The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-01-10
SAVED EUROPE'S PEACE
Retirement Of Dr. BIowitz, the Lon
dor Tines Paris Man.

London, Jan. 6.-The Candid Friend
says that M. de BlowitZ mas resigned
h Paris correspondence Of the Lon
don Times and retired and that he has
been succeeded by Arthur Fullerton, an
American. De Blowitz is an Austrian
by birth, though b. naturalization he
is a citizen Of France, where he has re-
sided for the greater part of his life.
He began his career as a teacher, hav-
ing been appointed professor Of Ger
man at the Lycee of Tours, and after
wards to similar positions at Limoges,
Poitiers and Marseilles. Taking up the
study of foreign politics he entered the
field of journalism, and in 1871 became
special correspondent Of the London
Times. He has o celebrity by many
Journalistic achievements. In, 1875 he
revealed the intention of the German
military party to undertake a second
invasion of Trance and he sem the
treaty of Berlin to the London Times
before it was signed. Among those
whom he has interviewed We're the
Comte de Chanbord, Bismarck, Theirs,
Gambetta, the sultan, the king Of
Roumania, Marquis Tseng, Jules Ferry
and Leo XIII.
Sometimes M. de Blowitz knew he
had been able to prevent wide-wasting
war. Had he not been on the alert,
V1gilant and president, a general war
would have broker out in 1875. The
German military party tool the bit be-
tween it's teeth and decided that an
immediate war with france was neces-
sary. The republic was becoming too
strong. Therefore, there must be a
new invasion. Paris was to be reoccu-
pied, for twenty years Germany was
to be paid a tribute of $1O0, 600, 900 a
year, the security for which was to be
taken in the permanent occupation of
h'ranrh nitinS hu Carr,oy, orr ,.-; I, o,~
and the compulsory limitation Of the
French army.
Prince Bismarck, who opposed the
scheme, but opposed it in vain, sud-
denly remembered that in M. de Bio
WITT there was a power whose help he
could evoke in the interest of the gen.
eral peace. The way he went about it
was artful and characteristic. NJ. de
Radowitz, on the authorization Of Bis
marck. revealed secretly to M. de Con
taut BirOn the plan of the military
party in all it's details. M. de Gontaut
Biron sent, it at once in cipher to the
Due Decazes, and the duke, of course,
sent for M. de Blowitz. Unless they
could get him to tell all their Informal
count upon M. de BlowitZ. He at once
undertook to deliver france by pub
fishing the whole Internal plot in the
Times.
For a brief season the powers Of
darkness enthroned in Printing House
square refused to believe the story
told by their Ithuriel at Paris. But
1thuriel was not to be baffled by a
mere editor. Faced with proofs Of the
correctness az his information the OPP
position Of Printing House square col
lapsed, the fateful news was published,
and oor miserable Won Moltke and
all his men Of war saw their porten-
tous scheme collapse like a pricked
windbag. For when NJ. de Blowitz told
the story the Russian car put his
heavy foot down upon the design and
peace has reigned In Europe ever
since.
That was not the only occasion on
which NJ. de Blowitz stood between
Europe and a bloody war. He acted as
an angel Of peace when the peril which
threatened, menaced, not France, but
England. with war. He averted war
early in 1875 by what he wrote; he
saved peace later in the same year by
refusing to write.