The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-26
.EUROPE'S EYE IS
 TURNED ID PARIS Change of Government Is Cause of Uneasiness ARABIAN QUESTION Is Discussed by Professor Musil of Vienna-Russia's Next Move
 Will be in Turkey

Berlin, March 25-(Special 1.-The politl- cal eyes of all Europe are directed to- wards Paris, where the new cabinet of M.
 Monis has added q new factor for good or evil to those who hold our future in country are eagerly waiting to see what | French foreign politics are going to be. One thing is sure, the change of gov ernment in France has caused uneasiness | everywhere and nowhere probably more | than in the Kaiser's capital. Just now we Germans, government as we'll as the | leading papers, are pretending to be ab
 solutely calm and unaffected. but we are
 very much conscious of the fact that | what the press calls "thc resurrection of
 the situation for Germany and a paper
 like Die Post of Delcasse is the domi-
 mating feature has not hestated to say
 openly that it Is the duty of the Kaiser's
 government to be ready for all kinds of
 unpleasant surprises from the man who
 created the friendship between France
 and England. Fortunately for Germany
 our minister of foreign affairs, Herr Yea
 Kiderlen- Waechter, is probably the only German diplomat who is in any way
 match for M. Delcasse. whom he greatly
 resembles in belligerent strength of char acter. Like the French minister he
 thrives in an atmosphere of controversy
 and Is said to be overjoyed at the pros-
 poets of many a hot fight with his col
 league on the left bank of the Seine. | In Vienna, too, the change of cabinet
 in France is interpreted to spell "break-
 CTS ahead'' before long, and for seeing
 that he was likely to get rest later on
 the Austrian minister of foreign affairs, Count Von Aehrenthal, has wisely gone | away on two months vacation now. 1 No Austrian minister ever worked hard CT than Count Aehrenthal has done ever
 since he was called from life of luxu- rious ease at St. Petersburg to labor of the most arduous kind at Ballplatz,
 where he has helped to make European
 history from the very day of his arrival,
 always fighting bitter and deadly ene-
 mics on all sides.
 | At home in the delegations and with tho opposition and coalition in Hungary and
 abroad with the opponents of the Bosnian annexation, where he even had to risk | the peace of Europe. At last victory
 came to Count Aehrenthal all along the l line, and he left his work In the con sciousness of having achieved a distinct success. If he consulted his own wishes he would probably retire entirely from
 the heavy burden of office which has rested on his shoulders. But the country
 and his sovereigns will not allow this
 step for they feel that they cannot spare | t,oc In hn lar n
 European politics for over two years and
 raised the position of Austria-Hungary enormously.
 | Count Aehrenthal looks upon M. Del casse as a man most dangerous to Flu
 ropean peace. and Austria sincerely de- sires peace, having every reason imagina- ble to be satisfied with the present polit- | ical situation.
 | No man has the right to speak with moro authority on the. present Arabian question than Prof. Alois Musil of Vien- ma, who for nearly 20 years lived among the Bedium practically as one of them, and whom I have just had a talk with as
 he passed through Berlin returning from a series of lectures at the University of Copenhagen.
 ''If you ask me-" the professor said, 'rhow much. Bedium cares for 8 member of the Turkish parliament, I must say that he considers good camel vastly more valuable and useful. The desert governs the Bediums, who laugh at the idea that any parliament in Constantine pie has any right to lay down laws to them.
 The present campaign in the desert will be and must be disastrous to the Turks. who will never accomplish anything in Yemen, although they have 10000 men, the pick of the Turkish army, 1t Is said, there. I hope for the Turks that these troops are not the pick of their army, for they desert by the score every day and return to their tribes.
 'The secret of this war In Yemen is that the Arabs will not accept the Sultan in Constantinople as Kalif and descendant of Mahomet, and the two Arabian chief tains who are the leaders of the war are, therefore, fighting "holy war" In these circumstances the Turkish campaign is hopeless The Turkish troops are bound to pass a mountain range of S400 feet be- fore they can reach the two chiefs, and
 in the winter months 1t is bitterly cold there. Further, the Turkish officers do not know the country, and are not in possession of even a man. The wells are distant from one another. The cases are the only hope of the troops, but in tho
 
 wants of greater force
 lover and over again the Beduins will attack the Turkish troops, rob them of their provisions and disappear. They will poison the wells by throwing camel cargo of dead grasshoppers into them. know myself the terrible poisoning which follows ouenching ones thirst with that water. And yet it would be an easy mat ter to pacify the Arabs if the system itself were not as bad as bad can be. If only Turkey would keep her promise and con- clude an alliance with the tribes l know how easily it can be done. Alliance and peace with the Beduin is the only solu- ton for Turkey in Arabia" -
 Russia's most political move will be In Turkey. Of this no one who attentiveiy follows the game of international politics has any serious doubt. The clash is pct far off. The cabinet troubles in Conste\l- tinople rendered the moment unpropitioAr for Russian action, but the crisis hsN only been delayed, not hindered. Say what you will, a feeling among the Young Turks has been growing steadily that Russia, protectress of the Balkans, whose political aims-consecrated by religious roission-cannot be voluntarily abandoned, i'd the unioue enemy of the Ottoman Elm nire. power and race. She represents tfe crescent against the cross. One may ob- feet that Russia harbors no designs against Young Turkey, nay. that she positively desires the we'll being of the latter. But facts are stronger than words