Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-06-19

SO0st DStWo6u inc herman trIgnt0 Kaiser |
Fritz aud the United States iron. clad Adiron- |
dack, resulting In the disabling and surren-
der Of the former.
ALI EUROPE IN rrpurxT.
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"'''. t"oeo "'o"'s mo'e uhpSP''"3
NJ nome ana on tho sea, all Europe was In
continued ferment France had declared |
war on Germany without waiting Tor ,taly's
action, and n sharp engagement had already
TAX on place ON the Alsatian frontier at Avri-
court. The trl-imperial alliance had at last
assumed tangible form and shane, Germany, |
Russia and Austria stood shoulder 10
shoulder confronting the remainder OF
Europe arrogant and defiant in the belief
hat their com bined force was sufficient 10 |
N,coin plish Whatever usurpatjon of power or |
distribution OF territory might be agreed |
upon between them Opposed To them were |
England, with her scattered forces and com.
parstiyeIy un nprotected seacoast and colonies
France, with a million and half of men
under arms and eager for revenge spain,
W no had seized the Opportunity to revive the
Caroline Islands Incident, and had Joined
fortunes with France Italy, bitterly In.
censed against Austrian aggression, and
Turkey, armed for the death struggle with
her traditionary enemy across the Danube.
The Swiss republic had mt once proclaimed
frontier at every point Belgium also en-
deavored at first to hold aloof from the strug-
gle, but was drawn into II later by unavoida-
bic complications. Holland and Denmark
IN keeping entlfeIS Out VI tne
fight, though, IA results ultimately proved,
with no permanent al vantage to themselves.
At the opening Of the spring OF 1890 lipe
Of hri-tlinu bayonets extended across Europe
from the North Sea along the Rhine To the
Austrian Tyrol and thence down the Adriatic,
marking the outposts Of the utimperiai
forces.
On the 10Th OF May, In obedience To invita-
tions from France and England, Congress
voted To make common cause with the allied
powers The people Of A merica appear tn have
abandoned all their former conservative con-
alterations sgrowinRout of the Monroe doctrine
| A further call of 2OO, 600 men was made. The
decision created the greatest enthusiasm In
London aud Paris.
Not long hNrwards the American govern.
ment under the pressure OF the war spirit
determined 10 send lOot 600 men 10 Europe.
The hrst corps, consisting of 10000 men set
SAIL IRON Fortress Monroe IN June. one
| hundred large steamers, conveyed 10y an
| allied fieet OF iron-clads consisting OF twenty
vessels, conveyed the American contingent
| under the command OF Gen. fairchiid, of
| w Wisconsln, aii" rihnugh hee, OF virginia
given IN hamiraI Conner 10 whnm Admiral
| TEsper reported with squadron OF six
| Erench iron-cI.ds
| This attempt TO reinforce the European
| allies was not permitted to go on uninter.
| rup,ed. A powerful fleet OF Austrian and
| German irou-clads WAS met off the French
| coast and tho first terrific naval combat of the
war epsusd We have not the spacs To re-
| produce tho minu,e and vrapbic description
| of this conflict 1t ia descrjbed with a great
| deal of technical knoyledpe and made
| doubly picturesque by the letters sent home
| from the bows in blue who were ON the trans.
| ports IL il suiiicient to know that atter a
| death struggle of iron-clsds. i'm which both
| sides suf.red tho troons sucaee,ad an reach.
ing France, and the remainder of the i'm be
| rial fleet "A few days Afterwards encountered a
| British squadron off Plymouth and was sC
| seyerely handled that for months afterwards
| not a hostile ship was encountered In the
| North Atlantic
| The problem of provisioning the immens
forces now concentrated In the field now be-
| came the determining one, and the author
| here handles the economic side of his story
| with great shrewdness and tact IL is shown
that America became the determining facto
| in this respect and "a England held the Sue;
canal in spite of every effort TO dislodve bel
and had concentrated most of her navs
power in the Mediterranean, the imperia
forces were at the outset crippled and weak
| ened nv the question of com,nissariat
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| ''"'I' ""hNH '''
| sun ahotnef iaclor ihtefVehed, anu ont
not iorseen by the imperial forces. Th'
slumbering element of Communism, Anarch
ism, Nihilism and Socialism were Tanned
into new activity all over Europe, and, a
| might nave been expected, seized the oppor
tunity TO renew its desperate and RUTHLESS
| tight against imperial power. 1t broke ou
l
| troops moved southwark. 1t was echoed IN
Berlin and Vienna. lncendiary hres wer
raging In all the European capitals Th'
SOUND exploding dynamite startled Europ
| from one degree of Latitude TO another. As
sassination became the order of the day, ant
the world grew familiar with the news o
murder
In January, 1891, four great armies OF 300,
o)o men each we're simultaneously put II
motion, with Cologne, CobIentz, Meiz anc
StrasDourg a. objective points One-half o
tho American continent operated with thu
Frmy moving upon Metz; the other half hat
been incorp rated into the army Of th,
Nosses, which, under command of Bou
LANCER, was massed along the frontier, pre-
pared TO operate upon StrasbOurg.
Then followed the account, cleverIy iur
nished py military hand, OF the series o
vast operations whlch ended I'm the decisiv,
battie OF Bietegheim," IN which the im
perlal forces we're overthrown, the pride o
received IT'S death blow in Europe.
Inc details OF TINS battle are most inge
| n'"'y "'Noh py uiscreet iudplnatlou