The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-05-22
THE TALK OF EUROPE.
Comment ON Things That Have Happened
or May sqon Come to Pass.


or May sqon Come to Pass.
Abdul Hamid, now conscious Of his
strength in consequence of the success
es Of his army in Greece, has resolved
to take steps to obtain more effective
recognition of his. sovereignty over
Egypt, and it is to this intention that
is ascribed in London. as well as in the
continental CAPITALS, his otherwise in
explicable action in continuing to call
10 arms the reserves in his Asiatic prov
inces at an enormous expense, which
his treasury will have difficulty in fac
ing. The war of Greece is so nearly
at an end that these fresh troops cannot
be destined for service in the present
conflict with King George. That Eng
land foresees some trouble of the kind
ON the part of the sublime porte, which
is believed to be acting in Difference to
suggestions received from Berlin, il
shown by the extraordinary prepara-
tions which she is making to meet steps
such az this, even to the extent Of en-
deavoring to pat pressure upon Turkey.
The great channel squadron has been
brought round into the Mediterranean,
and while part Of it is controlling the
strait of Gibraltar the remainder is
patrollinR the route thence to Malta,
where an immense amount OF stores Of
every kind, altogether out of proportion
to the wants of the ordinary garrison,
has lately been accumulated, while the
troops there are quietly being increased
to such an extent that within relative
~ few hours an army corps Of from
85, 600 to 1000 men could be landed
on the coast of Greece or of Turkey or
of Egypt.
In the meantime the Indian squadron
of the English navy has been summoned
from its ordinary station to the Red sea
and is now off Suez, while the ordinary
Mediterranean feet Of Great Britain,
the largest and heaviest ever assembled
In those waters, is lowering between
Crete, Alexandria and the Dardanelles,
acting in such mysterious manner as
to have caused diplomatic inquiries to
be addressed by the foreign cabinets to
Lord Salisbury on the subject, inquiries
which have become more pressing since
it has been ascertained that Great Brit
ain is busily engaged in fitting out one
more of those flying squadrons which it
occasionally organizes at moments when
the condition of affairs appears suffi-
ciently critical to make necessary step
of this kind. England, it may be added,
is in exceedingly bad odor at the sub
lime porte, owing to her refusal to per-
NIT the khedive to comply with the sui
tan's demands for the expulsion Of the
Greeks, who number nearly 80, 900, from
the Nile delta, and for the severance of
all official relations between the Hell
lenic government and that Of the khe-
dive.
| All the guns, standards and other
trophies captured by the French from
| the Russians during the Crimean war
were returned to Russia more than a
year ago. Emperor Nicholas promised
at the time that he would return the
compliment, but in spite Of this assur-
ance no steps have as yet been taken to
restore to France the guns and the flags
which she was compelled to abandon to
the Russians during her terrible retreat
citing both surprise and irritation at
Paris and is tending still further to cool
| off the enthusiasm which, until the be-
| ginning of this year, prevailed in
France in favor of everything Russian.
A new and essentially nineteenth
century use has been discovered for the
catacombs by which the subsoil of Par
is is honeycombed. The subterranean
galleries of this kind beneath the JAR
din des Plantes have now been convert
ed into species of laboratory and aqua
rium A number of them have been fit
ted with reservoirs and glass tanks,
while i'm others the inches that once con-
tained human bodies have been con-
verted into cages, where scientists are
able to study the effect of total and par
tial darkness upon animal life.
1t is generally felt throughout Ger
many that Dr. Peters, the late imperial
commissioner and governor of German
East Africa, should have received u
more severe punishment than mere dis
missal from the service of the crown,
for he was tried on charges Of having
caused some of his native servants, a
boy and a girl, to be hanged, the girl
for having manifested preference for
a dusky rival of the doctor i'll her af-
fections and the boy for having pur.
loined four of his masters cigars, while
he caused other native women, men,
bers of his household, to be subjected to
such barbarous corporal punishment ON
the most trivial pretexts that they sue
cumbed to the torture. In fact, the man
has shown during the course of his trial
to have behaved like an absolute ruff
fan, flogging, hanging and shooting as
| if demented, and the German govern
ment has done we'll in getting rid Of
such servant. lnasmuch as DR.. Peters
Processes to have accepted now an en-
/, Ragement to net as the representative
in Africa Of syndicate Of American
capitalists interested in African enter
prises, it is just as well that the circum-
stances Of his dismissal by the German
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