Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-20
WAR FEELING IN EUROPE.
All the Powers are Nervous at the Condition
of Things.

All the Powers are Nervous at the Condition
of Things.
London Special to New York Times.
All at once, with scarcely a word of
warning, England finds herself holding
councils OF war, nervously hurIying
troops to ports OF embarkation and keep
ing the military factories at Woolwich
and Enfield at work by night. Ostensi-
bly, this new commotion has been stirred
up by the advance of some five thousand
dervishes down the Nile toward Wady
Halfa. According to the official story
the Connaught rangers who were playing
cricket at Aldershot on Thursday when
they got summons for instant prepaTa-
ton, and who sailed from Davenport to-
day, are going to Malta to replace the
Black Watch, who proceeded up the Nile
with the other regiments.
But there is something more serious in
the air than brush with the Soudanese.
Daily councils of war are being held here,
aud the utmost haste is used to get the
other regiments in condition for
foreign service. There is more
widespread activity and vastly
greater haste than when England
was preparing for Wolseley's expedition
to Khartoum, and it is ridiculous to as
sumo that all this furry is occasioned by
the advent of a few thousand half
shaved, thirst consumed barbarians
above the second cataract in Upper
Egypt. Just what this something else is
is not at the moment apparent, but it is
tOlerably safe betting that the COnnaught
rangers will see the Straits of the OAR
danelles before they do the minarets of
Alexandria.
Perhaps there is a clue to this sudden
fluster here in the rumOrs which are ex-
citing Vienna to-day. These are to the
effect that Servia is again going to attack
Bulgaria, the pretext apparently being
Prince Ferdinand IS alleged intention to
assume the title Of king of Bulgaria next
month Nothing substantial is known of
this here, but the Seryian regency yester-
day ordered so 900 rifles distributed
promptly among the peasantry belong
ing to the third reserve. The measure is
officially described as intended to sup
press brigandage, but Vienna laughs at
this as pretense and believes firmly that
an attack on Bulgaria under Russian aus
pices is intended instead. simultaneously
there come reports of fresh arrivals of
Russian troops on the Posen border, au-
thoritative announcements that the car
will not visit Germany at all this year
and news of increasing disorders in
Crete Out of these things will come
new war scare.
< While young William is Illuminating
under the shadows of the Norwegian
mountains his two chief lieutenants are
making Berlin hum with energy and
noise of their deep personal quarrel. The
Bismarcks are anxious to keep out of
war as long as they can. Count Valdez
see, who is Won Moltke's successor as
chief OF staff, is the visible
head of the aggressive party, which
wants to force the fighting. There IS
wordy wrangle proceeding in the Berlin
papers, and, indeed, the leading German
journals generally, between these oppos-
ing factions, but thus far there is little in
it to help one to guess the relative
strength of the combatants. The Bis
MARKHAM dynasty is by no means as firm
on its legs as it was during the lifetime
of the old kaiser, but it has still great re-
sources at its command at court and has
a powerful commercial and financial
backing It's struggle to hold its own
against the new generation of sword
clankers who surround the young en-
peror will at least be vehemently waged.