The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-02
The Perturbed Condition OF the
World.

n Tho Perturbed Condition OF the
World.
n Evidently the summer Of 1905, like that
\ of 1870, is not destined to DO ranked in
4 the category of silly seasons" Indeed,
h the present area Of conflict, commoton
1 and foreboding is much wider than was
H that affected by the Franco-German war.
\ Not only is military catastrophe i'm
4 minent in Manchuria, but the rumbling
4 of q revolution may be heard in European
\ Russia, and omens of internal disorder
or international friction are visible in the
u Ottoman Empire, in Morocco, in Austria
H Hungary and in Scandinavia, while,
h although the recent tension between
|, Germany and France seems for the mo-
4 ment relaxed, it is scarcely likely that the
\ restless ambition Of Emperor WILLIAM
Il II. will long remain qulescent. 1t would
\ surprise no close student of events, if
N the current twelvemonth should figure
\ in history as the "dnnus mirdbuts' which
witnessed not only revival OK Asiatic
prestige, but also the most memorable
example Of a nations regeneration which
| has been beheld in Europe since the
States-General met at Versailles.
There is reason to believe that the
Balfour Government attentive to Lord
KIrcHENER's warning Of the insecurity
4 of British India, may seek to transform
the existing restricted alliance with
\ Japan into q much closer league for
f reciprocal support, which would place at
\ England's disposal an army Of Japanese
I veterans, in the dreaded event of a Rus
sian advance southwark from central
Asia. In spite of the fact that Marquis
ITO formerly advised the Mkado to enter
into an understanding with the Gear, it is
now probable that the Toxic Govern
ment would prefer coalition with Great
| Britain, which, by assuring to Japan
permanent and unchallenged ascendency
in Far Eastern waters, would leave her at
liberty to prosecute her program of ag-
grandizement on the Asatic coast of the
Pacific. The erasure Of Russia from the
list OF Pacific Powers and the insuper-
able obstruction offered by an Anglo
Japanese combination to her procur-
ing q foothold on the Persian Gulf or
Indian Ocean. would compel her to fall
back on her original hope of expansion in
southeastern Europe, hope which
England, at present principally con-
cerned to check the designs imputed to
the German Emperor, might no longer
be disposed to Illustrate. We may be
pretty certain that the Ottoman Sultan,
who ia by no means lacking in shrewd-
ness has begun to measure the probable
her European base, and to calculate the
chances Of his keeping Constantinople
without the help of British warships
His corelgionist, MULAI ABDUL AzIz.
marking the signs that Germany, in con-
sidera ton Of certain assurances may
consent after all to recognize the moral
right Of France to exercise a tutelary
function in the Moroccan domnions, is
doubtless haunted with misgiving lest
IN the fate of the Khedive he may read
his own destiny.
1t is quite within the bounds Of posi-
bility that the ties connecting the Cs-
leithan monarchy with the Kingdom of
Hungary, ties strained already nearly to
thebreaking point, will be snapped during
the present summer, and the ill assorted
union Of the Hapsburg possessions IN
dergo violent disruption. Tho Hun
garian Diet has been prorogled, and the
Ministry I'D interim appointed in the
teeth Of majority of the popular cham
Der, Is called upon to govern under cir
~ VT n,Iin
for any attempt on its part to coerce
delinquent taxpayers or rccalcitrant
conscripts would violate constitutional
guarantees, and might provoke a wide
spread instruction. There have been
OF late indications that in the event of
the disintegration of the dominions of
Z FRANCIS JOSEPH, the German-speaking
provinces would gravitatc quickly to the |
German Empire, and that Italy might
make resolute attempt to incorporate
ATrieste and the Trentino. 1t used to be |
taken for granted that redistribution of |
I the territories tackled together under the |
Hapsburg Crown would be postponed |
until after the decease Of the present |
emperor, but it now looks as if the con-
aututional crisis imminent in Hungary
might precipitate the process.
/ For the first time, also, in many a dec
ade the Scandinavian peninsula has be-
come an object of international attention.
The resentful spirit in which Norway's
secession was discussed by many innu-
lcntial members of the Swedish Riksdag,
when 1t met the other day at Stockholm,
renders it by no means certain that the
coDcillatory program Of King OSCARS