The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23

The everlasting nightmare of war | in the Balkans, with it's almost in- evitable European conflagration, is still haunting the sleep of the statesmen | of Europe Barely has the danger of Bulgaria attacking Turkey been ward ed off when the joint efforts of the | leading statesmen are again needed to | keep Turkey from sweeping down upon almost defenceless Greece, using as a welcome pretext the Cretan question. It must be said to the credit of Greece, and, especially to the credit of her patriotic and self sacrificing king, that she has done everything to avoid giv- ing offense to her neighbor and the 1 fact that the danger of war still ex ists is the fault of Turkey alone; or, | If we go deeper into the question, the danger of war arises from the fact that | the Turkish government considers It. self justified in looking for encourage ment. if not actual assistance. from Berlin and Vienna.
 Nobody can doubt that Emperor Jo- seph, as well as the Kaiser, would like nothing better than to see Eictor- iouse Turkey keeping the Slav coun- tries around her in a state of con stant alarm and insecurity giving the 1 Germans a much desired chance for un limited commercial and perhaps terri | torial expansion.
 l The plans of Germany, in this re- gard are evidently founded upon a be | lief that Russia is still too weak to l interfere and that that country whic. | was beaten time and again in Man l churia would never dare measu-o <trensth with the mailed fist. The | Kaiser seems to forget that no cor parison can be made between Russia | figh ting a war that was the result o' a small court camarilla ard the same l country as the champion of Panslavisn' tons in a war which every joujik would l consider holy. The Kaiser's sly pol ftics may. after all. have result whic' | he Is not looking for. If war is once more averted the present insolent po- sition of Turkey way lead to a rallyine i of BulRaria, Servia and Montenegr
 into a great Slav league. under Russia- leadership, and in that event lastin ? neace in the Balkans may be lookef for.
 The question of the day in Vienna is whether frozen meat from Argentina is to be allowed importation into Austrin or not The increased cost of meat in the Austrian cities. which was led to 2 number of so-called meat strikers, ie due not to an excessive tariff-for th' | Qut1e6 are nDueTdIe-Dut to lHe lOfB COii- tinuance of tariff wars with Servia an ] Roumania. the chief cattle-raising coun- 'ries in the neishborhood of the mon-
 rchy. During these tariff wars the inn
 art of cattle has been practically pro-
 ibited and the Austrian and Hungarian
 erds have been depleted to such an ex-
 mt that they are no longer sufficient to
 aed the growing population, especially
 n view of the fact that many of the prime animals are exported to Ger
 lany Commercial treaties, permitting
 1e import of a limited quantity of
 laughtered cattle. have this year been
 included. but that with Servia has not
 .t been ratified. and Rumania has so
 'duced her production of cattle during ae long tariff war that she has at
 -esent very few to send.
 The only available source of supply,
 ,erefore, ta make up the deficiency, ould be frozen meat from over the seas. 1t the import of this was unfortunately 'rbidden in the last Ausgleich between
 ustria and Hungary, on alleged ounds of public health Suppressed by ,e agitation the Austrian government 'oO0 tons of Argentine meat to be inn
 ,rted via Trieste and has approached ,e Hungarian government for its con-
 mt, which is considered necessary under ,e terms of the ausgleich but in Hun
 ny the government seems unwilling to 'cede to this request. It is quite pos ble, therefore. that this question of
 reign meat Is destined to become a
 sw cause of disagreement between the
 vo halves of the monarchy.
 Meanwhile 1t is being realized here that
 he trade in frozen meat, if allowed will
 aquire special knowledge andSappliances.
 here is no cold storehouse m Trieste,
 he Austrian railways have no suitable
 -ucks and there are no places for prop
 rly thawing the meat when 1t arrives
 Vienna. A commission. under the aus
 ices of the vienna chamber of com
 nerce and the town council, left here