The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-10-23
OUR SUPPLEMENT.

City subscribers to the ADVERTISER
were furnished with a fulI-page sup
plement of foreign news soon after the
arrival of the steamship Alameda.
Subscribers living at too great dis
lance for such special service will re-
ceive the supplement with this days
paper.
The news is important, and the
situation in Eastern Roumelia is
hourly becoming more critical. If it
be true that the Porte has rejected
the advice of the Council of Embas-
sailors and refused to recognize the
union of Bulgaria and Roumelia,
war is inevitable. The Porte
prefers to fight rebels than to
fight the organized Governments of
Servia, Greece and Montenegro, who
object to Bulgarian ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
without compromising increase of
territory. The Turkish Government
is perhaps wise in this decision, for it
is manlier and better to test the final
in Europe upon point in which it is
clearly right than it is to exhibit i'm
potent weakness by recognizing the
revolutionary action of Roumelia,
and thereby invite attack by the
other Sclav powers. In the coming
struggle, however, the Sultan will
feel the weakening influence of the
Berlin settlement, which took
from him the provinces of BOs-
MIA and Herzegovina, which here
tofore furnished him his best soldiers.
They are now under Austrian con-
troll, and do not count, except posi-
bly, against him.
Servia appears bent upon war. If
the Turkish troops attack ROumelia
the Servians will cross the frontier
into Macedonia; and if the Sultan
recognizes Bulgarian unity the
Servians viii invade Macedonia also.
This advance of the Sclavs will prob
ably induce Greece to cross its North
! ern frontier to share in the partition
/ of what remains of Turkey in Europe.
| Under these conditions one cannot
we'll see how war is to be avoided. 1t
is probable the great powers may
| stand by and look on, but Austria's
/ relation to SerVia and the interests OF
| her own Sclav provinces are of such
/ a character as to render her neutrality
almost impossible. Any warlike
! demonstration by Austria would be
met by u cOuntermove by Russia,
which would probably bring on q
! general war. The Russian invasion
of Roumania, as reported in the dis
patches published yesterday, was a
mistake. About 5000 Russian vOlun-
teers, having congregated in Rou-
mania, crossed the Danube into Bull
| garia and took the cars for Roumelia
where they Joined the rebel forces
/ This is the process by which the
Russians recruited the Servian army
! in the late war.
The Irish Nationalist are sanguine
of Parliamentary success. The Re-
publican party in France has sus'
tanned defeat at the polls; but pei
contra, the Republican party of Ohio
has carried that State by 10000 ma,
jority. If the BOurbons won in
France they lost in Ohio. We con
/ tinue our news items in the regular
paper to-day.
\ notable feature of our supple
ment is the full page advertisement
of the Oceanic Steamship Company
announcing the new arrangement:
| for the Australian mail, which VIZ
refer to in an editorial article. I. D
Mckay, the genial and enterprisinG
Pacific Coast passenger agent, know
ing the benefit of judicious adver
Using, occupies conspicuous place
on the margin of the news page o
the supplement with the announce
ment of the "Great Burlington
/ Route" See his advertisement.