The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
ENGLAND AL WAYS
B|DES Her TINE
This is the View Taken at the
French Capitol.
SULTAN AT HIS USUAL GAME
There Has Been Another Massacre in
Turkish TerritorY-Statistics of
Crime in France-Peacs and
Arbitration Societies.
SULTAN AT HIS USUAL GAME
BY MAX o'RELL.
Especial Gable Dispatch to lhe Times,
CopyrighG, 1907

PARIS, Dec. 2o-England always
knows how to- bide her time and wall
for her chance to take her innings.
E. the Time when Venezuela
nearly succeeded in involving her in q
serious quarrel with the United States
during the second Cleveland administra-
ton, sne has been on the lookout for
an opportunity to pay out the little
South American republic.
Germany and England are not quite
one in China, but they are agreed as
to Venezuela, and there is no telling
how the trouble will end.
l do not believe that the matter Is OF
very serious import. It will, however,
teach that little State that q nation, even
a very small one, which takes liberties,
assumes responsibilities. Venezuela has
not obeyed 1.-The order Of the court and
so the baliffs have come in.
Parisians are asking each other just
now: "Why this sudden spasm Of good
feels-~ ~otwecn France and England
These proposals to put into operation
between nations the principle of arbi-
tration? This burying of the ancient
Ratchet without so much as prayer
over It's grave?'
At any other time what pangs Of jeal-
cusy Frenchmen would experience at the
sight of a fleet Of their friends. the
Cars, warships fraternizing with Eng
fish vessels at Portsmouth! But now It
seems to be in the air that Europe has
discovered herself to be homogeneous
one family united against some distant
foe Where Is that foe? Is 1t over where
the Stars and Stripes float with too
protecting flutter near Fenezuela'S
shores?
The Sultan OF Turkey. true to him
SELF has been at his little game again.
He has had his usual massacre; Russia,
Austria and Italy have once more COM
bined In urging upon him the necessl v
not only of instituting reforms, but OF
carrying them out with vigilance
which the exiGencies Of the situation de-
mand.''
He has given solemn promises, and
the Powers have accepted them as sin
cere evidences OF his repentance.
With an air Of profound contrition.
almost amounting to injured innocence,
the ineffable Father Of the Faithful has
Withdrawn into penitential privacy,
smiling and smiling. decorating and pro-
noting the authors Of the massacre,
abiding in peace. until the next oppor-
tunity for little massacre comes
round.
So 1t is. and so it will be until Eu-
rope, aroused TO action at last, follows
the advice once given by the late Glad
stone. and kicks the Turk. bag and bag
gage. into Asia: h,,t al:S +h'-
take place so long as the Powers con-
slider the Turk as Indispensable 10 l4le
equilibrium of Europe. and so long as
the Sultan believes it to be so.
The statistics OF crime in France are
not reassuring just now. F'orty-seven
Of the first degree; that is to
say. with generalization. were committed
in August, and Paris has the not env:-
able honor Of claiming almost half the
number. for fwenty-two murders were
committed within its precincts Sep
TENDER was worse; fortyeisht murders
were committed in the provinces and
twenty-five in Paris.
In October, out Of fifty-two murders
committed in France. Paris is responsible
for twenty, Altogether one hundred and
in three months. that Is to
say, two day. I am informed at the
Prefecture Of Police that this is reco, a..
Considering, however, the impulsivc
character Of the French and the gunheard
If leniency of juries. in Paris especially,
FOR the heroes OF Diames PassIonnels.a
considering also that every F'renchman
seems to carry revolver in his pocket,
do not think it is necessary to call ont
Dr. Lombroso. Mr.. Max Nordau or any
,ther celebrated criminologtst, to explain
heses sad statistics. SIS