Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-11-26
Prince NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AVID
ArsTEIA.

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the people are demanding ths; be Be
susceesied BY Prince ksraEsorEsTIieh,
!. Accompanied BY the ins.msiion that
Austria zil ooeopy sesvia rather than
s.s that Prince placed upoo tie throne.
Saeh move would b frsuRht With far
reaching eonseaasness- IL could 10;
fail 10 cause instant var between Aus
triA and Russia. and the probabilities
are that half Of Esrspe usaId be drawn
into such a conflict. and ,ha, when the
smoke Of battle cleared away the map
Of the eastern hemisphere would be
almost entirely FsconstrHe.ed- Why
should Austria dream Of preoipiis:ing
saeh . confict rather than see Kara
eeorgsvi,ch rule over Servis7 Resent
history affords the ansEer.
For many years the rival families Of
| O5renoyiich and ksraReorgeviich have
contested for the seTvisn throne. Nov
one family. and nos the other, has been
In power. The long struggle has been
as bitter a. vas tia. between the fsmi-
lies Of York and Lancaster OF that be
tween Guelph ard Ghibsliine. A, ths
time Of the Crimean var the Kara
georgeVitch family vas in power. and
Alexander karsgsorevitch, the head Of
the family. was Prince Of servis- Alex
snder'z friendly attitude toward Turkey
during the great struggle Of thirty years
ago won for servia almos, complete in
dependeuoe. Alexsndsr's Turkish ten
denotes. however. aftsrvard became 90
marked a. to arouse the resensmeni Of
bis SUBJECTS. He was deshroned, and
With difficulty escaped from the coun-
try. IL vas nov the turn of the rival
family. Milo4h ObreRovitch was called
TO the throne, although he Vas then al
mos; ninety years of age. On his death
be was succeeded BY Prince Michael
0brenovitoh, who proved to be q wise
and successful ruler. Alexander. how
ever, had never despaired Of reRainine
the thrsne. and he was continually plot
ting for the overthrow Of the Obreno-
witches Several attempts were made
10 sssassinAte Prince Michael and final
ly, in 1861, he was foully murdered while
walking In the garden of his palace near
Belgrade. The plot to place Alexander
On the throne. however, failed; and
Milan 0brsnovitoh, the cousin and
adopted son Of Prince Michael, who was
then only boy. became Prince. A de-
cree vas passed providing that the sue
cession TO the Serviaa throne should
forever remain in the Obrsnovitoh fam
lily and banishine the Karageoreevitche
forever from Servia. Alexander fed TO
Montenegro. His successor. the present
Prince KarageorRevitoh, is q son in Law
Of the Prince Of Montenegro, who will
aid him in his efforts to regain the Ser
Wan throne.
As is well known. Russia has for cen
turies been ambitious to possess the en-
tire Balkan peninsula and to make
Constantinople the capital of a great
Slav empire. Russian policy since the
time Of Peter the Great has been bent
TO the attainment Of that object. Nu-
merous wars between Russia and Tur-
key have resulted, and year BY year
Russian influence on the peninsula has
become greater. Il In certain that, had
u not been for England and France,
Russia would long since have driven
the Turks from Earope.
The formation of the German En-
pire under the leadership of Prussia
ended all hope of any westward extern
sion Of the Austro- Hungarian Empire.
That Power was utterly overshadowed
in Central Europe by the colossal crea-
tioa Of Bismarck. The only direction
in which the Austro- Hungarian Empire
could possibly extend was toward the
East. Such an extension would Of
necessity eventually bring about con-
flics between Russia and Austria for the
possession of the Danube States. Aus
tria, however. realized her situation
after the establishment Of the German
Empire. and began 10 play for the stake
for which Russia bad played 90 long.
Bismarck vas not sverse to an east
ward extension Of the Austro- Hungarian
Empire, since u would give him the
prstcxt be desired for ssizing the Ger
man provinces Of that Empire and fur
ther consolidating the German power.
Austria accordingly began planning for
the seizure Of the Danube provinces.
An Austrian sentiment was assiduously
cultivated 10 Bosnia, Herzegovina and
Servia. This resulted In the formal
occupation Of Bosnia and Herzegovina
BY Austria in 1872 and the virtual an
nexstion OF I'll sss provinces some years
later. The Obrenovi.ches headed
the Austrian party In Servia,
and during the reign OF Milan,
Austrian Influences have been
paramount In his kingdom. Bulgaria
aud Montenegro, ON the other hand. are
thoroughly Russian In sentiment. Il is
probable that Austria, fearful that a
ssroEg pro Russian State would be built
" on the Danube, secretly urged King
M IN 10 undertake var TO proven, the
cursa ~mstion Of the union between
Bulgaria end Eastern Roxmslia-
As the tNrenovi,eh party In servia
hal esp,ases the Austrian cause. the
Karaseorse.i,eh rsrty espcused that Of
Russia. Prince n NAseorssvitea is de-
voted 10 Russia and 4. eagerly DESTROYS
to establish Russian su. vemaey In the
Danube provinces. His &C ~ession to the
serviss throne would ind all thai
Austrian plotting and 6shtiL,e nave
accomplished in the last fifteen y, s
IL soald thoroughly Rassisnirs Servia
aad veold make Austrian extension to-
yard the Esss almost as impossible as
The creation Of tie German Empire has
made u toward the West.
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