The Hastings Standard Published Daily THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1897. THE SUBMISSION OF THE SULTAN.

Hastings Standard, Issue 379, 22 July 1897, Page 2

The Hastings Standard Published Daily THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1897. THE SUBMISSION OF THE SULTAN.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

The Surtax has accepted the principle of the evacuation of Greece in obedience to Germany, and thus the storm clouds that have threatened Eastern Europe for several weeks past seem about to dissolve. The prospect is too delightfully peaceful, too good to be true. The peace negotiations, however, are far from completed, for it will be noted that while the principle of evacuation is accepted it is apparently conditionally on an amended frontier submitted by Turkey being approved by the Powers. That amended frontier might include the greater part of Thessaly and the Sultan be still within the agreement accepting the principle of evacuation. The new twist taken by the Turk is palpably for the purpose of gaining time, in order perhaps that the Moslems may be roused into frenzy. For the Sultan to peacefully submit to the empty menace of the Powers seems unreasonable, and we doubt if the terms of peace suggested by the Concert of Europe can be rammed down the throat of the Sultan without the world witnessing a copious shedding of blood. A massacre in Constantinople or in Thessaly will probably be the prelude to the settlement to affairs ; at any rate it is evident that the firmness of the Ambassadors and Admirals is exasperating the parasites in Yildiz Kiosk. The German attitude is singularly humiliating to Germany. The Kaiser with his accustomed bluster led the Great Assassin to believe that he could count upon the support of the Fatherland. The Sultan has discovered how insincere are the promises made in Germany; like much of the German manufactures, they are sorry imitations of the genuine article. The Sultan has made the same discovery as did President Kruger of the Transvaal. In the hour of dire necessity the Germans were not ready to redeem their promises. The Sultan has had to obey the instructions of the Ivaiser, and the Kaiser has had to yield submission to the eloquent argument of Great Britain, France, and Russia. It will give to the Concert of Europe an entity if the Turkish question is settled without bloodshed. Happily events are moving in that direction ; but the end is still a long way off, and many difficulties have yet to be overcome.