The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-04-19
New Hope Of HIS Promises.
Fulfilled Drop TO Earth.
KINGS INTIMATE FRIENDS
Edward ard Carlos Meet as Jolly Good
Companions and Not For Olplo-
matte Purposes The Marcel
Provost Case In Berlin. VS.
BY MAX ORnLD.

ID INkA<A ~ 4eI<A]A1t
(Special Cable to The Times. Dispatch.
Copyright, 1909
PARIS, April 1S.!-When the now IA
NOUS Russo-Austrian note to the sultan
Of Turkey on the subject Of the reforms
to be Immediately carried out IN the
Balkan provinces was sent to that In
erable potentate, assurances we're given s''
that d day would not be lost IN giving WIN
satisfaction to the wish OF Russia ana
Austria, and. for that matter OF the rest resi-
Of Christian Europe. Il /,
b AT last, we said, we seem to be on the
eve Of Turkey living in peace and hap
plness with her vassals. There l''rS were 'i
some incredulous people, however, who who
thought that this was too good II to 9 be pc
true, and who said:
..rhe willy old villain is at his old game anne
again: Y ~. 1, Y. Y
An sure enough he Isl # III 4
Nothing has been done; nothing is be Pc
ling done. and nothing will be done.
Austria is poweress, France r IN does does not not
care England could not do the WORK We *.
alone, and Russia who is| the only l'oHer
that could turn Turkey out OF Europe 2 Iltt
is afraid OF complications. &
Austria Hungary has quite enough to 40
to look after her own affairs.
The difficulty of that country mas y
been the extraordinary number and VI
tally Of smaller nationalltle oyer !" II
she holds sway. - 3.
& It IS her inheritance from the DAYS q
ina Holy Roman Empire, when Inc n A
OF the Western Caesars was regarded
through Western Ctiristendom as the
representative OF H eaven In temporal
affairs; when he and the Pope were re ev-5
lrything. s N y 55i \, q - 81
Tho F,nperors OF Austria were the gu! sue
cessors OF those western rulers, and now.
though their universal realm Is go uluoh
limited 1t has required all their tins I'M ana ..
efforts to keep. their power over sucn s. 81
yergent nationaltles ns Hun ARA.
Germans, Czechs and slavs, to say noun ".
ing OF all the other races IN the more a1 y
remote Provinces OF the Empire.
Even since the untimely death OF the
crown Prince Of Austria one Of the most
.m,,urtcnt question Of Europe has p pee
5.,What will happen when the pradent oio
Austrian Emr error d es = FhsS4
MI a. because the situation Of Austria
has long been so critical that It IS IN
teresting to observe the wisdom OF the
venerable Emperor In choosing MS nc"
Prime NJ mister, a man whom the states
men OF Europe regard as possibly the
savior Of that distracted empire.
Herr Won Koerber, a, mere bourgeois Of 4
fetal, may succeed in holding the true
mower OF a state where the aristocracy
are so Jealous of their rights. and IN or
ganizlng political parties on such such lines ,t
that the Austrian Empire may survive
even the death Of an emperor whose per-
sonal influence has long been REGARDED e.
as the only bond OF union among Its!
Earring elements. a q K # II.
Kings Boom Companions. .
Many journalists and other people
would haveit that the visit OF King Ed
ward OF England to King Carlos Of
Portugal meant business, and that the
probable result Of It would be the cess
sion OF Delngoa Bay to England. III
First Of all, since England has annexed