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and on the Red sea might yet be seriously |
assaied France has erected a strong mari
time fortificaton ia Biserta, opposite the
island of Malta, which would endanRer the
route of the English army: while the deep
ening of the canal from Bordeaux to Mar
bonne in order to permit the passage OF
French men-of.war would certainly imperil
Englanu's control of cthe Suez route. The
connection OF Egypt with India has as yet
not been endangered, and 1t is not likely TO
be 50 long as England shall command the
straits of Babel Mandeb. But the French
have coaling station at Chiek-Said, the ex-
treme southwestern part OF the Arabian pen
insula, and 1t has been rumoreo that France
is negotiating with the porte for the pos
session OF that place. Ii it should fall into
her hands tho southern entrance to the Red
sea would he imperiled. The region In
question is not only natural fortress
of rock, but it contains broad lake,
connected with the Red sea, which
could be converted into naval harbor and
joined to the Bay of Okelis, in the Gulf OF
Adeu, by digging an artificial canal about
1000 yards long, which would create sec
ond outlet from the Red sea 10 the Indian
ocean that would be entirely in the hands of
France. With the progress of the times the
Nile and of the Red sea has largely in
creased. England's position In the world
depends upon the assured connection of the
mother country with India. That connec-
tion in turn depends largely upon the Suez
canal, and there is, therefore, little wonder
that proud ana patriotic Englishmen should
feel that as power ruling the sea she must
keep the canal secure against all eventual
tiles. England checKmated France in Egypt
in 1882. But Egypt has seldom brought luck
to her conquerors, and the time may yet
come when the question of power will have
to be settled, and then the world will see
whether England will be able to continue to
bear the sword at the double gate of Asia
and Africa or whether, as M. Repan has
said Egypt was given to her as a punish
ment for an ambition which exceeds its re-
sources.
-.
The German people, during the last de-
cade, have shown marked dissatisfaction with
the ever increasing army 1t is severe bur
den to them, not only because it requires for
its maintenance great revenues which they
must furnish, but because their youngest,
strongest aud ablest men are forced todevote
several Of the most valuable years OF their
lives to its service. Popular protest has been
piled upon protest against the continued in
crease OF the army since William became
emperor, and the additional sums again and
again demanded by him for military pur-
poses have been secured only after severe
struggles, and after the powerful influences
of the government have been brought to
bear upon the respective maiorlties of the
Reichstag TO coerce or cajcle them to vote
the appropriations demanded. AS the LID
| eral party has numerically increased in
the imperial legislature, the opposition
| to enhanced military grants has become
| more strenuous and bold, and popular sent-
| ment appears to be so commonly averse to
| the emperor's latest army bill as to give
cause for his fear that the Reichstag will re-
| fuse to approve it. The emperor's recent
| humillaJing defeat should warn him against
| inviting more serious one In connection
with his military bill. Liberalism and So
cialism have had growth as rank as that of
weeds since he has been upon the throne,
ana every arbitrary act done by him and
every such word spoken by him has added
| largely to the ranks of his political enemies.
| If he should now turn the Rechstag out of
| doors If it should refuse to approve meas
| ure which the German people so commonly
| disapprove his temporary triumph would be
| likely to have consequences worse than his
| late defeat The elections for new Reich
stag would unquestionably show what ali
late ones have done, an extraordinary addi-
tion TO the number OF tho opponents of the
| imperial policy.
Since Serbia Roumania and Bulgaria
began 10 cut a figure in the world as nation.
alilies, the Albanans, both IN Greece and
Turkey, have bee!. growing more and more
| restless. If the Savs and the Serbs ana lh c
] Roumanians and the Greeks are to have
realms and rulers Of their own. why not the
Albanians' The Albanians. directly de-
scended from the Illyrans of the Roman
empire, have race history as clear and pc
cuiiar as that of any OF the three other
races, Roumanian, Slav and Greek, which
with them have long peoped European
Turkey, or as that OF the Osmanli conquer
ors themselves. They and their ancestors
the nlyrlans, are admitted by ethnologsts tc
be one of the great white races, which, will
the lberians, the Elruscans and the Thra
clans, preceded in Europe the Celts anc
the Hellenes. They belong to the
great Aryan family with the Hindus
the Medes, the Persians, and the leu
TONS Their language is an Aryan language
| auu bnOuBu Iuere Is VlSlDle uaSl
of the Mongol blood in their vigorous, physi
cal type, neither philoloGy nor ethnology ha
yet even plausibly ascerIained its origin
Suffice 1t that wherever this strange an
strong people originally came from, it ha
held its own in the mountain regions it sti
occupies from the great days of the Roma
empire to our own. 1t is o sign of the time
therefore, not to be disregarded, that tn
Aloadians are now beginning what iooR
very much like asystematio agitation fc
the establishment of an ALBANIAN nationalit
in the east of Europe The hrst symptom
} this agitation, like the first symptom OF th
organized agitation which even tually led
the constitution of the United Italy, Is IL
, formation throughout Greece, Turkey, III
Balkan states and Italy, of great societ.
more or less secret, which appears to /
modelled on the lines of the Carbonarl. Tn
society calls itsef the "Drta." 1t ha
branches in Albania. Macedonia. Buleari'
Servia, Greece, Austria Hungary and ltal.
The principal question which now monop'
, | Lies the attention Of the government of Au
, tria, much in the same way that the Iris
problem constitutes the predominant issr