The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-10
!SULTAN'S SHIFT SHORT
EVIDENT TO EUROPE THAT THE
TURK Is IN A TIGHT
PLACE
ENGLAND is READY TO ACT

Tx the other Powers Do Not Join I'm |
Enforcing the Crete U1timatum
John BuIl Is Ready to Do the
From the Kaiser--The Cloud in
China Clearing.
LONDON, Oct. 9. - It is becoming
abundantly evident that Abdul Hamid
Is in an extremely tight place-almost
the tightest, in fact, since the war
between Turkey and Russia. Dispatches
which, to escape the censor, were sent
via Philippopolis and which have been
received in London, say that the sultan
is much perturbed over the fact that
the four powers have actually held to-
gether to the length of sending him an
uH1matum, despite all of his efforts to
sow discord. Such a sustained concert
he regards as ominous, as we'll as novel,
and he. has brooded over 1t and dis
cussed It into the small hours of the
morning.
Tewfik Pasha, his clever foreign min
lister, who hustled through the treaty
| of peace with Greece, and most of the
members of his cabinet have advised
Abdul to refuse to comply with the
four powers ultimate or, at least,
to let the troops in Crete fight before
being bundled out of the island, so that
the world may see that the Ottoman
spirit is not yet cowed They base
this advice mainly on the fact that
Germany has kept outside of this policy
OF threatening the Porte and upon the
supposed impossibility of the four pow
ers using their armed forces against
| the sultan's army without the co-opera-
| ton or the consent of the kaiser at
me ment when he will be enjoying Turk
| ish hospitality. The sultan apparently
off
| minority Of his cabinet have warned
| him, to the length of endangering their
| positions and, perhaps, at the risk Of
their heads. that England is prepared
to drive the Turkish troops out of Crete
! herself if the other powers should draw
| back at the last moment.
Sir M. r. O'Connor, the new British
| ambassador, gave the sultan practically
! the same warning at a private audi
ence last evening. A couple of hours
| later a long telegram was sent from
the palace to Berlin, wherein it is be-
lieved the sultan asked the kaiser for
! advice and promised to abide by it. 1t
seems, therefore, that the responsibility
will rest with Emperor William as to
| bloody or a peaceful evacuation Of
Crete, and that for his own comforts
sake he will give the sultan good ad-
| vice.
ALL EYES ON WILLIAM.
Europe is \eagerly and thankfully
waiting to hail the German emperor
! next week as the worlds greatest ben
efactor. He offers two months of re-
| spite from the weary wranging over
! China, Africa and domestic troubles
He will supply grand spectacular
| entertainment which will fifty succeed
the pessimistic political problems. His
| journey to Jerusalem begins at 8
| o'clock Wednesday, morning
What Europe expects from William
is the unexpected. Nobody knows
where he will bring off his sensational
coup, but he will be sure to have sue
cessfully startled the world before he
returns.
One report which obtains some credit
is that he is now upon the fulfllment
of the fixed idea Of his life, which IS
the German colonization in regions
where the climate is tolerable to Ger
| mans. He is aware that his possess
sions in East and West Africa are
hardly worth keeping. He had for a
| time the idea of creating a German
empire with the aid of the Dutch in
South Africa.
That having been abandoned, he
turned his eyes toward Southern. Bra
zil, where German colonists are pow
erful, but the dread Of fighting Amer
lea weighed heavily in Berlin. Wash
Germany with a share of the Philip
pines. She would like Samoa, and is
| even anxious to regen Crete, but
| there are insuperable obstacles every
where except in the western division
of Asiatic Turkey.
Russia consented to divide Poland,
! then why not the Ottoman empire? A
slice Of Asia Minor from the Aegean
sea to Arabia would suit Germany, yet
| leave broad and fertile provinces to
satisfy Ru: STA. There is room for TO-
| 000,0 900 Germans, and German colonies
are already Furnishing in Syria.
STATUS IN CHINA.
The Chinese situation has been clar-
flied somewhat, but it is still far from
lucid. There is no longer doubt that
a complete reaction to an extreme form
OF anti-fOreign conservatism now domi-
mates the government at Pekin. There
| is an equally strong conviction in the
| British official mind that Russian in
trigues are responsible for the situa-
ton.
The most encouraging feature is a
| vague but no less significant change in
the attitude Of Lord Salisbury. There
! has been within scarcely more than q
| week a decided accession of vigOr, not
to say aggression, in British policy in
regard to three foreign crises now
| penang, namely, crete, FdSnOQd ana
| China. In respect to the latter the
change is not so obvious, because moves
in the great far-Eastern game are most
of them secret, but the three questions
are more or less connected, so far as
| the British policy is concerned.
The outside observer may only get
| the impression that something has hap
| pened to strengthen the hands of Great
Britain and enable her to pursue a
courageous course without inviting de-
feat or threatening the peace of the
world. The natural inference is that
this something is "a better understand
| ing between Great Britain, Germany,
the United States and Japan. There is
| no official news upon which to base
this conjecture, but the impression is
so strong that 1t is the basis Of a
considerable revival of public confidence
IN Lord Salisbury among his old sup
| pcrters, who had been growing more,
and more discouraged for many months
| past.
They now look for a strong British
countermove at Pekin to offset Rus
sle's latest advantage, but it is difficult
to see how it is possible to effect q
| fresh coup d'etat that would distract
the country without producing anarchy.
which would speedily compel the pow
ers to take possession of the fiowery
| kingdom and parcel 1t among them
selves English opinion favors this par
tition more strongly each day, and the
! impression is now general that the ~