The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-23
COURT GOSSIP OF INTEREST
IN NEW AND OLD WORLDS

Of German diplomats are unable to keep
state secrets" 1t is true. Bismarck made
use Of that impression in the early EOS,
when he issued his famous prOhibitOry
rule. But he referred to one specific case
, only. and, in the light of his exc ptiOnal
difficulties at the time with one NJ the
German diplomats he had a perfect right
to say So.
Sir Frederick Ponsonby. who has been
appointed Governor OF Bombay. served
in India in the early nineties as abide
camp to Lord Edgin. who was then Vice
roy. Sir Frede' ok has since been at
taChed to the British court. and he was
equerrv in ordinary and assistant private
secretary TO King Edward. He holds the
same office during the present reign.
Sir Frederick is the eldest son OF Sir
Henry Ponsonby. who for many years
was both keeper OF the privy purse and
private secretary to Queen Victoria.
Lady Ponsonby widow Of Sir Henry
is a daughter OF the late Mr.. John Rulteel.
OF FIete. and Lady Elizabeth Bulteel. who
was a daughter Il Lord Grey, the Brit
ish reform bill prime minister. The Pom
sonbys are all Liberals. and Sir Henry
was a great admirer of Mr.. Gladstone.
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria often must have
recalled lately how he visited CONSTANT
nOple as the Sultan's vasSal. wearing the
fez. But even then he was too quick for
the Turk. The prince had arranged to visit
at o'clock one afternoon, the famous
American. Robert College, where many
Bulgarians were educated. Abdul ITamid,
who was suspicious of that institution.
tried to stop the visit by sending to the
prince on the morning of the day a mes
sage that he wished to see him personally
at $3.50 o'clock. Ferdinand not desiring
either to disObey what was virtually his
suzerains command or to miss the col
lege, ordered his lunch and his carriage.
lunched and drove in hot haste and in
spected the college before he visited the
Sultan. That time Abdul Hamid felt that
he had caught A Tartar.
1t has been recalled that when the
Turks took Saioniki. in 1880, the body Of
st. Demetrius, SalOnikis patron saint,
on whose day the Greeks reCaptured the
city, was taken from tho tomb and hack
ed to pieces. But in fairness il should be
noted that once year the Greeks have
visited the former Church of St. Demet-
rius (Which had become 4 mosque) with
out hindrance on the part of the Turks,
to revere the saints Emory. and to eat
II possible. OF the molu erOund the tomb.
which is believed to cure the eater of
any disease that may affiiCt him.
Why is il that NJ. PachutCh, the Ser
visn premier. in his interviews. has new
er talked about the CnClavc of the Kick.
He would find here 4 strong argument for
the possession by Servia of port on the
Adriatic.
Bosnia. when it belonged to Turkey
not so long ago-was land-bound on the
Adriatic side by the coast Of DalmatIa.
The Turks. however. owned a strip of
land near Ragusa, which, cutting across
Dalmatia, connected the province with the
seaboard. This strip. which does not show
on small maps. was called the enclave
CT the Kick. They owned a second en-
clave farther south near Cattaro. Thus
Dalmatia. which on ordinary maps ap-
pears to be a continuous dominion from
the Gulf Of Quarnero to the Bocche di
Cattaro, really was cut up into three seq
ments, with two Turkish feelers jutting
on TO the Adriatic.
Yet Austrian interests" seemed to pros
per, notwithstanding. Servia's need for
an outlet on the Adriatic is much great
er. Let ServIa look out for one on the
Aegean Sea, says Austria. Well, the
former lords of Bosnia held that sea,
part OF the Black Sea, the Mediterranean,
and the southern outlet Of the Adriatic |
as well. Yet they needed the enclave Of
Kick Much more do the Servians want
a window on the only sea they can |
ever hope to reach.
The Seryians can plead that their great |
est trade in pork and bacon Is with Italy. |
They want a port nearer to Brindisi and |
Ancona than any one the Aegean Sea |
FLANEUR
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