The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-08
Alarming Condition of Affairs in
Europe.
ENGLISH NAVAL STRENGTH
Russia Wants Constantinople and Will
Take 1t.
France Is Said to De Thirsting for
War and Is Well Fitted for IT.
Mysterious Movements on the
Railways in Russia-Everything
Seems Ready for Trouble.

London, Dec. THE important dis
patch from Vienna, which the Times
printed this morning, setting forth that
the Russian government had declared
it imperative that the Kilia arm of
the Danube be made navigable, the
object of which demand was to secure
the exemption of the Kilia branch from
the control of TIE Danube commission,
served to attract renewed attention to
the situation of affairs in Europe,
which would need only a spark to kim
die a fame.
That the various countries are fully
alive to the difficulties ahead, there
can be no doubt, and numerous Incl
dents that have come to light within
the past few days, indicate that all the
powers are making preparations to
meet any emergency.
In connection with these recent de-
velopments the statement made today,
on the authority of the Westminster
Gazette, that five new battleships, a
first-class cruiser, and number of
smaller vessels had 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 a revival of a state of things
produced by the Crimean war, and
says the recent demand that the Kilia
mouth of the Danube be made navi-
gable is most alarming and ugly, and
portends of the trouble of which rumors
he 1ro hnn rxf Iof
At the request of the Associated Press
correspondent, Poultney Bigelow
whose intimate relations officials of
Germany is we'll known, and who has
just returned to London after a stay
of several months in Germany, wrote
the following on the situation in Eu-
rope:
Russia wants Constantinople, and
is preparing to take it. Russia cannot
succeed in accomplishing this desire
without first fighting Austria. She cam
not fight Austria without fighting Ger
many at the same time. Russia wants
the mouth of the Danube-desire as
strange as if France should wish to
reoccupy Louisiana. Russia. therefore,
has one enemy particular in mind
that is Germany. In this hatred of
Germany was born comical friend
ship between Russia and France, for
France means to get back Alsace-Lor-
aine. That France is tllirSting for war
admits of scant doubt to those who
saw the delirious behavior of the
French people in welcoming the Rus
sian sailors at Toulon and Paris; nor
is there any doubt she is now
better fitted for war than she has ever
been. Russia has sounded France, and
lis well satisfied with the result When
war is declared, the two are one, army
and navy The Russian government
has now masSed all it's active army
west of Moscow and the great bulk in
Poland is prosecuting those of German
language and Lutheran religion in the
Baltic provinces, and is tanning, rather
than allaying, the prevailing hatred of
Germany. Russia has been observing
great secrecy of late in regard to her
movements on the railways. Some
times several days have passed when
all traffic on the roads has been
stopped save for the government. Oddly
enough, the money she has been spend
| ing upon forts and stores has nearly all
been expended against the German
frontier She knows she must settle
with Germany before she can get the
Bosphorus. The German emperor,
meanwhile, is awake and knows what
| is passing about him, but he knows,
also, he has much to lose and little to
gain by an unsuccessful campaign. Ger
man business men feel this, too, and
that the next war will be largely de-
voted to pulling chestnuts out of the
| fire for ENGLAND