Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-25

to your faith, or do you dsown II? Are
you OF Islam. or are you TO be counted
These are doubtless the questions which
the sultan's admirers are burning to have
answered by the Cairo cabinet and It must
be Acknowledged that they cannot be light
~ answered. For Egypt to declare I'M
equfvocally in favor of her suzerain Is TO
expose herself to the rejoinder that there
can be no condfct over identical interests:
that Sinai Is neither Egyptian nor Turkish.
pire.
But Egypt Ia not wanting In astute
statesmen and they may be trusted to find
the prudent middle course and satisfy the
sublime porte of Egypt's loyalty, while
maintaining her territorial rights and abid-
ing faithfully by her compact with Great
Britain. But the impression is gaining
ground that the sultan has no intention
Whatever OF defining any line OF demarca-
ton between Syria and Egypt, and IL il
stated that he 10 resolutely opposed to the
IDEA OF Egypt establishing military ports
IN any part of the Sinai peninsula"
NJ. Mausuy has asked when will the
Kaiser undertake a visit to the khedive?
The letter cited above announces the pres
ence OF the sultan's ENJOYS I'm Cairo. 1t is
certain that the sultan has no. undertaken
70 send them except at the suggestion of
the German emperor!
Recurring to the Slavs NJ Mausuy refers
TO the ambitions of William III to have his
second son reign in Hun
AooAAne gary, and the writer finds Il
Forward. interesting at this point to
quote from his article in The
Star of June IS. 1906, entitled: THE
Austro- Hungarian Crisis"
In September, 1897. Emperor William de-
HVered speech In Budapest, dithyramblc
paeon of the Hungarian people. The, second
son OF Emperor William speaks Magyar
Huently and is named Eitel, that Is to say,
Altfa. the precursor of Arpad. the hero of
would appear that the Emperor william
not only has designs upon Morocco. but
also upon the country of the Magyars."
Useless indeed, to deny that If such an
event should happen 1t would be the anai
blow to the aspiration of all the peoples of
the Balkans. crushed between Germany
and the Sultan of Constantinople As for
a IL 1t would be the end of all aspirations
OF extension to the east. Finished the
creams of Italia irredentar Trieste,
Fiume. cities whose Italian populations
would become forever German cities Dead
also and buried without hope Of resurrec-
ton italian projects on the other side of
the Adriatic! Between Italy and her future
Greater Germany would erect an insuper-
able barrier of soldiers, commercial inter-
ests and immigrant colors France and
England attacked by Germany. and by
Islam In her African possessions, would see
powerful German fleets plough the Mediter-
Tahean' and perhaps dominate 1t. Modern
Rome. slow in her conuuests imnJaeab Ia Il,
her wars. methodical in her plans OF doml-
nation and assimilation of the conquered
would thus see her fortune assured The
period predicted by Momsen will have come
and her aggressive and patient miIitarism
VIII weigh heavily upon Europe. a prey TO
rear The high mission of Germany is to
Germanize Europe. and to accomplish this
END the humiliation of France is first
necessary, and when this Is ACCOMPLISHED
England and Italy IN turn will share the
same Iate. And then, as in the theaters of
ancient Rome. Germany may announce the
END OF the play: Acta est fabula-the piece
Is finished.
But Europe has not yet been Germanized.
and the dream of the kaiser will not he
Teaized The recent speech of M. Edouard
LocKroy former minister of the marine in
the FRENCH chamber Of deputies on the
subject of the French navy CONVEYS a les
son not only to France, but it NAV be
utilized by the United States and every
otner country, let they forget the impia-
cable maxim: 81 Wis pacem para belIru-
II you wish for peace. be prepared for war.
NJ Lockroy alluded to the period when
the french navy was diSorganiZed by NJ
camille Pelletan. who was unfortunately
given a portfolio In a former ministry M
lSOckroy told the chamber how shamefutv
the minister of marine had neglected tho
interests or France whilst every nation was
preparing for active naval operations.
AT the present moment said the eIo
quent speaker. THE German navy is near
iy equal to the French In,
"aSai 1919 Germany will have thir-
strength. ty-eight armored vessels. the
oldest Of which, one only
VIII have twenty years; France will bayo
thlrty-four, of which, some will have twep-
ty-rour and twenty-five years That effort
u germany, who has no colonies whilst
france mas very important ones, renders
sun more precious the Anglo French en-
Iente TO which the recent voyage of Edward
VII TO France has given a new and Cleo
conservation In what concerns France she
has no time to lose neither to be left In fbe
iuTcn py more active rivals, nor to be con-
sidered unworthy of being sought for her
friendship. II Is necessary that France re-
main very important element In interna-
tonal combinations IL she does not wish tn
pay the cost OF future reconciliations"
M. Lockroy recalled in magistraI pero-
ration, which the chamber acclaimed with
enthusiasm, what 1t had cost Russia to be
hypnotized by the illusions OF the confer
ence at The Hague. She had better and
more efficaciously assured peace if she had
had in the Chan Tung the number of SOL
diers necessary and IL she had assembled In
the basin of Port Arthur the considerable
feet which her policy of expansion should
have suggested.
1T is necessary" said M Lockroy, ito
maintain France in the rank of a mari
Cim6 power, Dut we cannot unfortunately
augment indefinitely the expense of our war
feet. But nevertheless II we compare our
maritime expenses with those Of neighbor-
ing nations we may see that France Is the
power which has made the least efforts for
its marine
This year the effort has been more con-
siderable, but I fear that the effort Is not
sufficient If Russia has lost her Asiatic
power 1t is because she did not prepare
for war
cit is necessary to have q feet to defend
our colonies That Is to say, all the little
places of France. Do not let our naval
power fail We have to sustain republican
France In a monarchical continent.
'"The more our social reforms are de-
veloped the more the duty to defend our
country and to assure by every means the
integrity Of our territory and our liberty"
The chamber applauded vigorously the
speech of M Lockroy. M. Thompson. the ae-
tual minister of marine. declared that the
government was placing six battleships of
1900 tons on the ways, and they would be
heavily armed: that the grand naval ma
neuvers were to be undertaken and every