The Times in Tuesday's issue pays a well-deserved tribute to
Baron Marsehall von Bieberstein, the very able German Ambassador at Constantinople, for bringing about the downfall of the notorious Fehim Pasha. Fehim Pasha's black- mailing methods, as the Times points out, were much the same as those of the municipal government of San Francisco, but the resolute action of Baron Marschall has ended the tyranny of " the most powerful, the wickedest, and the most dreaded member" of the Palace clique. Fehim Pasha seized a ship chartered by a German firm. The German Ambassador promptly demanded its surrender, and when the Porte hesitated, Baron Marschall let it be known that unless the ship and its cargo were surrendered in two hours, a party of German bluejackets would seize it. This was followed up by a Note demanding the exemplary punishment of Fehim, and backed by a similar demand made by the British Ambassador, with the result that Fehim was exiled to Asia Minor on Saturday last, and his staff of spies dismissed. Baron Marschall's action is entirely creditable both to himself and to his Government.
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