The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-01-10
RUSSIA LEADS EUROPE
Realizing Her Paramount Position in the
Eastern Question.
POGXtTlNG THE KEY TO EASTERN EUROPE
Austria is Uneasy nS 10 Her Suprcm.
acy in ROunnuin. "crvlR nnd
Greece KusSin and Frnuce Strug.
CLING with England and Egypt tor
Supremacy in Abyssinin.
Copyright. 1897. by the New York Sun
Printing and Publishing Company

Copyright. 1897. by the New York Sun
Printing and Publishing Company.
London. Jan. 9.-lt is curious to oh
serve how gradually the European press
Is awakening TO the knowledge of Rus
sia paramount position in the Eastern
question. Yesterday, for instance. the
London Standard gave prominence TO n
communication from its Vienna corre-
spondent in regard To what he describes
u" new departure in the Austro- Hun
garian inrciSn policy. The departure in
sense iS new, but il was announced
anu described in this correspondence
weeks ago.
The Standards correspondent. who
mas good sources of information as Il
fuic, declares very truly that If Russian
prcpondc:ancc Is Ia be allowed i'm any
, FORM whatever in Bulgaria and Con
siant.noEle ii will not he possible for any
| length of time to maintain Austria's
supremacy in Roumania, Servla and
Greecc. and on the Eastern shore of the
Adr'atic or Gulf of Salonica
AUSTRIA WILL SUFFER.
She Will in the end be cheated out of
her snare of influence in Constantinop,e.
as well as OF the compensation granted
her for silently looking on while Russia
pockets the key to the East of Europe.
Inat process of cheating. or whatcvc,
other term may he applied to II, has
aS matter of fact within the knnwl-
edge of the readers of tho Sun. alr,,dv
gone a great deal further than the
standard seems 10 know. Russia. con-
currently with her direct operations in
Constantinoplc. has been steadily work
! inE in Romania. the small Kalkin States
ana Greece, and ir a crisis should come
tomorrow ii would probably find all
these arraigned on the side Of RUSSIA.
II Is merely Il case of worshipping the
r!SlhE sun. Roumania for some time
past has been virtually an ally of the
Triple Alliance powers. but her attitude
recently has caused great deal of an
Xiety in Vienna.
WILL TURN RUSSIAN
Should it really prove true" said
conservative Roumanian statesman TO
the Stan dard correspondent the other
day. that England and Austria have
abandoned Constantinople as no longer
desirable against the growing power of
Russia in the E,ack sea, we Roumanians
should certainly turn Russian from the
KING downwards. With Russia SUI
pfemc III whatever form you like in Con-
stantinople. il would be suicide for us
not TO be Russian heart and SOUL
RUSSIA has certainly taken earnestly
IN hand the task of de;aching Roumania
from the Triple Alliance, ana beyond
doubt she will succeed. Her methods
are but a duplication of those success
fully followed elsewhere. Newspapers
are sprinGlnS into existence, the editors
and contributors of which are men hith-
crtO quite unknown. who are maintained
out of funds OF mysterious origin, They
are adroiuy edited and insidously anti
Austrian. In the villages Russian
agents masquerade as Socialists. whose
faNoritc demand is for universal suffrage
which, in the opinion of the statesman
referred 10, will result in the destruction
of the constitutional political edifcc
"a l,,-
King Charles, and possibly, Of the dy-
nasty itself
AS TO ABYSSINIA.
An equally interesting contest for
supremacy IS proceeding in Abyssnia
between Russia and France on one side
and England and Egypt on the other
Emperor Menelek Is beginning to feel
his position embarrassing. After de-
featinE Italy in n square fight he natu-
rally concluded he was very great
man. and it pleased him to have the big
European powers send special envoys 10
court his friendship ana make him pre-
scnts. But the plcasantest part OF this
business is pretty well over and he has
now got to utilize all the cleverncss he
possesses, which is n great deal, to-
avoid taking sides.
The suspicion that his new friends are
prepared TO gobble him up whenever the
operation can be performed with rca-
SOnaDle safety ana minimum cost does
not add to Mcnelek'S enjoyment OF his
position. Russo French influence for the
moment prevails with the result that
Menelek has refused the help of the
Anglo Egyptian army to smash up tho
Mahdi and the Dervish hordes next au-
tumn, but politicians with n sporting
turn OF mind are disposed to accept odds
In favor of England's ultimate victory.
She has been badly beaten in the dip!o-
matte fight in Europe. but she has n way
of winning in semi civilized countries
particularly in Africa, which some pow
ers have not yet learned because they
are mostly new to the business.
CECIL RHODES AGAIN.
The Right Hon. Cecil Rhodes. cx-Prc-
mier of Cape Colony. eX-dictator of
South Africa. and organizer OF the fli-
clustering raid into the Transvaal, ma IL
by DR.. Jameson and winkcd at by III"
British Government is on his way 10
England after n triumphant pToer cgs
through the colony. Rhodes Is in the
position of n prisoner out on hail. but,
according to long reports of hi' recent
doings i'm South Africa. he Is :hc hero OF
war and diplomacy and Il popular dar-
ling The whole dcmonsJra,: N of the
British in South Africa, who Year ago
pretended to disavOw sympathy With the
raid into the territory of peaceful
neighbor and justified the strenuous
policy pursued by President Kruger and
his sturdy burghers responsible FOR the