The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1888-11-29
European War Scare,

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The London correspondent of the New
York Times. under date of Nov. ], has the
following Statement of the war feeling
among some of the people Of the Eastern
world: +ess.,. te'
The snip has already begun TO rock and soon
IT. will he very ron. h indeed. obviously Eu-
rope is to have no sleep o nights ibis winter.
1t VISA iurmishJTagu rhat J. pointe our Inc
immiuence of a war scare. and now nothing is
talked OF iu the circles which are occupied with
international aIfalrs and IN the papers which
etert these ciIcie- but The Sudden iislhS ci
new war cloud. There are Two substantial iacis
uuou which this eAci,e nieutis based The fist
is the RUSSIAN is.ai, q SlVi,~U 90. the DIX %
which viii oe raised in France. The second II
cuaugrs Ii .isa .i.e 'h.s4."4ir-e
tion of all III Them direction OF lie West
ern IIon.irr.< 10 ! I've these allerations In de
tail may noI be .nnIuterestlng. BY cu'tlns
down some o Tile corps which have an excess
of Infantry divisions al entire new army corps
will be Gated but IL Is MOI stated where itTll}
be Stallion u. the Iweu ~ ninth lniantiy
Division, now at Riga, is To be Transferred 10
KJguo on the-PrnssIan= Aontief, and the
Twenty fifth. also at Riga, wlH be moved /.
Minsk on the Austrian border. The whole OF
the second Caucasiau Army Corps is To be
moved bag aud baggage Into Russia proper and
while there Is yagLe susg- sllop THAT POI iions
of it will go to Riga, Bel i'll people pr oess to be-
lieve that none olit VIII get any further Than
Poland on It's way norm. In any event, three
of its divisions viii stop at keif by official
proclamation. These bigger movements
than those which createu such Juror yea :.
ago., by these changes Tie Russian force in
the three frontier Governments oi hief, War
saw. and Wilma Was raised To eight army corps
comprising twenty divlslOns OF Infantry ami
nine OF cavalry OF seven hundred guns. Tie
new move ments Will bling This up To d total vi
nearly four hundred Thousand men, including
the largest cavalry 1olce ever massed under
anyone command in the woIld's history. 1t is
noted, moreover, that the bu TX OF this cavalry
is posted. hear Lublin, thus ,Lapgins The
border OF Gallo a. and it is VIGOROUSLY the Rus
sian islan when war does begin 10 dash with
This great body II horsemen into GaItcia, It Ar
up the tracks, aid prevent an Austrian mobil-
ization.
The poiitical phases of this new wholesale
advance have their intelt st loo.. IL is to be
observed that in both years Russia has moi
scrupled to weaken her strength in The eau
casus in order to auament the forces which
menace ives tern urope. Ibis does LOT look
as If the mex time she counted upon having TO
fight Turkey along with the others. There has
been for log time a rumor. more or less
credible, that The Porte had been squared by
Russia. and would at least preAer,e d he utrality
i'll the com ing struggle. This confide Mt with
drawal OF all troops on the Armenian frontier
certainly Eeeihs confiim these rumois
There IS noticeable. moIeoyer-and perhaps
this is more serious still-a very marked
change in the relations of Rusaia ard Rou-
mania. Last } ear there was considerable con-
,trof II
ian borders and widespread p-asaut revons in
Roum lui itself pa lpablv instigated by Rus-
sian agents THIS year We hear Of no Russian
demonstrations In that direction and indeed
only to-day Jews comes that Rouinania h,
alb )ished the resti clive use passports in lis
int course with Ruthia. GfcouTse there is no
dou t that kirg Charles is as deeply in 81 mpa-
thy With the triple alliance ever, but his
new Parliament is pro Russian II nj that max es
the difference.
On the other hand, ought to remember
that IL is Berlin which Is now raising this
frightened cry about impending war and
since William the gbflyer came in Berlin has
been working Itself up into state of Mysteries
much like that of Paris in the latter days the
empire. The Berlin press never consplcu-
olsly over-weighted with dignity or self
repression but for the past few months it has
been childlshly excitable and steadily sensa-
tional like the new Kaiser How completely
this young man has tthrown off all the re-
straints of constitutional sovereignty is best
illustrated by The speech he made to the Mags.
trates OF Breslau yesterday. in which he ex-
pressed his great delight that the city in the
recent elections defeated the Freisinnige, or
advanced Liberal cand idates for the Prussian
Parliament. and returned none but t,ouserya.
tlyes and their National Liberal allies This
frank, of-hand disclosure of partizansh1p in
afA1rs of the kingdom shows the frame of mind
IN which William propos running his empire
Not even his medieval grandfather, to whom
SO much was pardoned Tor the memory of his
great and victorious career, would have ven.
tured upon such bald expression of his sym-
path1es with The Parliamentary majority as
against the minority. Naturally the Berlin
press pack have caught this spirit of unreserve
ana cheap stralnfhg for effecG and hence their
present yowling against Russia and even Aus
tria, because 1t is not also shivering with
element over the Russian menaces must be
subjected to certain discount, yet the facts
are facts, and Russia's steady policy in in
creaslng her Western ornaments can have
only one meaning.
To sum the matter up. we are measurably
nearer war than we We're year ago, for the
double reas en- that Russia slow pr. parations
are b much more complete and that young
williams presence on the German throne adds
Al eccentric and disturbing element to the
situation which did not then exist, but neither
these nor both combined furnish conclusive
evidence that the storm CLOUDS will burst next
spring. 1t Is true that they may. 1t is equally
true they may continue TO hang over the hori-
zon gloomy and lowering for long time 10
come. Yet the condtioil of affairs Is SO tickIsh
that incidents calculated to draw down The
electricity will be watched more nervously
than ever, and 1t is safe to say that the Conti-
mental Bourses will have more than an ordi-
mary tendency to panics and crashes through
out the coming Winter.