The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-09-17
INDIFFERENCE CLASH LIKELY
Has Sent Back All the
Newspaper Men Who We're
With Him.
TROOPS IN MS PATH
England Seeks 70 Extend Her lnflu.
eaoe North and South Through
the Entire Length
of Africa.

With the nations joining in with the
ears disarmament proposition, Eu-
'ope has not been for years so close
o the verge of general disaster. Dis
0rd, death and crime, seem to have
tuddenly burst forth in all parts OF
he globe.
The assassination of the empress OF
Austria is liable to have a far reach-
ng effect. while the situations in
srete and Africa have assumed such
critical aspects today that all manner
VI gloomy predictions are made.
Taking up Austria's case first, the
I'D emperor, Franz Joseph, is a broken
Town man. His son was murdered in
criminal intrigue and his country is
last going to pieces, and now his wife,
charming, lovely woman. is assas-
'inated without reason.
Several times the emperor has been
IN the point of %abdicating, and this
asst blow may be his end. 1t has oeen
said for years that he is to be the last
emperor of the Austro-Hungarian en-
oire; that at his death or re.ircment
The federation surely would dissolve.
What international complications,
tuch as the disarmament might cause,
40 n can foretell. But it undoubt-
IDLY sooner or later would bring a
bloody strife between two or more
greedy, ayaricious powers, as well as
internal discord between the various
small countries forming the empire,
who have never affiliated nor welded
:heir interests in common.
Little Crete nearly involved Europe
N hostilities last year, and now again
Is burning like an incendiary's torch.
Saturday the admirals Of the powers
tent an ultimatum to the Turkish gov
srnor, giving him but a few hours
Tor the disarmament of everybody on
The island, including even the Turk
ssh regulars. What may result from
this is beyond even the most diplo-
matte guessing. 1t is simply n case
Of hoping for the best and fearing for
he worst.
But the most serious situation has
suddenly developed in Africa, where
the British and Egyptian troops have
won such a tremendous victory over
the dervishes. Even while full details
Of the battle are not yet in. comes the
news of a more critical outlook than
before the fall of Omdurman. 1t is
nothing less than the possibility of a
conflict between England and France
in the heart of Africa. The war corre-
spondents had just time to wire home
that news had reached Khartoum of
the presence of Major Marchard of the
French army with 1000 troops at Fa-
shoda, when General Kitchener or
dered every correspondent back to
Cairo Immediately.
Some begged to be allowed to
plunge into Central Africa ut their
w risk, while others tried in every
way to obtain permission to remain
with the army in some connection. or
arrange means of communication. but
the Sirdar was obdurate and. all the
correspondents were herded together
on a steamer and started back to Cal
70. None is allowed to escape until
| the city is reached, nor send any news
of the impending complications. So
what happens in Central Africa for
the next two or three weeks will be
unknown, save for such information
as the Sirdar chooses to send the Brit
ish government.
The situation is exactly the same as
in America at the time of the French
and Indian wars England seeks to
extend her chain of posts and colonies
north and south through the entire
length OF Africa, from Ciaro to Cape.
town, and France is extending her
lines east and west across Africa from
Congo to the east coast, just as she
tried to close in on the English posts
in America $50 years ago. Warnings
have already been exchanged between
the two governments and it looks now
as If the victorious Sirdar intended tc
advance beyond Khartoum and wipe
out the French. Fashada is $50 miles
up the Nile from Khartoum and just
as strategical u point Us old Fort Du
Quesne.
English gunboats have already
started up the river, ostensibly pursu'
ing the Khalifa. Major Marchand's
troops are practically all natives, vel
armed and under French officers. They
advanced up the Congo and have now
reached the Nile. &.
Then, there is the quarreling Over
the plumber in China, ard all this, witt
the Spanish war just over. is Europe,
answer 10 the proposition for uni
versal peace.