Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-06-16
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LONDON, June 15-[ -[Copyrightl.-A new
war scare has been born this week, and just
now it appears to be a remarkably fine
healthy infant of its kind, but to me, despite
its present vigor, the chances seem in favor
of its dying young, like its predecessors.
But at this nome 1t Europe is taking it very
seriously indeed, and the war scare is the
only talk. The Standard, which makes
speciality ofalarmist news, is quite hysteri-
cal with worry, and the Daily Ne1Os and
other papers follow suit, all in a very dole.
full pessimIstic tone.
Russia has shown an unusually pro-
nounced desire to gobble up the little Balkan
States which act as a buffer between Aus
tria, Turkey and Russia, and hence the row.
The Servian regents, instead of looking
after the interests of their nominal master,
King Alexander, Milan's little son, have
been openly coquetting with their real mas
ter, the Russian bear and listening favor
ably to Russian proposals for military
convention. A military convention in this
case would mean military annexation of
Servia by Russia, the control of Servian
troops by the Gar the elevation to the Ser
vian throne of Karageorgevich or the Prince
of Montenegro, the deposition of the Abene-
witch dynasty and a very uncomfortable
state of things for others whose interests de-
mand Servia's independence.
CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE.
Austria is the chief of these, and the
alarmists are predicting that she will have
to pick row with Russia directly, or march
into Servia and thrash that little nation
until she shall promise to remain neutral
and independent. 1t is, of course no trick
at all to prove how little scrimmage down
in the Balkan peninsula must setall Europe
blazing The demonstration has been made
SO often that it is now as simple as the rule
of three.
Austria alone can't stand her ground
against Russia, so Italy and Germany, as
members of the triple alliance, must turn in
and help Austria. France seeing Germany
in trouble would vigorously remember 1870
and her missing territory, and we should
see big and little continental powers at it,
hammer and tongs.
The British lion is meanwhile borrowing
a leaf from the back of his friend, the
iaekal, and prowling about waiting to pick
the bones of the vaneuished. Beside this
Balkan trouble there are others. Germany
is bullying little Switzerland because she
won't give up Socialists and other trouble
some characters to be put away where they
can WOETN DlSudTCk, huSSld, lOT WONDER,
agrees with Germany, and abuses Switzer-
land also because of her protection 10 the
Nihilists, and the poor little hilly republic
is so worried one would think it would
feel inclined to retire to the top of Mont
Blanc and pull up the ladder.
THE SHAFTS WARNING.
Tho Shah, too, has had his lesson. After
being fed and pampered in Russia he was
dismissed with stern warning to be care
full about showing too great friendliness to
England, which seems to have made him
thoughtful. That other semi-civilized high
migbtiness, the poor, sublime Turk,
always comes in for his share of anything
unpleasant. Now he is being worried and
bullied, too, because he has not discharged
his obligations toward Armenia, and the
fact that he is bankrupt and in trouble with
his wives has stirred up no pity in the re-
lentless Russian.
With all these complications on, and big
armies everywhere waiting to fight, it seems
as though the explosion ought to come some
where soon, but somehow or other these
things calm down, and perhaps this one will
too. The most serious feature is the tre-
mendous effect which this scare has on
European bourses, an effect such as has not
been produced by any of the many recent
scares.
All the markets OF Europe are affected.
Stocks are freely sold, and prices are rapidly
shrinking. This proves that the money
men of Europe, who possess a large per-
centage of Europe's brains, believe trouble
is coming, and that after all the false cries
of ''wolf," the animal is here at last.
ROYAL HOLIDAYS.
As opposed to war rumors it may be said
Herbert Bismarck has gone for his holiday
as usual, Emperor William is going to rest
and fish on the Norwegian coast and the
Danish King is making his usual yearly
preparation TO receive his son-in-law, the
Gar, with all his family. An individual
made most decidedly uncomfortable by it
all is King Milan, who, tired of his divorce
trouble, etc, resigned his job asking to |
escape public notice and be quiet.
Now the opposition of the Regent is so |
potent that he dare not 90 back to Belgrade |
as he was about doing from a fear, which |
appears well founded, of Imprisonment or |
assassination. The circulation of disouiet- |
ing rumors is most industriously carried on.
and even the official Berlin paper prints
such rubbish as the tale about Russia having
ordered 4,0O0, 600 pairs of boots to be ready
in two months, an order, by the way, which
all the boot factories in Europe could not
fill.