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PACT 70 AID TIE czAR
From varied but authoritative.
sources comes the intelligence hat
should thearevolution a Russiagreacll
aSpredominant stage the Cars autos
racy there win ne maInta4ned by G
many acting IN concert with Austria
hungary. The essential conditions
tof the agreement, which; It is said.
was settled Upon by the Emperors Of
Germany and Austria at the sehon
br1inn interview, are ottlinad5by Alex
andre UIar In an article msLe Journal
lot paris, called New Holy All
ance.
The iniattve asgtaken by the Ger.
mansKaiser, but 1t needgnot be sun
Eposed that either he or Francis p
seph Is actuated purely by disIntsr.
tested motives. They cannotaford TO.
see the establishment ola great denr
locracy of the West, between which
German autocracy, whether in Bef-
lin or Vienna would gradually be.
of existence. They could
mot sufrer, either, that Russian POLAND
should win, a measure of autonomy
(which might lead to a resuscttatlon
Of national spirit among the Poles of
Germany and Austria: This question
would be: an excuse for intervention
should the revolution develop To
alarming proportions in Russia Ger,
man and Austrian troops would.
march ON Warsaw, andebe eventually
used to crush the democracy in Rvs
lsia. as the Russian armies broke the
hack OF the-for a time successful
Hungarian rising in 1859.
According to NJ U1ar, should Rllz
sian autocracy be successfully main.
tanned through Austro4German inter;
vention, Germany's eyes wouldabe GOV.
letously fixed on the Baltic provinces.
which are German now in almost ey
erythtng but ownership. Ever since
the Algeciras Conference shut her out
of Northern Africa and the AngloJap,
anese understanding made colombo.
Ition impossible in the Far East, tho
Idea OF finding room for expansion.
nearer home has been taking root in
IGermany and has become an unac,
knowledged but accepted policy. Tie
fact is known, NJ. Ular says, to every
body who has the d OF the Kaiser,
Official reputation Notwithstanding.
M. uIar's statement is confirmed
in part by two semt.oticial papers OF
LIST. Petersburg. The Noyoe Vrymya
says that the Gear has been inform
ed Of the deliberations of the Empe-
rors at schonbrunn, and has agreed
that Germany and Austria should IT,
.~Etervene in Poland by an armed force
In the event of his finding himself un:
able to maintain the present centrale
list regime, and that the three Empe.
rors should act in concert in order to
maintain the status quo of their re;
spectiye possessions.
In the Russia Of st Petersburg, a
usually we%lIinformed writer who
signs himself "Diplomattcus" asserts
that the Austro-Hungartan Govern
ment, replying to a formal inquiry
from Berlin, declared that, in view Of
the possibility of Galfcia and Hun.
gary being infected by the agrarian
disorders now prevalent across the
Russian frontier, active interference
i'm Russian affairs, for the purpose Of
suppressing or combining the agrarian
movement, might appear desirable.
provided that Russia-Prussian, rela-
tions AFFORD a series of ample preco.
dents for such intervention, should i
be decided upon. Furthermore, Count
Pototskt, Niceroy of GalicIa, who Is
als6 one OF the largest land holders in
Russia, has three army corps at his
command with which to suppress
agrarian OF strike disorders.
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