The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-21
eERMANYS GAME OF GRAB.
OCCUPATION of KIAO CHOU APT
TO BE PERMANENT.

Great Powers of Europe Not in a
Position to Make the Kick They
would Probably Like to Indulge
In.
Copyright. 1897, by the Associated Press.
London, Nov 2O-The stock pot of in
ternational politics has been enriched dur
ing the last few days by two or three
bones which promise to furnish an oppor-
tunlty for plenty of contention hereafter.
Russia contributed the first in her notifi-
cation of Nov. 13 to the porte that the
arrears of the Russo-Turk war indemnity,
amount to f1,SOO,O0O sterling, and that if
Turkey intends to apply part of the Greek
indemnity to an increase of the Turkish
armaments, Russia will demand the pay
ment of this amount. This was followed
by second note on the same subject to-
day.
Austria furnished the second bone In her
demand for the payment of the arrears
due the Oriental Railroad Company for
Transporting Turkish troops during the
war, this company being an Austrian
concern, and the arrears amounting to
fS2O,OO0 sterling, at the same time insisting
upon the dismissal of the vail of Adana,
Asia Minor, and of the mutessarif of Mer-
slna, the port of Adana, the two officials
who were responsible for the indignities
to which an Austrian merchant named
Brazzafolli was recently subjected, and
also for their share in the insults COM
planned of by the Austrian consul at Mer-
sina, who interfered in behalf of Brazza-
folll, the agent there of the Austrian
Lloyd Steamship Company, to all of
which demands Turkey submitted. Incl
dentally, the Turkish government is also
said to have abandoned her naval plans
as a result of the second note of Russia
on the subject of war indemnity arrears
due that country.
Germany favored the contents of the
stock pot with hot sauce from China, in
the shape of the landing of her sailors
and marines at Kiao Chou, on the Shan
Tun peninsula, ostensibly for the purpose
of insisting upon redress for the murder
of two German missionaries; but, possi-
bly, it is intimated, in order to obtain
good coaling station and harbor for re-
pairing 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-
Htical pot. Her easy victories over Greece
have so rehabilitated the sultan's pride
lief that by following the advice of Capt.
Mahar, the author of "Sea Power in His
tory and making his navy strong, Tur-
key might become the seventh great pow
er and liberate herself from the obnoxious
tutellage of Christendom. Germany Of
fered her assistance to build ships for
Turkey and also offered to supply that
country with the necessary arms, am
munition and uniforms in return for about
25 per cent. of the Greek war indemnity.
Then Russia saw her chance to check the
progress of German influence at Constan-
tinpole. For the past twenty years she
has held unpaid o u as a club to force
Turkey to do her bidding, and now again.
but in more summary fashion than
usual, she has repeated the operation and
has killed two birds with one stone, name
ly, sharply checking Berlin craftsmanship
and preventing Turkey from emancipating
herself from her dependence upon Rus
sia. Naturally, this has been a bitter pill
for Germany to swallow, losing, as she
does, considerable prestige and big con-
tracts at the same moment. Great Br-
tain's part in these proceedings remains
to be developed
Germany's sweep down upon Kiao Chou
Bay China, has excited the chancelleries,
and the advices from Shanghai that two
steamers have been chartered there to
convey stores and material to Kaio Chou
Bay, coupled with the intimation that
the German occupation of that place is
apparently to be more than temporary,
color to which is given by the fact that
the German marines are now engaged
in building winter barracks, leave little
doubt that Germany has practically an
neEed Kaio Chou Bay, which, next to
Port Arthur, Is the most important harbor
in China. AS fait accompl is an almost
unanswerable argument in the east, it is
difficult to see what France, Russia,
Great Britain and Japan can do in the
A1,.ox Fnply md CrrD h
other portions of the Chinese empire. I'm
der these circumstances, the diplomats
are asking what the United States whose
interests in the east are advancing by
leaps and bounds, says of the seizure of
Kiao Chou Bay.
The British parliament assemblies dur
ing the second week of February, three
weeks later than originally intended. The
principal tasks of the session Will be the
Irish local government bill and the re-
form of the London county council, re-
ferred to by the Marquis of Salisbury in
his speech on Tuesday last before the
National Union of Conservative Associa-
tons, when the premier asked his hear
ers If they wanted to be governed like
New York city The parliament will be
called upon to legislate for the army, the
question of increasing its strength appeal
ing most urgently to the country general
ly. There is a widespread demand that
the other questions be shelved and that
the session be devoted to the army. 1t
Is a notorious scandal that millions OF
pounds sterling are wasted annually out
OF the enormous total of Ell 000,0 900 sterling
expended on the army. AS result, the
country has entirely lost confidence in the
war office, and there is a universal cry
that the cabinet take the matter in it's
own hands and introduce workman-like
Dill embodyng a definite and consistent
policy
The Marquis of sallsbury's proposition
TO smash" the London county council,
as already referred to, has raised storm
throughout the land, and the British pre-
mier Is now. even a worse 'slanged" man
than Richard Croker of New York during
tne recent municipal election in that city.
The news from India is about as dlscour-
aging as 1t can be. The sudden recrudes-
eence Of activity on the part of the tribes
men when it was thought that the affair
was about finished, shows that whatever
me British officials may think the natives
OF the invaded country are not aware that
'hey are beaten The cost of the military
operations is already estimated at f2.5O0,OOO