The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-17
GOVERNMENT UNABLE TO COPE
WITH THE NECESSITIES OF THE
SITUATION.
PLAGUE ADDED TO FAMINE.
THE GREATEST CALAMITY SINCE
THE ENGLISH OCCUPATION Is
NOW IMMINENT.
SEVENTY MILLIONS ARE IN NEED
contributions From the United
States VIII BE Thankfully Re-
cefved at London.

LONDON, Jan. 16.-For some time
past everything has pointed to the fact
that India is face to face with the
most appalling calamity since the Brit
ish occupation. The spread of the bu-
bonlc plague came almost with dra-
matte suddenness on the heels of the
famine and created through out Europe
feeling of the greatest alarm. Up to
the present, the two visitations have
been confined to separate areas, but it
is extremely probable that the plague
will ere long reach the famine districts
owing to the impossibility of prevent
ing the migration of the panic-stricken
natives, and should this turn out to
be the case, competent authorities look
forward to terrible mortality The In
dian government appears hardly to
nave foreseen such a gigantic under
taking as that of relieving the necessi-
ties of over eighty million of people.
and it's ready acquiescence to the propo-
slt1on to appeal tC private charity in
dicates that it now recognizes the in
sufficiency Of It's arrangements.
The sympathy Of Great Britain is
now thoroughly aroused, and relief
FUNDS have been started in all the chief
towns. 1t is expected the total Of the
fund will reach at least $500, 900, which
was the amount subscribed for the re-
lief Of the sufferers Of the last famine.
The newspapers urge that some more
drastic measure be adopted, and one
OF the weekly papers suggests that par
lament vote big grant, or loan India
f1O, 100000. A representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press called on the lord mayor,
George Faudel Phillips, after the meet
ing at the Mansion house today. The
lord mayor said he was hopeful that
Americans would cooperate, and he
wrote the following statement, which
he asked should be published in the
United States:
with profound gratitude any donations from
the people of America for the India famine
renef FUNDS. He invites the junior branch of
the united family to emphasize their noble
feeling toward the mother country which the
mother country cherishes for them
George Faudel Phillips, Lord Mayor.
All continental governments are
adopting precautionary measures and
imports from India Of RACES, linen and
other articles capable OF conveying
germs are prohibited, and it is an
nounced that q European conference
Will be held at Rome to consider the
adoption of combined measures to pre-
vent the plague from invading Europe.
the Russian government has sent
doctors to Persia to watch the progress
OF the disease, and If it appears there,
the Russion frontier will be immediate
~ closed.
The Indian government has Dispatch
ed the director general Of the medical
service to study the plague at Bombay
and two chief officials Of the Egyptian
sanitary staff have also gone there to
study the epidemic and prevent it's
spread to Mecca, which, If it occurred.
would probably mean the invasion of
Egypt The Mecca pilgrimage is now
a source Of the greatest anxiety to
European governments, and 1T is urged
On many sides that the pilgrimage
ought to be stopped. 1t appears that
at the international sanitary council
at Constantinople, the Austrian dele
cation proposed that the pilgrimage
from India should be prohibited, but
the Turkish delegate opposed this on
the ground that it is an essential part
OF the Mohammedan faith.
The Daily News publishes a long ar
t1cle advocating prohibition of the pill
grimage and suggests that the Euro
pean ministers at Teheran and ST.
Petersburg induce the shah and the
car to proclaim the closing of the
channels of pilgrimage while the Tur-
kish authorities close the port of Jed
dab. Great Britain under treaty ar
rangements can prohibit Afghan pill
gr1ms from traversing India and can
also stop the eff1ux from Beloocnistan
The Austrian government has decided
to prevent, so far as possible, the pill
grimage from Bosnia and Herzegovina
%{erl,
report that six plague cases have
reached Marseilles. but adds that it
believes the disease will not spread, as
the town Is in good sanitary condition.
About fifteen officers and officials
sailed from Liverpool today for the
Guinea coast to avenge Consul Phil
lips and his party, massacred by the
Inhabitants of Benin City, west coast
of Africa, and war stores will follow
next week. The British war vessels
on that station will furnish a landing
party Of 500 blue jackets, who, with
800 Haussa troops, will form an expe-
dition for Benin City, whose most for
roidable defense is a rampant of mala-
rial swamps. The party will be provid-
ed with machine guns and war rockets
Operations, it is expected, will be fin
ished by the end of February before
the rainy season commences.
President-elect Mckinley has como
in for a great deal of chaff over the
American-made suit, which he is to
wear at his inauguration. One paper
caricatures him in a grotesque, baggy
garment. The Globe thinks it un
fortunate that an artist Of the name Of
Koeval is the most national tailor that
America can find. ...,.
The Young Turk agitation is spread.
ing In the Balkan peninsula. Placards
posted on the walls of the towns de-
nounce the sultan in unmeasured terms.
This has created great stir and alarm
among the Turks. One red-printed
placard, which was torn down by the
police, read:
Sultan Hamid is known to be mad. and
our religion prescribes us to kill every mad
dog. The yuong Turks, who have hitherto
abstained from bloodshed have now decided
to assume the title Of revolutionary and in
future will use arms against the sultan and
his followers. 1t is our duty now to kill
burn and ruin everything connected with the
YildiZ kiosk. We shall blow 1t UP. Let
every true Moslem do his duty.
A dispatch to the Associated Press
from Dublin says that there is no truth
in the statement that Cardinal Logue
archbishop Of Armagh and primate of
Ireland, has urged John Dillon to re-
tire from the Craftsmanship of the Irish
parliamentary party and to allow
Thomas Sexton to succeed him.