The Indianapolis journal., 1888-01-09
YESTERDAYS SECOND EDITION.
The following items of news appeared ia our
Second Edition of Sunday.1
Russia WIN Go to War If Necessary.


Second Edition of Sunday
Russia wiz Go to WAR If Necessary.
LCopyright. lsss, by the New York Associated Pres
BERLIN. Jan. IA calm, which official and
Diplomatic circles think is deceptive. prevails for
the moment. The Austrian and Russian gov
ernments have exchanged assurances of pence
full aspirations, to which nobody attaches the
slightest Importance The only actual change in
the situation tending toward peace is the active
negotiations between Count Kalnoky. the Aus
trian Foreign Minister and Prince Lobanoff. the
Russian ambassador at Vienna for the settle
ment of the balance of power in the Balkan
peninsula This mitigates the crisis, and re-
moves the danger of war, at least for the pres
ent but It does not modify any of the
sential differences between the two governments
The negotiations ara expected by both sides to
end in exact definition of the respective de-
mands such as heretofore has not existed, and
from which may be obtained valid excuse for
war According TO semi-official dispatch re-
ceived from Vienna tonight, Prince Lebanon
opened the diplomatic campaign by proposing.
as the first step toward entente, the removal
of Prince Ferdinand from the throne OF Bulgaria
under a joint mandate OF the powers; the cleo
tion of a prince by new Sobranje, and
the reappointment OF Russian officers to the
Bulgarian army. The proposal specifies that
the Few prince must be a member OF the ortho-
dox Greek Church. and the Sobranje so elected
ing legally constituted. In the mean
time. the Foreign Office here holds aloof
from the negotiations. which recognized as
feelers by Russia toward other demands. The
Cars Ministers already know that Count Kali
noky will not admit that the Berlin treaty gives
Russia any special right to interfere in Bulgaria
They know, also, that it is impossible to obtain
from the powers joint mandate. Baffied on
these points, Russia will next raise a Few ques-
tion on Austrian retention oe Bosnia and Her
zegoyina. These provinces were occupied under
purely temporary title, but now practically
annexed. Austria will be called upon to evacu-
ate them, and it is probable that the question OF
their future administration will be referred to
q conference of the powers. An ostenslbie ca
beili, it is anticipated, will arise over Aus
trias refusal to divide the Balkans.
The lines of st. Petersburg diplomacy tend to
q protracted exchange OF views, thus assisting
the plans of the Russian strategists, who are
unwilling to risk until the summer. No
time would be given to Russia to complete her
preparations if Bismarck had free hand But
the divisions within the imperial family are in
creasing; the weakness Of the Emperor and the
renewed activity of the -Bismarckian court
influences combine to enfeeble and retard the
development of the German policy. Only the
determination of Austria can now precptate .
war. If the Kalncky government is too tlmld to
cut short the negotiations and demand the rea-
for the concentration of Russian troops on
the frontier. Russia can select her time for
rupture.
Mean WHILE despite sem-ohicial assurances
to the contrary, war preparations progress on
either side. The Warsaw arsenal is working
day and night. AT Kovno extensive
earthworks and detached forts being con-
strucfed, and the defepses of Ivan-Gorvel are
being armed with heavy guns. Cracow papers
report that the Russians are erecting bridge at
the junction of the San with the Vistula, and
are forming there also cavalry camp. They
also report that 4. 600 ambulance beds were dis
tributed last week along the stations tho
Vistula line; that military intelligence bureau
has been established at Piotrekoff, and that the
valuables pictures sand art treas
ures in the imperial residences In
Poland being removed to the interior
of Russia Another strong column of troops
has been concentrated in the Lubin district. An
other division of cavalry has left Kischeneff and
division of grenadiers has gone from Riga.
Both divisions are bound for Poland. The total
force of Russians in the Warsaw. wilma and
kief districts, according to military estimate,
reaches 325, 600 men. with 720 guns. The caval-
ry regiments stationed immediately on the
frontier, being supplied with rations on the
same scale as during an active campaign. The
cost to the Russian treasury is also equal to the
war cost. Everything points to the conclusion
that the Czar means to enforce his terms, il not
by diplomacy, by war.
The attitude OF England in the event of hes
tilities will be of friendly neutrality. This
fact is known to the Berlin Foreign Office. No
overtures have ever been made by the German
government for England's cooperation in the
triple alliance. The Cologne Gazette's article
urging the advantage to England of joining the
alliance without official inspiration What
official inspiration reaches Berlin on the posi-
Petersburg. The Gar has obtained the assur-
ance that England has not Joined the alliance.
The Moscow Gazette to-day emphasizes the
wisdom of England abstaining from any Goa
lition with the central European powers. 1t
says that she should rather conciliate Russia,
in order to remain in peaceful possession of In
dia. Pan-Slavist organ seeks to show that
Lord Salisbury's friendly neutrality is associated
with sympathy for Blsmarcks policy, and says
that the evolution of events may soon convert
this sympathy into active cooperation with the
alliance.