St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-29
British Pugnacity Toned Down and
Russia With Not Feather
Ruffled.
The AnglO-Turkish Alliance SpOils
Would Give the Gar What He
Supremely Covets.
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.

LONDON, March 2S.-There is marked
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
panic: it aroused the national
pugnacity thoroughly; it made every
fighting Englishmau ready to fight
right away. Pugnacity is still up, but there
is a growing belief that it's up for nothing.
blood-thirst being slaked with the coldest
kind OF water. After putting everybody in
FEVER HEAT EXCITEMENT
by springing without notice 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 $4,000 men are
wanted. These reports have emanated from
such good authority and been so 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 enough 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 governm ment even is tring to OBJ
tain glory and credit with the people for
having intlmidated Russia by an act which
was permitted to be enormously magnifed in
the popular conception, which was really
matter of course and
PRACTICALLY INSIGNIFICANT.
Gladstone has replied to the 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 it
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 a clever
piece of work of its kind. Lists of all men
available for service in the army reserves
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
k.,sx. -
fit. The military garrisons 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
FoMEST RISING N IRELAND
while England is engaged in Afghanistan,
and to it 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 ASGLo-TURKIsH ALLIANCE.
Overtures TO Turkey for alliance with Rus
sia are still under con sideration. Diplomatic
adyices from Athens and Constaniinople
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 Roumeiia 10 Bulgaria and
an extension Of principality east to Roume-
La 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 in the
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 70 the Egean sea-
The center Of the Austrian territory is TO De
4 part of Salonica- Russia also asks TO De
accorded the right 20 occupy the
forts on the Black sea az the
entrance to the Bosphorus- knowledge
of the fact of these negotiations has hap
peued TO increased the chances in favor OF
an Angio-Turkish alliance.
PzACE AT AST PRICE.
Members OF the commons are cire1lstinga