St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-30
British Pugnacity Toned Down and
Russia With Not Feather
Ruffled.
The Anglo-Turkisll Alliance Spells
Would Give the Gear What He
Supremacy C0Vets.
The French Peasantry Hostile to Wars OF
Conquest-Danger from the High Price
of Bread.
Gen. Graham to Advance on Tamai Monday
The Jews to be Protected in
Morocco.

lull in the war scare, in fact, among the very
sober-minded there was no war scare at ALL
Some of the most jingoists are even begin
ming to ask themselves what grounds they
have had for causing all the alarm of the
past week. The first announcement of the
queens summons calling out the army re-
serves and militia almost created a
panic; it aroused the national
pugnacity thoroughly; it made every
fighting Englishman ready to fight
right away. Pugnacity is still up, but there
is growing belief that it's up for nothing.
blood-thirst being slaked with the coolest
kind of water. After putting everybody in
A FEVER HEAT EXCITEMENT
by sprin ging without notice a call for re-
serves, the ministry are now apparently at
tempting to minimize the import of her
majesty's message by delaying to state what
number of militia and reserves will
be accepted and put under
arms Every effort is made to
draw the government out on this point, but
so far without success. But the ministers
have allowed reports to be circulated to the
effect that no more than 25, 900 men are
wanted. These reports have emanated from
such good authority and been 80 persistently
circulated they are now generally believed,
and so far to use an American expression,
the
THING HAS PETERED OUT TO TWENTY
five thousand men, just about enoug h to- fill
vacancies in muster rolls, caused by the re-
cent drafts for Egyptian and Mediterranean
stations. Some people think there never
was any danger in the situation with Russia,
and that the govern ment even is tring to OBJ
tain glory and credit with the people for
having intimidated Russia by an act which
was permitted to be enormously magnifed in
the popular conception, which was really a
matter of course and
PRACTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT.
Gladstone has replied to tine most pressing
requests for information as to the true i'm
port of the queens summons by saying the
government has decided TO postpone all
statements upon that subject until after
Easter. His reply was accompanied by a
statement that the government hoped 1t
would be able during the interval to reach
some arran cement with Russia. Taken either
as craftsmanship or humbug, the premier's
evasion must be considered clever
piece of work of its kind. Lists of all men
available for service in the army reserves
and militia have been called for. The dock
ward departments have been officially notified
to hold themselves in readiness to supply
extra stores for military and naval service
The Army and Navy Gazette blames the
minor news agencies for fomenting war
rumors. 1t charges them with having circu-
lated yarns about the alleged hurried
calling of ships on. which were stores.
Very often ships actually on duty at foreign
stations have figured as being ordered to out
fit. The military garri6ons in Ireland will be
maintained in full strength and may be in
creased from reserves. Agents OF the Irish
organizations have approached the Russian
embassy in pairs with offers Of assistance in
case war occurs between Russia and England.
These agents propose to
FoMENT RISING IN IRELAND
while England is engaged in Afghanistan,
and to fit out privateers in America to prey
upon British commerce. All they ask is
that Russia shall furnish the Irish with
means to carry out their part of the bargain
and they offer to work as cheaply as possible.
THE ANGLo-TURKIsH ALLIANCE.
Oyerlures TO Turkey for alliance with Rus
STA are still under consideration. Diplomatic
advices from Athens and Constan tnople
concur in corroborating the truth of the re-
port that secret negotiations have been for
some time in progress with Austria, Greece
and Russia for a new territorial arrangement
with Turkey. Under this Russia is to obtain
annexation east of Roumelia to Bulgaria and
an extension of principally east to Roume
liza and the Egean sea. Greece is
to get that part Of Macedonia with
the frontier line along the Secos and Haliac-
ton rivers to the mouth of the latter insthe
Gulf of Salonica. Austria is TO obtain a new
frontier from the plains of Kassova to the
western side of the mount of the ,Oruellos,
along the river Strymon to the Kgeau sea-
The center of the Austrian territory is to be
part of Salouica. Russia also asks to be
accorded the right to occupy the
forts on the Black sea at the
entrance to the Bosphorus. A knowledge
of the fact of these negotiations has hap
pened to increased the chances in favor of
an Anglo-Turkish alliance.
PEACE AT ANY PRICE.
Members of the commons are circulating a
petition to Gladstone urging him to secure a
submission of the Afghan dispute to arbtra-
ton. The petition is not getting any names
except of extreme radicals.