The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-22
GERMANY SORE ON GREECE.
HOLDS TOO MANY DEFAULTED
BONDS TO FEEL KINDLY.

I
to Her Dispute in BOth-Govcrn-
ment Circles Look with DisFavor
ON the Proposed Annexation of
! Crete to Greece-Peace i'm the BRIIS-
ans Considered Assured-POlItics
in Austria.
Berlin. Feb. 21.-The German Kaiserin
Augusta, the only German warship which
Is to take part in the blockade of or naval
! demonstration in the Piraeus, IL such ac-
| tion should be decided upon, was at NAL
ia on Thursday. and there received orders
to proceed to Canea and await further in
| structions. The latest phase of the Gre
1 tan position confirms the view taken by
German official authorities, that the
acuteness of the crisis which prevailed
| last week is rapidly abatlng
| Advices from Vienna say that Count
| GoluchowslI, the Austrian minister of
| foreign affairs, held a conference yester-
day with the British and Russian ambas-
sadors to Austria, and as a result of the
| interview the minister was able to COM
municate to Emperor Francis Joseph
such re-assuring news as justified the
emperor in making preparations to start
! for Cape Martin on Monday for a season
of recreation. The situation now inspires
no immediate disquietude. Greece had
submitted or at least will submit to the
behests of the united powers, and the out
| look for a complete cessation of hostili-
| ties is extremely promising.
Whatever may he the ultimate result
of the kaiser's sudden Intervention to pre-
vent further aggressive action, the best
German opinion credits his majesty with
having averted the gravest danger both
to Greece and to Europe.
The policy of the kaiser has in some
quarters been misconstrued as merely fol-
lowing the lead of Russia and Indifferent
to the claims of the Cretans or their
Greek kinsfolk. But the most reasonable
and least biased view of Berlin diplomacy
is that throughout this Cretan trouble, 1t
has aimed at dealing with Crete as an inte-
gral part of the whole eastern question
without pdejudice to the ultimate claims
of Greece and Crete to have their mutual
aspirations satisfied. The sutan's conf
dence in the kaisers oft-repeated deter
mnation to maintain the territorial rights
| of the porte has at this grave juncture
| given the representations made, perhaps,
| greater weight than even the concerted
| representations of the ambassadors. AT
| Athens, also, direct German diplomacy
and the kaiser's personal influence have
| been at work to prevent such widespread
| outbreak of hosCilties as would lead to a
| general confagratlon in the Balkan pen
Outside of official circles, where the
whole matter is that of concentrated in
| terest in getting Greece to obey the great
powers, the public feeling in Germany
tends toward sympathy with the Greco
| Cretan movement 1t must be said, how
| ever, that there is no especially strong
| sentiment In favor OF the Greeks. Their
| national character Is too well known and
has been financially too unfavorably felt
in Germany. Bankrupt In finance and al
hat1 4 1rrt1fat In lrf1A
| regardless also of her disrepute as to
| both, Greece has lost the SAVIOR of tradi-
ton whieh fo maze p1ac s rer a1 eaty W
| smelling Greece that now grabs at the
first tid-bit to be distributed when the
| general scramble for Turkey becomes in
| evitabe. To the German people, as TO
| its government, not sentiment toward
| Greece, but considerations for the peace
| of Europe come first.
Germany now holds nominally 360000,00O
| marks of Green loans, upon which the
interest has not been paid and possession
| of Crete would burden Greece still more.
The Russian military attache at Con-
| stantinople, Col Peachkof, who was ap-
pointed member of the commission to
| reorganize the Cretan gendarmie, reports
that while in Crete in the performance of
| his mission, he became convinced that the
| Cretans did not wish to be transferred
from Turkish to a Greek regime, but
would greatly prefer a good home ad-
ministration. In conclusion, Col. Peach
| kof says that should Greece obtain pos
session of Crete, the island would be-
come an intolerable burden to her.
The developments Of the Austrian elec-
| tions almost divide interest In Germany
| with the eastern crisis. The submerging
| of the German liberals, the growth OF
the new Czech and ant-Semite elements,
and the obvious strength of the clerical
party are all factions which are felt as
| destined TO have influence upon German
affairs, internal and external. Since DR..
| Rieger, the old Czech leader, advised his
| party at their meeting on the 18th instant
to coalesce with the young Czechs In the
| electoral struggle against the Germans,
socialists and anti-semites, the coalition
has bene partly effected. In other sec
tions, candidates of the young section op-
pose candidates of the old. a fair fore
cast gives some forty seats in the new
| Reichsrath to the young Czechs, and ten
to the old. The combined factions will
! demand the official use of their language
| by the administrative and ju-
dicial authorities in Bohemia, Moravia
Of the emperor as King of Bohemia, on
| the coming commemoration of the Goth
| anniversary Of his ascent to the throne.
! This coronation question, long agitated in
| Bohemia, is believed to be settled, Count
| Badeni having recommended and the ern.
| peror assent to II to satisfy the Bohe-
| mlans. The anti-Semte leader, DR.. Luz
| ger, is apparently now in vigorous health.
| and has actually been seen at two aris-
| tocratic balls in Vienna. At one of these
| the ball at the town hall, which marks the
| closing Of the carnival season, the empe-
| ror made short stay. He made a sort
| of state progress through the Gothic hall
| and apartments, accompanied by a num-
Der OF court notables the papal nuncio
| and some church dignltaries. The Jews
| were, or course. conspicuous by their alb
| sence. Anti-Semites and socialists are
| nightly brawling at their meetings in VII
emma and other populous centers. The
| police only intervene when bloodshed oc-
| ours.
| The strange figure III socio-religioug poll
| itics, the Able Stojalewski, against whom
some twenty sentences for breach of pub
| lie order, the press laws, or something
| else, have been recorded has raised fer
ment among the Polish peasants In Ca
| licia, which menaces the old privileges OF
| priests and landlords TO control their
votes. Stojalewslti, who has his headquar-
! ters at CzaCza, near the Galician frontier
| has organized a wide agitation among the
| peasants against the mobiles. priests and
| jews His Christian socialism has a
| much more pronounced leaning towards
| the socialism Of Karl Marx than anything
| OF the same name seen In Germany IL has
| az least a hold for the time being on a
| large section OF Galican peasants
| The Tagliche Rundschau, which is sup
| posed TO have relations with Baron Mar
/ scbal Won Bieberstein, minister of foreign
| nffairs makes the rather sensational de-
i mand that the editors of the socialist Vor-
waerts. Herren Bebel. Auer. Fischer and
| others, be subDoenaed in the coming
| Tausch case In order that they may dis