There is room for the suspicion
that she will be too tired to visit Breslau,
but will recover sufficiently to Journey by
sea to France. This would turn the whole
tour of the Czar into demon stration
against what is left of the Triple Alliance,
and from Vienna's conception of the
spirit on which it begun there this seems
not unlikely.
While the Emperor was toasting the
Gar at Vienna the streets of Cons tanti-
nople were running with Armenian blood.
Perhaps the tidings of this renewal of
murderous rioting at, Stamboul had their
effect upon young Nicholas nerves. At
the beginning of this month Bishop Sat-
terlee of Washington, on behalf of the
Anglo-American Committee, obtained a
personal audience with the Gar and
CZarina and read to them a petition in
volving full recital of the atrocities that
have been committed upon the Armenians
by the Turks. and though the Gar made
no definite response the Bishop saw evil
dences that he was hearing good deal of
this for the first time.
Previously the Bishop had been warned
by the palace officials that the mere men,
ton of ArmenlaRs would suffice to pre-
vent the Gar from receiving him, but he
stuck to his guns ana even added refer
ences to Crete to his talk. Three days
later the Bishop was received by the
Dowager Empress, who revealed the fact
that she had been told that the intrigues
nF - n
the trouble in Armenia. She was greatly
touched by the Bishops narrative, and
when he spoke of the duty of Christian
nations to interfere and stop these horrors,
she wrung her hands and cried, ''Oh, if
they only would"
These incidents, which l have from an
absolutely trustworthy source, suggest in
teresting thoughts about what may be IN
The Cars mind now that Constantinople
IS again in convulsions and new slaugh-
ter OF Armenians has begun, whic will
probably run its course all through ASA
Minor. The fact that a small group of
Armenian fanatics deliberately provoked
this new cycle OF masSacres is insisted on
good deal at the moment but it may be
lost sight OF later on.
To use their own phrase Armenians
wanted to thrust their finger in the eve
of Europe" One can hardly wonder that
the spectacle of Cretans at once securing
the sympathy and effective protection of
the powers, while the unspeakably greater
misery and martyrdom of their own people
brought no help, should infuriate the
Arme mans. II is true that they are not a
likable race in the sense that Cretans are,
but. after all. they are human beings, and
their cup of Wretchednsss is running over
1t is believed here that within fortnight
the whole Turkish question will reach q
stage of greater gravity and more immi-
nent danger than has existed before since
the treaty of Berlin was signed.
The Paris press IS running riot with wild
suggestions for symbo,ical novelties with
which to welcome the Czar. The unmeas-
ured enthusiasm of those who want to be-
have as if the Cars visit were the great
est event in her history naturally provoked
cool heads like Ciemenceau to oppose the
whole business with perhaps gratuitous
sharpness.
This disposition to criticize the value
of the Russian connection altogether is
getting hold of the French radicals gen.
orally, and the fact that at Vienna the
person to whom the Gear gave the longest