The Wilmingtonian., 1886-11-06
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1885.
KauIbars Mission.

melting the people of Bulgaria into rebellion |
against their government.
No man could be better fitted for the crit
ical undertaking. 1t required all the bland
isment of the most subtle diplomacy to con-
cliate and blind the populace as to the real
interests of Russia. Baron Kaulbars was
eminently fitted for this sinister work
The following graphic description of this
mastery Russian intriguer is given by an
English reporter who first met the general
quarter of century ago when Baron Niko-
las Kaulbars was oply a simple colonel and
chief of staff of one of the army corps at St.
Petersburg.
The writer says:-"That was in the lifetime
of the late Gar, and the Baron's rise has been
rapid since the present Emperor came to the
throne. Baron Kaulbars had then slight
stoop and very little fresh on his bones. His
voice is low and soft, and his manner ex-
tremely courteous, though it always gives
one the idea of being put on, and in speak
ing of weak nationalities or to their repre-
sentatives his tone is generally sighting and
contemptuous. He is a capital companion,
for he speaks English, French, and German
with equal facility, and has au immense
store of odds and ends of knowledge, which
ha lrac tu;t 4
with frank boyishness that is very win.
ming. He can be hardly called true born
Russian, for on the fathers side he is a
Finn, and his immediate female ancestors
were German and English. He has strong
sense of humor, and is fond of stringng to-
gether French rhymes an occupation which
he describes as tres sympathiQue From his
tone of voice in giving order to his subordi-
mates l should imagine that he could be
sufficiently brutal and overbearing should
occasion Offer"
And tnis is the man beneath whose bland
ishmeats- and -hnneyed words the Bulgars
discern the tigers clawsl
= His role is at 'eustasyt thoroughly under
stood, not alone by tho Bulgarian govern.
nent but by the peasantry.
In his recent tour through the country
where his mission was to invoke warm sym.
pathy towards Russia the Baron was listen.
ed to with attention and even applause while
he spoke Of the good deeds of the late Czar
in enabling Bulgaria to throw off its Turkish
yoke. But when the willy envoy touched
upon the points of Russian domination the
tone of his audiences ed'ately changed
and Kisses followed. This has been invar.
iably the case at each meeting summoned
by General Kaulbars, until now his patience
is exhausted and disappointment has given
place to i'll. concealed evaporation.
The Russian envoy's position is now one
of open threat against the Bulgarian govern.
meDt.
1t will be difficult for any of the European
powers or even the people of this country tC
have any sympathy with Russia under tn,
present circumstances.
The whole history of General Kaulbar,
mission to Bulgaria is naught but continued
chapter of the most outrageous attempts al
open intimidation of a free people.
Te ;,t
European annals of great powers unveiled
efforts to throttle the rightful aspirations o
an organized sister nationality.
Baron Kaulbars has made the most auda
cious assertions, patiently untrue, to his owr
government if the status of affairs in Bul
garia. He, foreigner, is openly stirring
up sedition among the peasantry in order
that he may afford an apparent cause for the
ingress Of Russian soldery. His most re.
cent efforts are in the shape of complaints
of the maltreatment of Russians in Bularia,
He complained to the Bulgarian regency il
this direction. Aud in the most business
like way that government demanded the
names Of those who had been maitreated to
gether with lit Of those against whom the
Russian residents were aggreivcd. Genera
KaulSals d fficulty in furnishing the name
and his insolent attitude towards the Bul
garian government on too plainly showed BIZ
hand The Russian envoy is doing all III
can to encompass Russian grievanc,
against Bulgaria. But the people of tha
country and its government are ci:cumspec
to afford no excuse for Russian occupation
1t is the old story of the wolf and tn,
lamb 1t is understood that Baron Kaubar,
only awaits instruction from the Car to pro
ceed to extremities.
Meanwhile an extensive rebellion in the
eastern Caucasus gives the Russian govern
ment great uneasiness. A community O.
one hundred thousand mountaineers, de
sccendants of those mixed nationalties who
under Schamyl at the beginning of thi!
century gave the Cars government man,
years of difficult work in the subiection O
those clans, are now again in rebellion