The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-13

not be content with Spanish methods Of
governing. We should refuse to pay black
mail, and the enforcement of an efficient
government keeping the peace among the
various factions, queling intrigues among
the natives, friars and foreigners collect
ing taxes and defending ourselves against
foreigner aggressions. seems a superhuman
task
If the Marquis OF Salisbury's speech made
clear any fact, it was that Great Britain
does not intend to diminish her armaments,
regardless of the Cars proposals in that
direction. The energetic prosecution of the
work of putting the British navy on war
footing, after the Fashoda incident is closed
inspires speculation, some constituting it as
foreboding war over the Philippine islands
and others linking it with the Chinese prob
lem and the presence OF 1900 Russians at
Port Arthur. who might, conceivably be
marched to Peking for the protection OF
Russian interests. Others. however, conclude
that the British Admiralty is utilizing the
opportunity for maneuvers for which Parlia-
ment, under Gained conditions, would not
authorize the expenditures. Frances view
of the British armaments may be conjec-
tured from the persistency with which she
plays Toulon against Portsmouth.
The Fashoda incident has unquestionably
left bitter taste in French mouths, which
the condescendingly soothing tone of the
English papers. which have been express
ing themselves as If dealing with fractions
children, has only served to intensity The
French statesmen and the newspapers of
France frankly bewail the whole affair and
say the nation has suffered a great humilia-
ton. They also hint vaguely at a future
revenge. M. Robert de Caix, of the African
committee, urges his countrymen not to
sulk, but to initiate Great Britain's behav-
ior under a similar rebuff in the Venezuelan
affair. He adds that France has given the
world in the exhibition of 1900 the strongest
hostage that she will not be overhasty in
accepting war in the near future.
THE DREYFUS CASE.
Though a majority of Englishmen be-
Iieve that only the overshadowing interest
of the Dreyfus case saved the government
of France from being forced by popular
clamor to maintain Major Marchand at any
cost, the Court of Cessation, which has
the revision OF the case in hand, is preserv-
ing the most dense secrecy. But the in
terrogations of NJ. Cavaignac and Generals
Mercier and Billot. consuming the entire
week, Indicate that the court is doing much
more than making a superficial review of
the evidence In the meantime the many
sided controversy RACES in the Paris papers
as hotly as ever and the French minister
of foreign affairs. NJ. Delcasse, has felt
that proprieties compelled him to convey
to the German ambassador, Count Won
MISUNDERSTANDING, the governments re-
gret at the fact that one sheet dragged his
daughters name into the discussion.
One of the multitude of rumors afloat
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request the appearance before it of Colonel
Schwarzkoppen and Colonel Hanizzardi, re-
spectively the German and italian military
attaches, who have been accused of dealing
with Dreyfus, and another report has it that
the prisoner, beyond any doubt, has been
brought back to Paris to confront the off,
GERS who claim to have received his con-
fession. On the other hand, for reasons
which are incomprehensible to foreigners,
large faction of the public have been led
to shift their suspicious as to the real cul-
prit from the shoulders of Count Esterhazy
to the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who
is supposed to have committed suicide in
prison.
The newspaper men who have been ac-
companying Emperor William on his tour of
the Holy Land, say that between that
monarch's marvellous activity and the at
tentions of the Turkish officials, who re-
garded the scribes as suspicious characters,
they have been suffering veritable martyr
dom. One of them writes that he has been
accustomed to follow hounds afoot and has
shared the fortunes of the American army
in Cuba, but, he adds, these were mere
pastimes in comparison to following En-
peror William. The latter it appears, COW
cred the sand road from Haifa to Jaffa in
two days, a dash seldom attempted in less
than three days. Dead horses strewed the
trail and exhausted cavalrymen and camels
struggled into Jaffa throughout the night.
Some of the correspondents who were in
vited to witness the Emperor's entrance
into Haifa from the yard of the American
consulate were driven off by the Turks in
spite Of the protest of the consul, and the
correspondent of an Italian paper, who
wrote that the Sultan was bankrupting his
country to entertain the Emperor, while he
never paid his soldiers, was cast into prison
without any charge being. made against him,
and was beaten and starved. He succeeded,
however, in escaping by bribing some of the
Turks, and now the Italian government has
demanded a heavy indemnity for the corre-
spondents arrest and i'll treatment.
M. Patenotre, the former French ambas-
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verson, of Philadelphia, and who was aft
erwards minister OF France at Madrid, has
been transferred to Constantinople. The
French newspapers report him as attending
the conferences of the Spanish commission
eTs at Paris.
Mr.. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, the United
States ambassador to Russia, who has been
spending a fortnight in London, will pass
the remainder of his leave of absence in
the south of France. He will return to St.
Petersburg in December
One of the most notable pictures promised
at the next Academy exhibitions is a por-
trait of Lord Chief Justice Russell, in his
robes of office, on which John Singer Sar-
gent the American artist is working
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