Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-02-16

! peror was induced to abdicate. The
king of AMMAN was deposed by the
French. The Dalai Lama was driven
from his capital and forced to resign.
from Colombia.
Three new Kingdoms have appeared;
Norway in 1906. Bulgaria in 1907: Mon
tenegro in 1910. Two OF these were
already nations; indeed, Norway also
already had a QEasi-national existence.
But the commonwealth of Australia,
consolidated in 1900 is new; so is the
state established this last year as the
Union of South Africa. The Republic
OF Cuba and the Republic of Panama
are new. While two Balkan principal
tiles have become kingdoms, one of the
lberian Kingdoms Portugal. has
become a republic. There is no longer
a sovereign of the Independent State
of the Congo. There is no longer either
empire or kingdom of Korea, nor does
the very name of that hermit
province of Chosen.
The Austrian scepter has been ex-
tended over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Belgium has annexed the Congo and
the tiny no-man's-land known as
M~Oresnet. Brazil has got the rich rub
Der country, Acre. The United States
mas practically (though not formally)
annexed Panama. and has set up Il re-
ce1vership in San Domingo. Japan. be-
sides anneXing Korea. has established
itself In southern Manchuria. Russia.
orlVen out OF southern, is more firmly
than ever established in northern MAN.
churia. France and Spain have had
their peculiar rights in Morocco rccog-
n1Zed, and Russia and England have
partitioned to themselves spheres OF i'm
f1uence in Persia. Turkey has lost it's
tltular hold OH Bulgaria and etains
only the most fragile sovereignty over
Crete.
In one particular it, may be asserted
that the decade just closed is more re-
than any 10 years that could
De MT upon: On a startling number of
occasions has there arisen an interna-
tional crisis which might, almost by the
turn of a hand have led to devastating
war. AS these instances. happily, dc
not eventuate in bloodshed, they have
most people, though it will not be diff
cult to remember the acute tension
which at their respective moments they
caused in countries affected. The most
notable among these occasions were the
Venezuelan crisis of 1902. the Dogger
bank incident of 1903, the Moroccan
controversy of 1905, the Japanese inn
migration excitement of 1906, the Casa
blanca incident OF 1907, and the Bal
kan crisis of the winter OF i9O7-OS.
The complete story OF the Venezuelan
crisis has never been told, but it is now
possible to say that the seriousness of
the situation of 1902 was no less than
that created in 1895 by President Cleve-
lands belligerent message. Great Brit
ain and Germany, later Joined by Italy,
has established a peaceful blockade in
Venezuelan waters. captured VeneZue-
Ian ships, and fired on Puerto Cabello.
While. this time. the protest of the
United states government against n
possible infringement OF the Monroe
doctrine was made silently. it was made
so vigorously that the blockade was
withdrawn and President Roosevelt
was himself asked to arbitrate the
questions at issue. On his d%eclination
the case went to n Hague court of
arbitration. But if the activities of the
German fleet in the Caribbean had not
been restricted after the digestion of a
personal message of which the kaiser
was put in receipt, Admiral Dewey,
(who, curiously enough, wa at practice
maneuver with his fleet in the Carrib-
beam might have had his revenge for
a certain embarrassment which threat-
/! ened him in Manila bay.
The Dogger bank incident was the
funniest thing that ever threatened to
put the spark to AN International DOW
der magazine. Everybody remembers
how the Russian Admiral Rojestvenski,
starting around the world with a gigan-
tic armada to meet the Japanese. on
the foggy night of October 81, 1904, ran
into a fleet OF English trawlers and
fired on the innocent fishermen. sink
ing one boat and killing two men, and
how he and his officers afterward de-
clared that two torpedo BOATS had APP
peared from among the fishers and had
fired six shots on the Russian ships and
wounded a priest. When the crippled
fishing fleet returned to Huh with it's
story and it's dead. England was tre-
mendously excited. and there was every
prospect of immediate wan with Rus
STA. 1t was only the swift and we'll
calculated diplomacy of Delcasse that
prevented it. France. as an ally of
Russia. was vitality interested. for war
by England on Russia would have
dragged France, us Russia's ally, into
war. ON the other hand. Frances new
ly cemented rapprocheinent With Eng
Downing street. One OF the great
debts which Europe and the world will
never pay is the obligation that it owes
to this able minister. The absurd and
yet terrible episode was put for set
Element in to the hands of a mixed
commission organized under The
Hague court provisions.
In 1904 a naturalized American citi-
zen, Ian Perdicaris, was captured by
the Moorish bandit Raisuli, II the
United States government found it
necessary to send Rear Admiral Chad
wick on the battleship Brooklyn to en-
force his release. Singularly enough,
it was just 100 years before tina Cap
tain Decatur in the Philadelphia frigate
had fought the Barbary pirates. Mo-
rocco was in chaos; no sultan was able
to enforce authority, and Franc had
undertaken the oversight of the land.
England in 1904, followed by Italy and
Spain. recognized the paramount inter-