Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1897-11-21
SEVERAL ADDITIONS MADE TO THE
STOCK LAST WEEK.
TURKEY CAUSED WI OF THEM
HER HEAD BADLY sWELLED SINCE
SHE WHIPPED GREECE.
Russia and Austria Both Bring Her
to Time With UItimatCms-Ger-
many's Seizure of kiao-
Chnu Bay Causes Ex-
m

London, Nov. 20.-(Copyrighted, 1881, by
the Associated Press.) The stock pot OF
international politics has been enriched
during the last few days by two or three
bones which promise to furnish an oppor-
tunity for plenty of contention hereafter.
Russia contributed the first in her noti-
fication of November 10 to the porte that
the arrears of the Russo-Turkish war in
oemnity amount TO E l,300.00. and that If
Turkey intends to apply part of the Greek
war indemnity to an increase OF the Tur-
kisE a.maments Russia will demand the
payment of this amount. This was fol-
lowed by a second note on the same SUBJ
ject to-day.
Austria furnished the second bone in her
demand for the payment of the arrears
due the Oriental Railway Company for
transporting Turkish troops during the
war. the railroad being an Austrian con-
cern and the arrears amounting to ESQ.,
coo. at the same time insisting upon the
dismissal of the Vail of Adana. Asia Min
or. and of the Mutessarif of Merstna, the
pert Of Adana. the two officials WHIT were
responsible for the indignities to which an
Austrian merchant, BrazzafollL. was re-
Gently subjected to, and also for their
share in the insults complained of by the
Austrian consul at Mersina, who interfered
in behalf of Brazzafolli, the agent there
of the Austrian Lloyd Steamship Company,
to all of which demands Turkey submitted.
Incidentally the Turkish government is also
said to have abandoned her naval reor-
ganization 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
stock pot witt hot sauce from China in
the shape of the landing of her sailors and
narfrnc ~ TO Cba., Nctancfl1x, for cha
purpose of insisting upon redress for the
murder of two German missionaries: but
possibly. it is intimated. in order to OBJ
tain a good coaling station and harbor
for repairing her feet in the far East.
Turkeys bad case of swelled head is
responsible for two of these contentious
contributions to the simmering of the po-
litical pot. Her easy victories over Greece
have SO rehabilitated the sultan's pride
that he had almost arrived at the belief
that, by following the advice of Captain
Mahan, the author of Sea Power in His
tory" and making his navy strong. Tur-
key might become the seventh great pow
err and liberate herself from the obnoxious
tutelage of Christendom. Germany prof.
fered her assistance to build ships for Tur-
key and also offered to supply that coun-
try with the necessary arms. ammunition
and uniforms. in return for about Is per
cent of the Greek war indemnity.
Then Russia saw her chance to check
the progress of German influence at Con-
stantinople. For the past twenty years,
she has held her unpaid l. o. U. as a
club to force Turkey to do her bidding, and
now again, but in a more summary fashion
than usual, she has repeated the operation
and has killed two birds with one stone,
namely: Sharply checking Berlin states
manship and preventing Turkey from
emancipating herself from her dependence
upon Russia. Naturally. this has been a
bitter Dill for Germany to swallow. los
ing, as she does, considerable prestige and
big contracts at the same moment
Count Goluchowski, the Austrian-Hun-
garian minister for foreign affairs, was
GLAD Of the chance to cooperate with Rus
STA in clipping the sultan's wings, and he
has not only helped to replace Turkey in
the same position of tolerance in Europe
hat she occupied previous to the war with
treece. but the Austrian minister has
I Town some light upon what may be ex-
p,cted from the Balkan compact between
4 'ssia and Austria. as limited at by EN-
pe'or Francis Joseph in his speech upon
tn, occasion of receiving the Austro-Hun-
ga,ian delegations on Wednesday last.
Great Britain's part in these proceedings
re mains to be developed.
Germany's swoop down upon kiao-Chau
by has excited the chancelleries, and the
aivices from Shanghai that two steamers
have been chartered there to convey stores
and materials in kiao-Chau bay, coupled
with the intimation that the German occu-
patton of that place is apparently to be
n ore than temporary, color to which is
& ven by the fact that the German marines
are now engaged in building winter bar
racks, leave little doubt that Germany has
practically annexed kiao-Chau bay, which,
next to Port Arthur. is the most important
harbor in China As a fat accompli Is an
almost unanswerable argument in the East,
X is difficult to see what Russia, Great
Britain and Japan can do in the matter
unless they set TO work and grab other
portions of the Chinese empire.
Under the circumstances the diplomats
are asking what the United States, whose
interests in the East are advancing by
leaps and bounds, say of the seizure of
kiao Chou bay In any case, the further
proceedings promise to be interesting. for,
according TO the accepted version of the
Cassini treaty, concluded in 1886. Russia: Sc
cured the reversion of kiao Chou bay for
a naval station. Looking below the sur
face. the coup may, therefore,, be Ger
many's retort to the Franco-Russian alli-
ance.
The newspapers of Great Britain console
themselves with saying that war will be
the outcome of all this harbor grabbing"
adding: owing to our sovereignty OF the
sea, We are able to pick and choose any
port in China which strikes our fancy. If
N iG 1lFaadN Fortified h- mir YiVG1S en-