The morning news., 1897-03-29
cpFrAN CRISIS COMPLICATED.
.x ,rsrRO-RUssIAN CLASH A NEW
POSSIBILITY.

uer Forces IN boshAs~ "Hu AASA Ss"-
,.o-Jhe Kaiser Inclined to Grant
,.oece concessions in Realign-
,. of Her Frontier, But Russia
Ant 10 object.
rorlin March 2S.-Despite the perpleXities
- the ministerial situation and the calls
mon his time arising from the memorial
- If the mast week, the kaiser has been
oh.o 70 give large share of his attention
:, +be eastern crisis. Nearly every day he
hos held protracted conferences with the
chancellor or Baron Marschal Won Bieber-
stein minister of foreign affairs, at which,
,bouph internal affairs were undoubtedly
discussed the foreign situation had a
rroninent part. 1t is known that the
Il Laiser has been again in direct communi-
oation with the sultan and following his
occasional use of the right to be his own
foreign minister has sent personal instruc-
Il ,ions to Baron Saurma Won Jeltsch, Ger
4 man ambassador at Constantinople, and
q 10 Baron Won Plessen, German minister at
8 Athens.
8 The ministerial press here argues with
H some apparent degree of justice that the
& kaiser. in again resuming an active roll
M in the protracted negotiations concerning
II Greece, has entirely disinterested aims.
If he seemingly follows in the wake of the
car. it is because of the fact that up TO
8 the present time the policy of Russia has
been directed to the maintenance of the
e statu quo in the Balkan peninsula, which
concurs not only with the general inter-
ests of peace but especially agrees with
the interests of Austria, Germany's ally.
But there are near prospects of the di-
& |vergence of Germany from Russia's lead.
Previous dispatches have already de-
nounced the current fictions that the
kaisers policy was in any wise influence
ed by his personal enmity to the Greek
royal family, or that he has ceased all re-
latons with his sister, the Duchess of
Sparta. There is good ground for stating
that while opposing Greece's seizure of
# Crete the kaiser has had in view the sat
E isfaction of Greek claims in another quar-
ter and that he has now suggested to the
sultan the rectiication of the frontiers of
8 Greece according to the terms of the
-OuIlttuNi pLOlOtOl VI the DGIln treaty
s It's felt and admitted in the highest quar-
ters here that Greece cannot withdraw
+ from Crete, abandon all her claims, and
submit 10 the behests of the powers with
put some compensation. A revolution at
Athens, after so many sacrifices on the
E part Of the nation, would be inevitable.
Crete is for the time at all events, lost to
s Greece but King George has caused the
s bowers to be informed that the basis of
pacific settlement can be found in the
acqulsition by Greece of the terri
tory accorded to her under the
B Berlin treaty. The Greek frontier would
hen run from Mavroneiri on the Gulf Of
Saonca to and including Metsovo, and the
AXE Of Janina, the line ending on the
south bank of the river Kalama. Within
this strip of territory the people are nearly
Greek, 1t has no strategic Importance for
turkey and its cession could not, or ought
not to awake into action the Serbo- -Bulga-
ran alliance That Russia will assent to
ths adjustment, however, is more than
doubuul. When Greece demanded in 1891
s 'he frontier assigned to her under treaty
he porte refused and Russia backed up
Fl .he reTusai Now that a secret entente ex-
ISIS between the porte and Russia, the
enanees of acceptance by the porte are
small; yet the powers know that this
small measure of justice to Greece will
avert war, and this consideration must
nave its influence.
The Serbo- Bulgarian alliance will he full
concluded at Belgrade early in April
Prince Ferdinand, ACCOMPANIED by his
PRIME minister, M. Stoiloff then goes to
lF serVlan capital M. Stoiloff and King
afxander's prime minister NJ. Simtich,
a'e consulted the Russian government on
As terms of the alliance which has re-
1Eea u,5 approval from st. Petersburg.
Ihe the Austrian official press
make only casual reference to
arrangement that confirms Rus
van domination in the Balkan
saleS the Buda Pesth papers are more
sSpoKen' y. The sum of the matter is that
.1e present Austria, though seriously
THehenslYe, can do nothing except to
hslhen her forces in Bosnia and Herze-
S.iha' and this Is silently being done.
'uins the past four weeks there has been
eorslant stream of men and munitions
'o BOSNIA, chiefly towards Serajevo. Mil
opilloh mere concurs in viewing the
pai duons for war now proceeding
salnst all the Balkan states as not maxi
immediate operations imminent on any
en- on the Greco-Turkish frontier.
assl. encounters there may occur, but the
IN Ihessaly are still under snow,
s,a the case along the Great Balkan
rTl ana movements of troops in mass
kibio III sOihe weeks yet almost impoS-
me sailing Of Crown Prince Constantine
~" Athens for Volo. Thessaly. last even
hhe LaVcohipanied by the crown princess,
sr,oeser na'ser sister, who will go as far as
Ssa' Is not held here as implying the
5gnlhs or an outbreak between Greece
.uIheS' nut, on the contrary, II is un-
Irnoou mere that the aim Of the crown
all Is 10 counteract the influence of the
Sai committees, which are working
naIu as they can to incite the Greeks
\, 's OF lnsubordination on the mart
bn vi" creek soldiers in making attacks
r." !ne Turks across the border with
u,nt DJgct or preciptating an embroil-
Ia ov, Mhlch diplomacy viii be powerless
r. rsro'ercone. Crown Princess Sophie will
nerD,aul week at Larissa, in order TO sr-
'Ie the organization OF the work of
lateS eu cross Society. which conter-
tyent 90 n extensive programme IN the
Tbe Ii ~ serious hostilities.
b. y. + frankfort Gazette saws that Won
1oIlz Pacha, the German general who
oTo iSea the present Turkish army ana
hi N uIhe ago severed his relations vyith
bf bi, HIsh military department because
roina 9IsBust with the way things were
o,,a IS candidate for the office M
lccess. wan sOou chances OF
bst b.s't,s,arding Crete, the military view IS
be a.. ~ VIII require 5000 troops TO effect
ho-called pacification Of the islanders
sen.eg choose to resist. There are 10000