The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-10-13
FRANCE APPARENTLY
OUTW|TT|NC KAISER
Aftermath of Balkan Wars
Places Germany in Some
what Unfavorable Light.
CREECE'S STAND NOTED
Alliance Between France and
Spain Is Predicted as
Soon to Exist.
CREECE'S STAND NOTED
By FREDERICK WERNER.
Cable to The Tribune.

By FREDERICK WERNER.
Special Cable to The Tribune,
BERLIN, Oct. l2.-Tho Balkan wars
have left political Europe looking like
a sea where the swell is still heavy
after the end of great storm. The
surface looks calm but the depths are
agtated; the whole continent is rest
less. The two great groups of nations,
the triple alliance and the triple en-
tente, have weathered the storm with
closely reefed sails without any visible
damage and the statesmen have not
been slow throwing ont their bait to
fish in the troubled sea. That the
kaiser was the first one to get his
line out with his rather unfortunate
attempt to capture the rising Greece
its meager result; German marshal Is
baton is poor bait when compared with
the golden millions of France. His
royal brother-in- law was kind enough
to rise to the bait, but the people of
Greece we're not to be deceived, and
lost no time in showing the world
that they knew on which side their
bread was buttered. Greece needs the
money which France has to offer and
marshals' batons build no railroads,
so Greece will stick to France
Rumors Are Questioned.
There are rumors here that King
Constantine intends to take command
of his people, when he returns home,
just as he took command of his army.
1T has been asserted time and again
that he intends to treat Venizelos as
the kaiser treated Bismarck, but for
his own sake it is sincerely to be
hoped that these rumors are not true.
As modern Germany owes everything
to Bismarck, so does Greece today owe
dead, and to NJ. avenizeIos, who is
very much alive. Gratitude is by no
means the strongest feature in the
Greek character, and out Of gratitude
the Greek people would not keep Veni-
zelos in his present position, but they
realize that they stand in need Of his
continued services and that the use
fulness Of their king, in spite Of his
heroism and undoubted strategic abili-
ty, came to an end with the war. AS
a diplomatic asset he proved valueIess
at the very first.
He utterly lacks all the qualities
which made his late father one of the
greatest royal statesmen of the age,
and probably the only one who could
have kept himself on the throne in
Greece, so if the kaiser means we'll he
will strongly advise his royal brother
in-law not to attempt any Germaniza-
tion of Greece, or he may yet share the
fate of that country's first German
ruler, King Otto.
In the harbor Of Cartagena. where
celebrated the third anniversary y of the the
entente cordiale, French men -of-war
are at anchor and the Alcalde of
Madrid has asked the citizens of the
90 heroic capital to give their house
fronts a new coat of paint IN honor Of
the visit of President Poincare of
France. Painful though it is to Ger
MANS the fact cannot be denied that
everything points to the coming Of a
Franco.Spanish alliance
The question of an entente was dis
cussed already this spring when AL
fonso XIII visited Paris, and ever
since then the minds of the two peoples
have been prepared for it, As a matter
of fact its coming WAS to be foreseen
ever since the Morocco treaty was ar
ranged with the friendly assistance of
Sir Maurice de Burensen.
Spain Needs Some Help.
From Spanish point of view an
alliance with France is a very sensible
move, for since her holdings in Africa
were enlarged through diplomatic
means Spain stands greatly in need of
Franee's good will and assistance.
France, on the other side, wants to
reach an agreement whereby Spanish
d troops will be obliged to keep order in
northern Africa, that she may with
draw the majority of her own troops to
the home country, where they would be
badly needed in case of war with
Germany. She is steering toward a
Frapco-Spanish military and naval con-
vention, and she will achieve her ends
: by a commercial treaty advantageous
to Spain and promises of French capi-
: tai, which the hidalgos' country needs.
Germany can do nothing to prevent
this beyond congratulating herself on
the fact that Spain IS capture by the
triple entente will mean a strengthen
ing Of the element within this group
of powers, which is interested in peace,
p and in peace only.
Change Court Procedure.
Gcrmany's diplomatic representative
IN Egypt has. am told, received re-
liable information that the aholishment
of the capitulations in that country is
near at hand The mixed and consular
courts are to be replaced by Egyptian
courts, consisting of European and ma
tive judges, the former to constitute
the majority and each country to be
. represented among the judges according
to the Importance of her interests. The
Egyptian police is TO be completely re.
organized and the strength of the
European police increased. The Eu.
ropean powers are in the future to have
no voice in regard TO new taxes or Gus
toms duties.