The age-herald., 1897-11-21
In Skipping the Turk He Gives the
 ka'sen Blow.
THE KAlsER's QUEER ACTIONS IN CHINA
Indicate Rumpus in That Direction Which Will Start the Fire Under the CauIdron in All Directions England Now Has
 a Local Trouble.

London, Nov. 20.-The stock pot of in- ternational politics has been enriched during the past few days by two or three bones which promise 70 furnish an oppor- tunity for plenty of contention hereafter. Russia contributed the fiIst in her notifi- cation of Nov 13 to the porte that ar rears of the Russo-Turl1ish war indem- nifty amounts to 1,900,0 pounds (S65)0,- 0OO), and that if Turkey intends to app.y part of the Greek indemnity to an in crease of the Turkish armaments, Russ.a will demand the payment of this amount. This was followed by second note on the same subject yesterday.
 Austria furnished the second bone in her demand for the payment of arreais due the Oriental Railroad company for transporting Turkish troops during the war, this company being an Austrian concern, and the arrears amount to 32o- GOO pounds ($1, 600 00O), at the dismissal of the vali of Aadanat, Asia Minor, and of the mutesarrlef of Mersina, the port of Mdanai, to all of which demands Turkey submitted.
 Germany's Seasoning
 Germany favored the contents of the stock pot with hot sauce from China in the shape of the landing of her sailors and marines at Kiao Chou on the Shan Tun peninsula, ostensibly for the pur- pose of insisting upon redress for the murder of two German missionaries; but possibly, as it is intimated to obtain a good coaling and repair station on the Pacific coast.
 Russias Chcckmate
 Turkeys case of swelled head is re- sponsible for two of these contentious contributions to the simmering of the political pot. Germany offered her as- sistance to build ships for Turkey and also offered to supply Turkey with the necessary arms, ammunition and uni forms i'll return for about 25 per cent of the Greek war indemnity. Then Russia saw her chance to check the progress of German influence at Constantinople. For the past twenty years she has held her unpaid I. O. U's. as a club to force Turkey to do her bidding, and has kill ed two birds with one stone--namely sharply checking Berlins statesman ship and preventing Turkey from eman- cipating herself from her dependence upon Russia. Great Britains part in these proceedings remains to be develop ed.
 A ACase of Grab
 Germany's swoop down upon Kiao Gnu. bay, China, has excited the chan celleries, and the advices from Shanghai that two steamers have been chartered there to convey stores and material to Kiao Chou bay, coupled with the intima- tion that the German occupation of that place is parently to be more than temporary, color to which is given by the fact that the German marines are now engaged in building winter barracks, leave little doubt tEat Germany has prac- dically annexed Kiao Chou bay which, next to Port Arthur, is the most im- poltant harbor in China.
 As fait accompli is an almost un- answerable argument in the east it is difficult to see what France, Russia, Great Britain and Japan can do in the matter, unless they set to work and grab o.her portions of the Chinese empire. Under these circumstanees the diplomat ts are assuming what the-United States, whose interests in the east are advance ing by leaps and bounds, says of the seizure of Kiao Chou bay.
 Englands Troubles
 The British parliament reassembles during the second week of February, three weeks later than originally intend ed. The principal tasks of the session will be the Irish local government bill and the reform of the London county council. Parliament will also be called upon to legislate for the army, the ques- fion of increasing it's strength appealing most urgently to the country generally. There is spread demand that the other questions be shelved and the ses- sion be devoid to the army.
 It is a notorious scandal that millions of pounds are wasted annually out of the enormous total of 21O0O,O00 pounds (s1o5,- 000,000) expended upon the army. As result the country has entirely lost con- fidence in the war office, and there is a universal cry that the cabinet take the ;., l,p., 7u it,fp