Arizona republican., 1893-12-08
A WAR CLOUD. European Affairs Un-
 pleasantly Mixing.
Russia Wants the Mouth
 of the Danube.
The Strange Friendship Be-
 tween France and the Bear.
Germany Holds What Both Want,
 the Key to the Bosphorus.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
 LONDON, Dec. 7.-An important dis patch from Vienna which the Times printed this morning setting forth that the Russian government declared 1t imperative that Kilia, an arm of the Danube, be made navigable, the object of which demand was to secure the ex. emption of the Kilia branch from the control of the Danube commission, served to attract renewed attention to the situation in Europe, which would need only spark to kindle into flames. That the various countries are fully alive to the difficu ahead there can be no doubt, and numerous incidents that have come to light within the past few days indicate that all the powers are making preparations to meet any emergency.
 In come :tion with these recent developments statement made today on the authority of the Westminster Gazette that five new battleships, first-class cruiser and 8 number of smaller vessels have been ordered to augment the British navy is not with out significance.
 The Globe tonight commenting on the Times dispatch asks if we are on the eve of revival of the state of things which produced the Crimean war. It says: "Russa's demand that the Xii lla mouth of the Danube be made navigable, is most alarming and con- firms the portents of trouble which have been so numerous Of late." At the request of an Associated Press correspondent, Poultney Bigelow, whose intimate relations with the highest of fcials of Germany is well known, and | who has just returned to London after a stay of several months in Germany, wrote the following on the situation in Europe: Russia wants Constantipople and is preparing to take It. Russia can not succeed in accomplishing this de- sire without first fighting Austria. She cannot fight Austria without lighting Germany at the same time. Russia wants the mouth of the Danube, a de- sire as strange as if France should wish to re-occupy Louisiana. Russia there i fore has one enemy particularly in mind, and that is Germany.
 In this hatred of Germany WAS born the friendship between Russia and 1 France, for France means to get back Alsace and Lorraine. That France IS thirsting for war admits scant doubt to those who saw the delirious behavior of 1 hn in Russian sailors at Toulon and Paris, nor is there any doubt that she is now better fitted for war than she has ever l been.
 Russia sounded France and was we'll satisfied with the result. When war is declared the two are one, army and navy. The Russian government has now massed ell her active army west of Moscow and the great bulk in Poland is prosecuting the German language and Lutheran religion in that province and is flaming rather than allaying the prevailing hatred of Germany.
 Russia has been observing great secrecy of late in regard to the move ments ot railways. Some times severa days have passed when all traffic on the roads has been stopped save that of the government. Oddly enough the money she has been spending upon forts and stores has nearly all been expended along the German frontier. She know: she must settle with Germany before she can get the Bosphorus. The Ger man emperor meanwhile is awake anc knows what is passing about him, but knows also that he has much to lose and little to gain even by successful campaign. German business men feel this too and that the next war will bt largely devoted to pulling chestnuts ou of the fire for England.