The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-11-21
CHECKS TO GERMANY.
Real Neaniaa q the Notes Sent
the Porte.
RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA cO.opERA7ED
Williams Game Mas to Get . Hold
on the Turk.
THE SEIZURE or kHIO- cHAU
Russin. Britain and France May
Grab Other Parts OF the Flow
cry Kingdom.
rHE SEIZURE OF knI0-cnAU

1897, by the Associated Press.)-The Stock
pot Of international politics has been en-
riched during the last few days by plenty
of contentions. Russia contributed the first
in her notification ON November 10 to tho
porte that the arrears Of the Russo Turk
ish war Indemnity amount to G1,300.000
ga ,oO0) and that il Turkey intends to
apply part of the Greek war indemnity to
increase the Turkish arinaments Russia
will demand the payment of this amount.
This was followed by second note on
the same subject today.
Austria furnished the second bone In
her demand for the payment Of the ar
rears duo to Oriental Railway company for
transporting Turkish troops during tho
war, this company being an Austrian con-
Germ and the arrears amount to GS20.00o.
at the game time insisting upon the dis
missal OF the vail of Adana. Asia Minor,
and Of the mutssemarieff of Mcrsina tho
port Of Adana, the two officials who were
responsible for the indlgnities to which an
Austrian merchant. Bragzifolli, was re-
Gently subjected and also for their share
In the insults complained of by the Aus
trian consul at Mersina, who interfered in
behalf OF Brazzifolli. the agent there OF the
Austrian Lloyd Steamship company. To
these demands Turkey submitted
Incidentally. the Turkish government Is
also said to have abandoned her naval re-
organization plans as a result of the second
note of Russia on the subject of war in
demnity due that country.
Germany favored the ccntents OF the
stockpot with hot sauce from China In the
shape OF the landing of her sailors and
marines at Kiao Chau. on the Shan Tun
promcntory, ostensibly for the purpose OF
insisting upon redress for the murder oil
two German missionaries; but, possibly, II
Is intimated, In order to obtain o good
coaling station and harbor for repairing
her feet in the far East.
Turkeys bad case Of swel1cd head Is
responsible for the addition Of two OF these
contentious to the simmerlng OF the pc
liticaa plot. Her easy victories over Greece
have so rehabiltated the sultan's pride
that he had almost arrived at the BELLE
that. following the advice Of Captain Ma
han, the author OF Sea Power in History.
and making his navy strong, that Turke,
might become the seventh great power anS
liberate herself from the obnoxious tuts
lage of Christendom.
Germany proffered her assistance to buiit
ships for Turkey and also offered to sup
MY that country with the necessary arms
ammunition and uniforms in return 10
about 25 per cent OF the Greek war IN
| demniiy.
| Then Russia saw her chance to check Tn
| nrogress OF German influence at CONSTANT
| nople. For the past twenty years she ma
| hsld her unpaid /. O. U. as club to torc
Turkey TO do her bidding and now again
hut In a more summary fashion than usua
| she has repeated the operation ana ma
killed two birds with one stone, namely
| sharply checking Berlin statesmhnship an
preyeuting Turkey from emaitipating her
SELF from her dependence upon Russia
| Naturally this has been bittc- pill 10
| Germany to swallow, losing, as she does
considerable prestige ana big contracts q
| the same moment.
Count Goluchnwski the Austrian Hun
| oarian minister for foreign uHairs' wa
Glad of the chance to cooperate with Kus
Sin in clipping the sultan's wings. ana +
has not only helped TO replace Turkey
! the same POSITION OF tolerance In EuroI
that she occupied previous 10 the war VII
1 Greece. but the Austrian minister
thrown some light upon what might
expected from the Balkan COMPACT. betWoe
| Rnesia and Austria. as limited AT by bnl
pe,ror Francis Joseph in his speech on "
...casicn of receiving the Austro- Hungaria
| delegates on last Wednesday.
1 Great Britain's part in these proceeding
re mains to be deyeloDed.
Germanys swoop down on kiao Chhu %
has excited the chancellcries and the "a
4 vices firm Shanghai that two steamer
/ have been chartered to convey stores 40
materials In Kiao Chau bay. coupled VII
The intimatlon that the German occupasio
of that place Is apparently 10 ne hEi
temporary than prolonged, denial 10 whic
4 is given by the fact that the German ni
lrines are now engarsd in building sin''
harrpcks. leave little doubt thar GERMAN
has annexed Kiao Chau bay. which, Ee'
TO Port Arthur. Is the m-st impoTtint 70
In China
AS a fait accompi. an almost unanswe'
ahle argument In tie East. IL Is dlfhtuit
sea what France, Russia. Great Britain al
Iapan can do in the mntter unless u,
sci 10 work and grab other parts OF u
Chinsee empire.
In any case. the further proceedin'