Evening journal., 1897-01-11
TRE EPARTITIONOF CHINA
,uch a Proposition Gravely Dis
cussed In Berlin.
,JgITYo OF THE DRIBBUED MENACED

AUSTRIA sends - Message to the German
Court For Conference on the Relations
OF the Two Countries The Sultan
Thanks the Emperor.
l. BERLIN, Jan. II. An extraordinary |
tory regarding the partition of China /
4 Smong the leading European powers,
Eoyhich has been grayey discussed in the /
Herman press originated In Eugen VOLTS |
5ietteis from Tien-tsin Co The Tagehlatt |
2ItIcrr Wolf has never lacked audacity as a
IN Correspondent. Upon the slender basis of a
Russo Chinese railway convention he built
ID a new version Cf the often heard Of and
Tvs often contradicted secret treaty, with
ht fgnciful superstructuTa of its results.
q ,hfra is to be dealt with like Africa. The
&sant about "spheres Of influence" is ap-
1rllied to the whole Of the celestial empire.
.,Sussia's sphere is to extend to the Yellow
BN'iver. the German sphere from the Yellow
-'ivcr to the Yangtse Kiang, the English
E Indefinitely south of the Yan.tse-kiang,
s Nind the French northward from Yunnan,
the English sphere.
III The partition was suggested rather as
B Nlhommercial than a political division, in
(which, it win be observed the American
interest was ignored. Not a shred of truth,
Mot even of probability, iustifes this ro
Nhnance The Russian ambassador at Pc
II king, Count Cassini, who is credited with
81 ,lchieving tremendous diplomatic tri-
+ 'imph by first securing the Russian sphere
4Slf influence in the north, has, according
NO St Petersburg advices, obtained moth
III ng beyond diminution of frontier dues
Mi by one-third as a concession in connection
q with the Eastern Chinese railway. 1t is
II Questionable whether this privilege can be
worked without its being granted TO all
riountries having commercial treaties with
81 .Jhina containing the most favored nation
E flause.
Austria and the Dreibund.
CONT Goluchowski, Austrian minister
~ #of foreign affairs, will arrive in Berlin on
lJan. II. The ostensible object of his com
& ng is to take part in a meeting of the
81 E5snembers of the German Order of the Red
fEaglo, of which he wears the decoration of
4he grand cross, but It is known beyond
ilhe possibility Of doubt that the real pur-
bose of his visit is to confer with the en-
-leror and Prince von Hohenlohe, the i'm
oerial chancellor, upon matters affecting
he position of Austria in the dreibund.
arhe radical changes in the artillery arm
IF the German military service which it is
s he intention Of the government to affect
the assent of the reichstag to the pro-
N oosals for that purpose can be obtained,
will force the pursuit of n similar policy in
The army of Austria-Hungary, involving
M Al estimated expenditure of at least So
n 300, 600 forms. IT, as the result of the con-
erenco of the emperor, Count Golu-
e,howski and Prince Won Hohenlohe, the
& kaiser should advise simultaneous reforms
n the armies of the powers signatory to
xhe dreibund, it will be a question as to
now far in that direction Austria will be
able to assent, while it win be a matter of
Btill greater doubt as to whether Italy will
DO able to meet the financial demands
which the reforms required will entail.
The nomination by the Russian emperor
s # NJ. Shishkin as the successor of Prince
Iobanoif in the office of Russian minister
If foreigns affairs, with Count Muravieh
IS his coadiutor occupying the position
previously filed by NJ. Shishkin, has great
y darkcnod the outlook from the dreibund
point of view. Count Muravieff was al
)ne time secretary of the Russian embassy
in Berlin, and is known to be an intense
IS partisan of France and pronounced Ger
" -manophobe
The sultan has sent Grumbkoff Pashl
to Berlin as the bearer of an autograph
letter to the emperor, expressing the thank,
of the sultan for the attitude assumed to
word him by the kaiser in preventing en-
lcroachments upon his prerogatives.
The members of the reichstag who rep
resent the sugar interests do not intend tC
,endanger what they have got by asking
for more. They will oppose any reduction
in the bounty grants or alteration in th'
arrangements for 1S96-97, and they have
majority of the reichstag with them. TIT
export of German Jaw sugar to the UniteC
States assumed el rmous proportions las
year From 6anmiry TO November las
the totals were ?, 397, 191 double Tor meter
,hundredweights, as against 473, 154 II
1895 and 675 O57 in 1894. The raw suga
exports to England during these period
has largely fallen off.