Show GLADSTONES LETTER Reply to the Duke of Westminster Failed to Cause a Sensation Lordon March 20The publication of Mr Gladstones letter to the Duke of i Westminster who by the way is at the head of a relief movement for the benefit of the suffering Armenians protesting pro-testing against the attitude of Great Britain Russia Germany France I Austria and Italy toward Greece and arraigning the government of Lord Salisbury Sal-isbury for the position they have assumed as-sumed that of being practically tails to the kites of Russia and Germany has not excited the sensation which it was expected the appearance of the pamphlet would create The Conservative Conserv-ative newspapers which are bound by parry affiliations to support Lord SalIsbury sbury comment at length upon the pamphlet They point out losing sight of the fact that the conditions now and at the time to which they refer are very different that Mr Gladstones I government took the initiative in the blockade of Greece in 1SSG when that kingdom claimed a section of Macedonia Mace-donia to balance the acquisition of I eastern Roumelia by Bulgaria this coercion co-ercion on the part of the powers ceas lag only upon the submission of Greece after some desperate fighting upon the frontier of Turkey in which several I hundreds of Greeks were killed and hundreds taken prisoners by the Turks The Liberal papers take heart in the I ringing words of their old leader to attack at-tack the policy of the government more H m 1 VIpUiUUIy that last year LUdL when Lord Rosebery LIIty iedIj was i i leader of the Liberals he declared that everything that could be done ought to I I be done to put an end to the detestable detest-able system of government prevailing II r in Turkey The plain statement made yesterday by the Earl of Kimberly the I I present Liberal leader in the house of lords explaining the speech he made at the meeting of the general federation I federa-tion at Norwich should set at rest all doubts concerning the present policy of the Liberal party and the proof that Mr Gladstone is in full accord with I the present Liberal leaders me earl said in effect that what he intended to convey in his speech was that the I Liberal party would depart entirely I from the policy it had pursued in the past in connection with Turkey and I I would maintain that the existence of I the Ottoman empire was a standing I menace to the peace of Europe Regarding the present situation n representative of the United Associated Presses has obtained information from an official source that Lord Salisbury has not yet given his consent to a blockading of Greece He has declined to give a definite decision in the matter until It is seen what the effect will be of the measures that have been adopted in regard t Crete The foreicrn office is confident that developments in the near future will ameliorate the crisis The nd of RussoGermanAustrian r diplomacy has been during the current week as vigorously in favor of the severest se-verest reDression of Greece a at any pariod of this longprolonged crisis But for the opposition of Great Britain supported sup-ported by France and Italy a war blockade not a pacific blockade of all the Greek coast would have been formed andMthe Greek fleet in Cretan and Aegean1 water might have been treated as the alliedfleets dealt tvith the Turks at Navarino The European concert always shaky would have collapsed and Great Britain have had to face humiliation or be forced to enter uon an European war single handed or with one doubtful ally The danger of a European war Is bv no means yet averted The czar appears to have thrown over Greece and the just demands of Greece altogether and to be willing to allow the Turks to use their full military strength in crushing the comparatively feeble army of King George The German emperor one of whose alms is to weaken the Russo French entente by playing Russias game on the Balkan peninsula ha both incited and supported the czars policy The Austrian government which opposes any extension of Greece in any direction and especially towards Macedonia ha though taking no initiative in-itiative sided with the kaiserThis simmering mess of diplomacy still gets the name of the European concertI concert-I |