Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-09
MOHAMMEDANS ARE
THREATENING BRITISH
That Is View Alfred Stead Takes Of
II After a Tour OF South
eastern Europe.

London, Aug. 2O.--Alfred Stead. who
has just returned to London after a
considerable sojourn in southeastern
Europe, Is convinced that the great
est and most urgent problem confront.
ing the British empire at present Is
The MOhammedan problem.
I'VE vitality need definite policy
at Constantinople," said Mr.. Stead to
the correspondent of The Chicago
Daily News. "At present we neither
coerce nor conciliate the sultan. hence
get very little at his hands but con.
tempt. We blum, but he knows II Is
| bluff and does nothing Clearly we
should decide either that we are go.
ing to use our wapships to enforce
our demands or that We will make
friends with the sultan and achieve
our ends in this way.
Germany is supposed to be in a
weak position in face OF the getting
together of the Christian world
against the kaiser. But this view
leaves out of sight the great fact that
the kaiser is ace high at Constants.
nOple and hence can make lot more
trouble for any OF the other powers
than they would ever wish to meet.
He can use the sultan to set In molten
some 100000 MohammeGana in var.
ious quarters of the earth. and Russia,
France and England do not want any.
thing of this sort 10 happen,
Inspired in Constantinople.
ALREADY the Mohammedans are see.
thing, all on account OF systematic
stimulation from Constantinuple. We
are scared to death over the Sudan
don't know at what moment move.
mcnt will arise there that will sweep
us out Of the Sudan and ont of Egypt.
The fact IL we bit off much more
than we could chew when we went up
the Nile. We ought to have been con
tent with sway over the spiritlcss
people about the mouth of the Nile
but the view prevailed that we must
command the sources of the river In
order to be safe.
1--WE now see that we cannot com
mand the sources of the river. All
about there are the free and wild and
warlike Bedouins. How many there
are of them nobody knows. They
stretch right away into central Africa
Our highest officials In the Sudan al
this moment are in state of alarm
They know that trouble is brewing
and they do not know how soon II will
he upon them. They have sent repre-
sentatives to London to talk over tho
situation with the imperial defense
committee, and this committee fully
realizes the extent and acuteness O
the menace. Besides, we are faced by
the most serious unrest among The
Mohammedans in India Cpce ",
lose control of them--for we manage
the Hindoos only through them--oul
empire in India is lost.
"Thc Mohammedan problem Is onl!
n little less serious for France. She
has a big Mohammedan population oT
her hands and 1t is constant menace
to her. At any time the sultan car
start trouble for France. At any tlnly
also he can start trouble for Russia
by menacing the Caucasian frontier
To menace this frontier inyaiiably
creates a panic in 81. Petersburg.
Should Send Ambassador.
MY idea is that We ought to have 9
good understanding with the, sultan
We ought to recognize and hallmarR
him az the head OF the Mohammedar
world by sending an ambassador tc
him as the commander of the faithful
as well as an ambassador to repre-
sent us politically In Constantinoplc.'
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