The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-09

relative rank to Berlin as a capital as Is
 now borne by Dresden or Munich.
 "As for Austria, she has long had her
 eye on the port of Salonica. She has
 only one port, and that isn't very
 good one, on the Adriatic. Now, if she
 could get Salonica, 1t would give her a
 splendid port on the Aegean sea and en-
 able her to become g. maritime power in
 the Mediterranean. By the annexation
 of Herzegovina and Bosnia she has al- ready pushed down in the direction of
 Salonica, and a railroad from Salonica
 already runs up toward the Austrian frontier. Another thing, she doesn't
 want Servia to get hold of Salonica, for that would give that kingdom an out
 let to the sea and increase her power and importance to a degree which would be distasteful to Austria, Aus tria's coquetting with Germany is un- doubtedly with view to trying once again to get by diplomacy what she could not get by force of arms-a foot hold in German affairs. Also, Austria would like to have Venice once more in her possession; she gave up venice hardly, and has ever since wished it
 back. Italy wants Tripoli because it is
 on the African coast, opposite her own
 possessions, and if she doesn't take 1t,
 France probably will. Italy Is afraid of France, though she really has little
 cause to be at present, and dreads to
 see the French extend their possessions
 on the North African coast until they
 arrive at Tripoi over against her own Sicily. To control the Adriatic would be for Italy to keep Austria shut out | from the seas, and that is the reason she desires some strong position on the eastern side of the Adriatic sea.
 ''The position of France is sufficiently indicated in what I have said in the summary.
 "As to Greece and the Balkan states, l there comes in other elements which | may upset all the schemes and calcula- tions of the great powers. There is a l strong movement on foot for a federa- | ton of Roumania, Bulgaria and Servia, and l should not be at all surprised to | see this federation brought about and | joined by Greece. At present the Bal
 kan states are playing fast and loose with the czar. They have to do 1t in
 the matter of self preservation at pres- l SHl, DuL let tie bdlhdIl SldtSS eilid | Greece become united, as they might under the protection of some great
 power like England-and by protection
 mean protection for the purposes of
 unification only; protection against any armed intervention of Russia to pre- vent their federation--and Turkey would go out of Europe in short order,
 and new power, one not to be despfsed | by those of western Europe, would 1 come into existence. This, of course
 would be to the disadvantage of Russia whose objective point is forever the l shores of the Golden Horn. But know
 that such union is in the minds and l the hearts of the peoples and the rulers | of the Balkan states, and that lately | there has been a strong idea gaining | ground in Greece that such federation is the only practical solution of the
 eastern question, which would leave the
 peoples interested autonomous nations This contemplated federation is not 8
 federation such as you have here in the l United States between the various | states, but some sort of a mutual pro-
 tective arrangement like the old South 1 German federation before the Franco Prussian war"-New York Press.