Arizona republican., 1899-09-27
FOREIGN NOTES
 AND COMMENT

l EnSIanu s future King Is III SeIIOuS trouble with all that important mo:ety
 of his future subjects who are averse to Roman Catholicism because, dur ing his stay at Ma1ienbad, he failed to
 attend any of thaf services in the AR glican chapel, either on Sundays cr Saints days, but found time to be
 present at three masses in the Roman
 Catholic church, one of the celsbra- tons being in honor of the birthday of
 Empercr Francis Joseph. Ills avoid
 ance of the Anglican church at Mari
 entsd has naturally served to revive
 all the old stories of the so-called pap ist leaniEgs of Queen Victoria and If
 her eldest son.
 l Scarcely 8 year passes without both
 the queen and the prince coming in for
 abuse on the part of the Protestant
 church press in England in connectdcn
 with the alleged sympathies which they display for Jht Roman Catholic church. This abuse will be under
 s5cod when it is mentioned that the old time religious intolerance dating from the epoch of the Reformation is still sufficiently strong in England to have
 prevented the government f.om get
 ting through parliament, during the session which has just cGme to a close.
 the bill for the removal Of a number
 of civic and legal disabilities to wh:al ! Roman Catholics are still subject in England Among thesa but little known disabilities is the prohibition
 of Roman Catholic citizens to bequeata property to any church or religious or ders, and only few months ago a b. quest to the Adam and Eve Roman Catholic church. il Dublin. was an
 nuled by the courts as being contrary to law.
 Empe1cr William having become
 completely reconciled to his sister, the
 crown princess of Greece. and to her
 husband. the crown prince, has taken
 advantage Of their recent stay with
 him at Potsdam to impart to his broth
 er-in-law some very excellent advice
 as to the best way Of beating the
 Turks iri Greece's G3Xt war with the
 Sublime Porte. Barely three years
 have elapsed since the kaiser was
 openly helping his fIiend, the sultan.
 to invade and crush Greece, whose army was commanded by his brother in-law. Crown Prince Constantine, The
 operations of the Ottoman army were to great extent directed by Prus5ian
 officers lent to the sultan fer the pur- p-se, and who were subsequently, dee orated by Germany fer their services in Ptfe matter. while all .Ee war ma terial needed was supplied from Ger many without any interference on the part of the kaiser, who decELed, how eveu, on the score of neutrality to per init Greece to obtain any guns or am munition from Germany
 Yet today we find the kaiser actual ly advising the crown prince of Greece and the commander-in-ckfef of his army how to d5feat the Turks. The advice given by the emperor to his brother-in-law was in no sense of the word secret or confidential It was contained during the course Of an after dinner speech at the close Of review, at which the crown rrince had been the guest of honor, and as such has been published almost verbatim Ln n | number Of the German papers.
 A very strong point that the em- pericr made was that Greece should de- ! vote more attention to her navy than | to her army Owing to her size, he | declared that Greece could never b5- | come a great military power or be ln | d position to cope single handed c21 iand with any of the great military powers, such as fer instance, Turkey. i which could always obtain viotory by | sheer force o' numbers. "G.eece's he added, "can never be used for purposes Of invasion. It must al ways remain on the defensive, and it is therein that will lie it's strength. Your activity in that dii eCiion should therefore be devoted to fortify ing the strategic points of your fton- tier, bearing in mind always the abs lute necessity of your army remaining on the defensive. At sea. however, your policy should be dlametrically different. + should be offensive in every sense Of the word A maritime state, such as yours is, should have a strong fleet and good harbors. If you had good f1set you could not only destroy that rf Turkey, but likewise ravage her coasts and even lombard and possibly capture CCnstantinople. No great power will find it worth Its nile tc ally itself with Greece on land for the sake of an assistance which the Greek army might or might not be able to render But the coop eration Of well equipped Greek feet and the uss of properly defended Greek naval ansenals and docks would be Of inestima ble value to any Of the great powers in the event 3f a big European war"
 The Lcndon Chronicle made a silly mistake in declaring in one of it's r5- cent issues that readers Of Thackeray, and, above all admirers Of Becky Sharp" will regret the transformation If HertfoTd house. which has just been cpensd to the public as a national mu- scum. Becky Shacp'' has nothing to do with this Hertford house, for the former London mansion 1f the marquises of Hertf0rd. the house. in fact which figured in Thack- eray's novels as the residence of the marquis of Steyne, was situated in Park Lane. on the site Of what is now known as Dorchester house, quite q distance off from the new museum. now known as HeItfOrd house, and which is filled with the well nigh priceless art treasures Of the fourth rc1IiS of IIa1-..fnrd and. caf thn Iatn Gi1.