The herald., 1897-11-21
LOTS OF BONES
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Political Pot
RUSSIA CONTRIBUTES ONE
IN HER DEMAND FOR TURKISH
INDEMNITY
Austria Furnishes Another and Ger
many Adds Some Very Hot
Sauce From the Orient
Associated Press Specia! Wire.


LONDON, Nov. 20.-(Copyright 1879
The stock pot of international politics
has been enriched during the last few
days by two or three bones which prom
Use to furnish an opportunity for plenty
Of contention hereafter. Russia con-
tributed the firsdtn her notification Nov
13 to the porte of the arrears of. tha
Russo-Turkey war indemnity amount
Turkey intends to apply part of the
Greek war indemnity to an increase Of
the Turkish arnaments Russia will de-
mand the payment of this amount. This
followed by a second note on the same
subject.
Austria furnished the second bone in
her demand for the payment of arrears
due the Oriental Railway company for
transporting Turkish troops during
the war, the railroad being an Austrian
concern and the arrears amounting TO
42S0.Q00 sterling, at the same time in
sisting upon the dismissal of the vail of
Adana, Asia Minor and of the mulaes of
Mersina, at the port of Adana the two
officials who We're responsible for the
indemnities to which an Austrian mer-
chant, Brazzafoli. was recently subject
ed. and also for their share in the insults
complained by the Austrian consul at
Mersina, who interfered in behalf of
Brazzafoli, the agent there of the Aus
trian Lloyd Steamship company. to all
of9which demands Turkey submitted.
incidentally the Turkish government
is alsp said to have abandoned her naval
reorganization plans as a result of the
second note of Russia on the subject of
the war. indemnity arrears due that
country.
Germany favored the contents of the
pot with hot sauce from China. in the
shape of the landing. of her sailors and
marines at Kiao Chau, ostensibly for the
purpose of insisting upon the redress
for the murder of two German mission
aries; but possibly, it is intimated. in or
der to obtain.a q good coaling station and
harbor for repairing her fleet in the far
east.
Great Britain's part in these proceed
ings remains to be developed
Germany's swoop down upon .Kiao
Chau bay has excited the chancellories
and the advices from Shanghai that
two steamers have been chartered there
to convey stores and materials in Kiao
Chau bay, coupled with the fact that
the German marines are now engaged
in building winter barracks. leave little
doubt that Germany has practically an
neXed Kiao Chau bay. which, next t.
Port Arthur, is the most important har-
Dor in China
The news from India is about as dis
couraging as it can be. The sudden re-
crudescence of the activity of the tribes
men, when it was thought the affair
was about finished. shows that what
ever the British officials may think, the
natives of the invaded country are not
aware that they are beaten. Their sup
plies of ammunition and food seem to
be inexhaustible. while, according to the
latest evidence. they have been in re-
ceipt of a constant supply of rifles and
cartridges from Birmingham via the
Persian gulf and Afghanistan.
a bad feature of the campaign is the
rapid approach of winter. 1t is already
bitterly cold on the frontier and the
British troops are not equipped for a
winter campaign. The cost of the mill
tary operations is already estimated OF
60, 100000, and this amount will probably
be doubled by the close Of the campaign.
CANINE POLITICS
The, dog muzzle plays very important
part in the politics of Great Britain. the
discomfort of the. dog owners at the rig
orous muzzling orders, which have now
been two years in force, having raised
the muZzle to the dignity of grave po-
litical question: There is abundant evil
dence that it Influenced the recent bye
elections ana that it is generally dis
turbing the peace Of the Ministers The
Marquis of Salisbury. during the course
of his speech at the Albert Hall on Tues
day last, admitted this in his usual cyni-
HORSE AND MAN