Omaha daily bee., 1908-02-15
POWERS In DISCORD
Cloud in the Balkans Disturbs
European Diplomats.
MACEDONIA CAUSES FRICTION
Germany Declines to Longer Take
Part in the Concert
ANOTHER GROUPING OF N rs
Trouble Over Railway Conce :
May Cause New Alignment. E
MANY REFORMS MAY BE DELAY
Sublime Porte VIII Throw Powell
Into wranEIe and Again Take
Advantage of Their
QuarrelinE.
Germany Declines to Longer TAX,
Part in the Concert .
ANOTHER GROUPING OF N
Trouble Over Railway Conoe
May Cause New Alignment,
MANY REFORMS MAY BE DELAY

LONDON, Feb. H.-what is practically
the break up of the European concert on
the Macedonia question has come as a
shock to the ehaucellories OF the continent
and England particularly as a quiet diplo-
matte season has been anticipated. The
assent OF Germany to the management OF
Moroccan affairs by France. the conclusion
Of agreements 20 maintain the statu quo
I'm the Mediterranean and the opening Of
negotiations looking to treaties that should
accomplish a similar purpose with regai
TO the North Sea seemed to make the pos
sbility of differences arising among the
powers remote.
The conferences of the ambassadors at
Constantinople also appeared to be going
on smoothly, when a bomb was thrown
into camp by the announcement made by
Baron Marschall Won Bieberstein,) the Ger
man ambassador that Germany would no
longer act with the other powers in in
sistng that Turkey consent to their de-
mands. As to the cloud that has arisen
between Russia and Austria Hungary over
the projects for railroad extensions in
Macedonia of the latter state the right of
Austria Hungary TO secure a concession for
the NOvipazar railroad line and the justice
of Germany supporting its ally are recog-
nized in England, but Il is considered that
the present time is inopportune for raising
this point.
1t is now said that the official breaking
up Of all these international understandings
viii aggrayate the Macedonian situation.
reopen the whole near east problem, start
a contest for railroad concessions which
may lead to serious results and enable
Turkey to postpone the reform for which
the ambassadors have been working
New Grouping of Powers.
VIENNA, Feb. 14--A new grouping Of
the powers in the near eastern question is
freely predicted by independent politicians
here unless Baron Won Aehrenthal, the
Austro- Hungarian minister OF foreign af-
fairs succeeds speedily in dispelling the
irritation of Russia over the Balgan rail-
road question The situation is considered
in Vienna to be complicated by the alleged
intention OF the Russian government to
ask the sultan of Turkey to grant con-
cGssop for the construction of railroad
line from Raduivatz, in Servia on the
Danube, to Antivari or Ducigno, both sea-
ports OF Montenegro on the Adrlatic, a
project that would connect the Danube
with the Adriatic and would be acceptable
to Italy for commercial reasons. This Rus
sian counter move to the Austrian project
is resented here.
Austria's right to seek concession from
Turkey for the connecting line through the
province of Novipazar is based, it is semi
officially declared here, upon the treaty OF
Berlin. Semi-officially 1t is asserted that
Austria not only has not the right, but 1t
is not even able to plead immediate neigh
borshp to Turkey, as is the case with
Russia.