West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1882-03-10

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cusslng the probabilities OF a gen
eral European war, says:
Ia these days of intimate financial and
commercial relations with Europe, q war
there is of immense importance here. 1t
would affect very materially the value of
American securities. by the European de-
sire to seek investments secure from Coz
tinental disturbances. Ii would directly
affect the expectations OF corn and bread
stufs aud provisions from this country.
and in several other ways modify the rela-
tons of trade. When, therefore,, a cor.
respondent of the New York Times,
writing from Paris, and claiming excep-
tional facilities for obtaining information,
says that ION or about the first Of May all
Eastern Europe will ring with the sound
Of %csnnos," it becomes worth while to
look al the situation.
There is in Russia an ''old Russ Party"
which has always been the party OF az
gresoion. II has forced more than one
unwilling Gar into wars of conquest. 1t
Is part oil the old Russ creed to extend
the boundaries. The idea is TO work At
siberia, in Turkistap and Khiua at this
time, where aggressive Russian campaigns
are In progress. so strong ia this feeling
that Cars have often found themselves
unable to resist it. At this time the old
Russ Party calls for assistance to the Pan
Germanic idea by taking up the Pan
Slsvi idea. There is a demand for Rus
sian interference in behalf of H~erzegov,-
ma. The Gar is almost as much afraid of
the DID Russ Party 40 Of the Nihilists.
and ii is the belief of IZnatien ami Sko-
Deleft that foreign war is the thiog that
Russia needs, the thing TO make the Czr
popular, and to stine for the while, at
least, the demSnd for a Parliament and
n Constitution. De Giers, the nead of the
Russian Peace Party, may be gotten rid of
at any time, and wsrlike movements be-
gin 80 rapidly that the world will be taken
by surprise.
Among the symptoms may be noted
that the CJrll and Methodius Slavonic So.
ciety, at Odessa, has unanimously elected
to an honorary membership Of their order
Stojan Kovachevich, the Herzegovina
insurgent leader. At the same time Gen.
erals Gourko and Skobelef were elected
honorary members. Skobeleff, who has
been in Paris, trying to play upon the
anti-Germse feeling there, IN hopes that
France would favor Russia In case of a
war with Germany, has been recalled TO
ST. Petersburg; but he is not in disgrace
on his arrival there, and If he should be
baDished temporarily from the Cars
presence, IT will be mere diplomatic for
mality.
Meantime, the Herzegovina revolution
goes on, and will not soon be suppressed.
These hardy mountaineers are almest in
vIncible in their native Businesses. They
have received, too, q strange reinforce.
ment. The MDhamed0n mountaineers.
left there by the retiring Turkish armies,
are now fighting with herzegovina
against Austria. II was tho in
surrectiOn in Herzegovina that
carried Russia into the invasion of Tur-
key. The old Russ Party forced the late
Ca into this war, and may now force
the present ruler of all the Russlas into it.
The sending of Russian officers on leave
OF absence TO Herzegovina is the way that
the fight began before, and now two diff
ferent patches of Russian officers have
gone 10 Herzegovina. What il is that the
Times correspondent knows from secret
sources in ADDITION to these facts be has not
yet revealed; but these facts are in them
selves enough to render a war probable
between Teuton and Slsv. 1t is by no
means certain that Germany would aid
Austria, for Austria, If stripped of her
Slavic possessions, would become a small
German State. and would ultimately be
absorbed into the German Empire.
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