The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-21
pOLITICALST0CKp0T
ENRICHED IN THE PAST FEW DAYS
BY SEVERAL DIPLOMATIC
homes.
THE POWERS ALL INVOLVED.
GERMAN INFLUENCE WITH THE
SULTAN CHECKED BY GAR
OF RUSSIA.
THE POWERS ALL INVOLVED.
NO DELAY IN THE RETALIATION
Seizure of n Chinese HarbOr Empe-
rOr Williams Counter Move
English Talking War.

LONDON, Nov. 20.-The stock pot
of international politics has been en-
riched, during the last few days, by
two or three bones which promise to
furnish an opportunity for plenty of
contention hereafter. Russia con-
tributed the first in her notification of
Nov. IS, to the Porte that the arrears
of TIE Russo-Turkish war indemnity
amount to 100000 pounds sterllng'
and that. if Turkey intends to apply
rart of the Greek war indemnity to
an increase of the Turkish armament,
Russia will demand the payment OF
this amount. This was followed by
second note on the same subject to-
dav. Austria furnished the second
bone in her demand for the payment
of the arrears due the Oriental Rail-
way company for transporting Turk
ish troops during the war, the railroad
being an Austrian concern and the
arrears amounting to 10000 pounds
sterling. at the same time insisting
upon the dismissal of the Vail or
AGana, Asia Minor, and of the Mutes-
sarif of Mersina, the Port Of Adana,
the two officials who were responsible
for the indignities to which an AUS
trian merchant, Brazzafolli, was re-
Gently subjected, and also for their
share in the insults complained OF by
the Austrian consul at Mersina, who
irterfered in behalf of Brazzafolli, the
agent there of the Austrian Lloyd
steamship company, to all of winch
demands Turkey submitted. Incl
dentally the Turkish government is
also said t. have abandoned naval re-
organization plans as a result Of the
second noe of Russia on the subject
of the war Indemnity arrears due that
country.
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-Chan, on
the Shan-Tun peninsula, ostensibiy for
the purpose o. insisting upon redress
for the murder of two German mis-
sionaries; but, possibly, it is intimat-
ed. in order to obtain good coallng
station and hIrbOr for repairing her
fleet in the far East.
Turkeys bad case Of swelled mead
is responsible for two or these coh-
tentions, contributions to the simmer
ing of the political pot. The easy VIC
tories over Greece had so rehabllltated
the sultan's pride that he had almost
arrived at the belief that by following
the advice of Capt. Mahon, the authof
of Sea Power in History, ana max
inc his navy st! Ong, Turkey might
become the seventh great power ana
Iiberate herself from the obnoxious
trtelage of Christendom Germany
va aSCiCtanap tO hnlid SllDS
for Turkey and also offered to supply
that country with the necessary arms,
ammunition and uniforms, in return
for about 25 per cent of the Greek war
Indemnity.
CHECK TO GERMANY.
Then Russia saw her chance to
check the progr. SIS of German influence
at Constantirople. For the past twenty
years she has held her unpaid l. Q. u.
as a club to force Turkey to do her
bidding, and now again, but in more
summary fashion than usual, she mas
reneated the operation and has killed
two birds with ore stone. namely,
sharply checking Berlin craftsmanship
and preventing Turkey from enamel
pating herself from her dependence
upon Russia. Naturally, this has been
a bitter pill for Germany to swallow,
losing. as she does. considerable pres
tige and big contracts at the same mo-
ment.
Count Goluchowski, the Austria Hun
garian minister for foreign affairs, was
glad of the chance to cooperate with
Russia in clipping the sultan's wings,
and he has not only helped to replace
Turkey in the same position OF toler-
ance in Europe that she occupied previ-
Gus to the war with Greece, but the
Austrian minister has thrown some
light upon what may be expected from
the Balkan compact between Russia
and Austria, as limited at by Emperor
Francis Joseph in his speech upon the
occasion of receiving the Austro-Hun-
garian delegations on Wednesday last
Great Britain's part in these proceed
ings remains to be developed. Ger
manys swoop down upon Kiao-Chan
bay, has excited the chancelleries, and
the advices from Shanghai that two
steamers have been chartered there to