Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-12-08
RUSSIA INVITES WAR.
Hatred For Germany
Shows Itself Openly.
FRANCE WOULD GIVE AID.
A Complication in Which Many Ma
tions Are Concerned.
FRANCE WOULD GIVE AID

| IoNDON, Dec S.-The Times yesterday
printed story ON Vienna o he tn 4
that the Russian government had declared
it imperative thai the kilia arm Of the
Danube should be made navigable, the
object Of VIII ch dcm,ud was 70 secure the
exemption Of the X liza branch from the
control Of the Danube commission. The
story has served 70 attract renewed atten
ton t. the serious situation Of affairs In
Europe.
That the various countries are fully
alive TO the difficulties aheat OF them
there can be no doubt, and numerous Incl
dents have come to light within the past
few days which ind c tie that all the
powers are making preparations 10 meet
any emergency, whatever It's proportions
may be.
In connection with these recent develop
ments the statement made yesterday on
the authority Of the Westminster Gazette
that five new battl ships. "A fr,t-class
cruiser and number II smaller vessels
have been ordered TO augm Mt the British
navy, is not without siguiiic cnce.
The g lobe, C ,mmen ing on The Times
dispatch, asks II we are on the eve OF re-
yiva OF the state of things produced by
the Crimean war. lt says that Russia's
demand that the Kiiia mouth Of the Dan
ube be made navigabe is the most alarm
Ing of the ugly portents Of trouble which
have been so mum rous II late. Reference
Is also made In The Globes article 70 the
hostile attitude of Russia toward India
snd To England's unpreptred condition
for war.
The TangIs Explained.
PoultDey Bigelow, whose intimate reld'
tions with the highest ofiic.al in Germany
are well known, and who has just returned
10 London after "A say OF several months
in Germany, has, by requs', written the
following on the situation IN Europe:
Russia wants Con,rantinOple and Is
preparing 10 take it Russia cannot sue
ceed in accomplishing tbis desire without
first fehliug Austria She cannot fLht
Austria without fighting Germany at the
same time Russia wants the mouth Of
the Danube river, q desire ~ strange as IL
France should wish d rcOUcupy Louisiana
Russia therefore has one enemy ptrtlcu'
larly IN mind. that is Germany, and in
this hatred Of Germany was born the com
ical friendship brlwteu Russia aud France,
for France means 10 get Alsace- Lorraine
"The gravity OF the pre-eut outl lIok is
not so much iu the fact that Ru-sla and
France inlivdunlly dislike Germany, but
in the fact that TIA are united In a hatred
that absoybs every other las-iOn. That
Fl auce is thirsting for war admits Of scant
doubt to hose who saw lhe delicious be-
bavIor of the French people ia welcoming
! tue Russian sailors at Iuulou and Paris,
nor Is there any doubt that -he is now bet
Ter Et,cd for wlr han sue has ever been.
| Russia son adrd France and was well sat
isf,d with the result When war il de-
A Il. =
Hatred stronger Than Ever.
"The Russian government has now
massed all is active army west OF Mos
cow and the great bulk Ia Poland. II ~
persecuting the German lauguag, and
the Lutheran religion in the Baltic prov
ince-, aud is tanning, rather than allay-
ing, the prevailing hatred for Ger
many. An editor in Poland was
recently threatened with Transports
ton to Siberia because he ven
tured to reprint an impartial article ia
The Century Magazine on the Emperor OF
Germany The editor was told that in
Russia the people did not want u have
the German ruler praised.
"Russla has been observing great
secrecy OF late with regard 20 movements
on her railways Sometimes several days
have passed when all traffic on the roads
has been stopped save that Of the govern
ment. Oddly enough the money she has
been spending on forts and stores has
nearly all been expended against the Ger
man frontier. She knows that she must
settle with Germany before she can get
the Bo-phorus.
"The German emperor meanwhile IL
awake and knows what is ptssing about
him, but he knows also that he has much
to lose aud litle u gain by n successful
| campaign. Gr rman men of business ferl
| this too, and that the next war will be
largely devoted to pulling chcstnuts out
| OF the fire for England.
| "rhe kaiser knowl that In war with
Russia he will be fighting tue battle OF all
| civilized countries, against a power + pre-
senting commercial stagnation, political
| barbarism and religious Intolerance"