Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-02
HEIRS TO THRONE
ARE UNDER GUARD
Sultan of Turkey May Not Very
Long Survive.
HIS DEATH NOT DISCUSSED
All Conversation Concerning His Ill
ness Police Forbid.
GERMANY IS ON ANXIOUS SEAT
Southern Morocco Threatened With
Rebellion and Complications May
Arise With Death of Ruler.


may die at any moment, and
his heirs are under police guard.
Meantime the great nations, more
especially Germany, are watching
the situation with the deepest in
terest. A brother of the sultan
heads the movement that threatens
a rebellion in southrn Morocco.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
LONDON, September 1.-The health Of
the Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, Is SO
precarious that 1t is believed he cannot long
survive Several slight operations have
been performed on him, but he Is not
amenable to treatment, and little can be
done for him,
Sensational rumors have been current in
Constantinople, and to their increase the
action of the police largely contributes
All conversation concerning the illness Of
the sultan is forbidden. and the personal
guard of the two next heirs to the throne
the brother and nephew of Abdul Hamid
has been strengthened by order Of the police
authorities. Two French specialists are ex-
pected shortly.
in all the capitals of Europe as to what will
happen after the death of the sultan. Ger
many is believed to be steadily tightening
her hold in the Moslem empire. and is also
popularity supposed to be stirring up strife
in Morocco and Egypt under cover.
Germany and the Turks.
While counseling reserve on the treating Of
these mattersr <the Berlinerr rNsaeste Mach
ri..A Iaf cfv ~ q
time the relations of Turkey and Egypt
have become for Germany a matter of
greater Importance. Germany's interests
are Increasing in the near east and it has
become of the leading points of Ger
man policy in the orient that the SOW
eregRty of the sultan shall not be i'm
pugned.
These and similar comments are highly
provocative to the British.
Hardly day passes without the ap-
pearance of an elaborate article on Egypt
ian affairs in some German magazine or
newspaper believed to speak with more or
less authority on questions of international
and foreign policy. Judging by the some
what uniform trend of these articles it is
safe to suppose that there is method in
the minds of those who inspire them and
that their appearance at the present time
mas some definite object In view.
The Schlesische Zeitung, journal of
high reputation and believed to be in close
touch with official circles, says that efforts
are about to be made by England to admit
those special privileges which the European
powers ENJOY in the capitulations. Ger
many, II is remarked, will do well in the
course of the negotiations which must nee
essarily precede any changes in the judicial
system of Egypt to insist on measures for
protecting her industries there, which at
present labor against the keenest compe-
tition. Germany assented to the arrange
ment of 1904 between France and England
as Tar as Egypt was concerned, because it
secured most favored nation treatment
for thirty years
A Diplomatic Triumph.
This was regarded in Germany at the
time us a diplomatic triumph, because it
secured for Germany exactly the same
treatment France, but German states
men forgot at the time that for these con-
cessions France was compensated else
where. whereas Germany received no COM
pensation. at any rate none which has yet
been made public. The Schlesische Zeitung
hopes that in the negotiations regarding
the further regulation of Egyptian affairs,
which must sooner or later take place Ger
man diplomacy will remember the interest
which German trade has in maintaining the
open door, and will press this point more
than was done two years ago
Morocco Threatened.
At the present moment southern Morocco
Is threatened with a rebellion compared
with whfch that Of the tinsel pretender in
the north sinks into insignificance. Moulai
Add ul Hafid heads the movement. He is
an elder son of the late sultan and half
brother of the reigning. but not ruling. mon
arch. He stands at the head of by far the
most powerful military force in Morocco.
In Egypt Muskpha Kamel Is carrying on
a strong anti-British campaign, and his
affiliations with Baron Oppenheim the zeal
Gus PAN German, cause much comment. In
Cairo Germany has remarkably we'll
organized Mussulinan bureau. Germany is
apparently fostering Mussulman ambitions.
but really furthering her own projects,
which aim at control of all the territory
from the North sea to the Euphrates