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No. 32. | Vienna, 8 August 1902. | 6th Year

Vienna, 7 August.

After a stay of ten days in Constantinople, Dr. Herzl, President of the Zionist Congress, and Mr. D. Wolffsohn, President of the Jewish Colonial Trust, have returned. Dr. Herzl and Mr. Wolffsohn had travelled to Constantinople on 22 July; Dr. Herzl had received a telegraphic invitation from His Majesty the Sultan. He was treated with the greatest distinction and was the Sultan's guest for the whole duration of his stay.

On the Turkish side the negotiations were conducted this time by His Highness the Grand Vizier Said Pasha, and by Their Excellencies the First Secretary of the Sultan, Tahsin Bey, the Grand Master of Ceremonies and Dragoman of the Imperial Divan, Ibrahim Bey, and the Chamberlain of the Sultan, Aarif Bey.

Dr. Herzl had two long conferences with the Grand Vizier and, every day, detailed discussions at the Yildiz Kiosk with the representatives of the Sultan. During these days Dr. Herzl drew up for the Sultan several memoranda in the French language and had them rendered into Turkish by his own translator, whereupon they were laid directly before the Sultan. In these memoranda Dr. Herzl set forth the standpoint of the Zionists and formulated the conditions of Jewish settlement in a contiguous part of Palestine and in still other territories of Asia Minor on the basis of a Charter.

These propositions were taken into consideration on the Turkish side. The Sultan first caused his representatives to declare his full sympathy for the Jewish people; but the concessions which His Majesty declared himself prepared to make to a Jewish settlement could not be recognised as sufficient according to our Zionist programme.

The negotiations have thus once again remained without result. Meanwhile the Sultan caused Dr. Herzl to be assured of his esteem and sympathy. The connection is by no means broken off. We may rather hope that the advantage which an orderly and legally secured settlement of the Jews according to our programme signifies will yet be perceived in its full extent by the Turkish Government.

For that moment the Zionist organisations must prepare themselves; the agitation must be carried on unceasingly, and the material means must be collected. The more capable our movement becomes, the more swiftly and surely will it reach its goal.

On the Ninth of Ab.

By Arthur Schwarz (Vienna.)

Of the victories of Rome this day has remained to Judaism — in this fact the history of our exile culminates. One need only observe the outward bearing of a Jew upon this day to come to know the whole Golus with its tears and its mourning. But if one would know what was before the Golus and what may come after it, then one must look today into our soul. The Ninth of Ab, for long centuries the end of our historical independent existence, is the most historical of all our commemorations. The day on which the deepest wounds were once dealt to our being and our feeling is the most Jewish of all days. It was so in the spirit of men who, behind the slave-walls of their own existence, dreamed the heroic dream of their grandsons. It has become so in the sober mind of the present generation, for whom the future destiny of our people has ceased to be a fata morgana. For on this day the most momentous questions of Judaism come alive.