The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-06-10
PERSIA CAUSES
EUROPE TOFACE
A NEW DISPUTE
GERMANY RESENTS THE AT
TAX OF EUROPE TO
CENTRAL COUNTRY.
During Pending of Conference tbs
Demand Of Emperor Is Not to Be
Rapidly.

Berlin, June 9.-~t'nless all indiea-
tions fail Europe will very shortly
be face to face with another internal
tional political situation of the same
grave character as the Moroccan
crisis of 1867. The appie of dis
cord is Persia and the stormy petrol
in Germany.
1t became known this weeke that
the Kaisers ambassador at London,
Count Wolf -Meetternich zur GraCht
had been instructed to register a
most vigorous protest to the British
foreign office against the Angl0-Rus-
sion attempt to monopOliZe the econ
omic and financial opportunities Of
Persia Count Pourtales, the German
ambassador at st. Petersburg, has
been directed to make similar repre-
seutations to the Russian govern
ment.
Germany has come to the sudden
conclusion that the scheme for tae
division Of Persia into British AMI
Russl,n spheres of influence does
not safeguard the eprinciples of the
ope4 or as vigorously as the An
elo- Russian convention OF 1907 pur-
upOrts to do.
Geremany to Strike.
Fearing that thee door may be
slammed in the face of German OPP
portlnity, in the Shahs domain, the
Kaiser's government has decided 10
strike automatically for the asssr-
ton Of what are held to be the fath-
erland's endangered rights,
In Berlin officials qaurters it ise in
eistede with the uual vehemence that
the epourparler undertaken with Lon
don and St. Petersburg are OF the
most amicatle and informal charac-
ter and cannot lead to serious con54-
quenres. Thi-. EJWe}per, Is YER
sion Of the German protest, which
is far from the real truth. Ge:manV
has decided as matter f fact, tnat
the moment is Opportuna for insuring
for herself much wider privileges
in Persia than ENGLAND and Russia
have hitherto been willing to con-
cede. --.,~' -.
Just what Germany demands is MT
yet clear. The representative Of tie
Deutchebank who has beene investi-
eating the commercial and financial
opportunities Of Persia is now
rodte to Berlin from Teheran, AMI
the exact character # the German
plans and ambitions will not be dis
clesed u0'u he nas made ehis report.
The German government recollecte
ing tn manner in which Germany
and Austria-Hungary eneforced their
will uHon the Anglo -Russian-French
triple entente in the Balkan chisis
has apparntly determined to play
similar card in Persia.
German dinlomatics stragists fig-
urp that the domestic political crisis
in England, as well as the situation
crrsa1nant u.on the death of King
Edward. makes it Impossible FIR
Great Britain on this occasion to as
sert herself as f0rci0iv or resolutely
as she was Nepared to do during
the Balkan crisis. German fi4lres
in Snort that if her demands in Pr
Sla are now put FORWARD Will ue'"l
mination. the psychology Of the inter-
national situation is such that no
really effective resistance can or
will be offered to them.
AS soon as the Kaiser has return
ed from England and Great Britain
has recovered to some extent from the
grief caused by tae death Of tn King
it may be expected that the German
policy with regard to Persia will rap
idly develop