Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09

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In order to raise sufficient dust for this
, purpose Italy has Intentionally drawn
the other powers into the quarrel. 1t is
hardly to be doubted that she has done
so with the knowledge and assent of Rus
STA.
Real Cause Of Irritation.
The root Of the present trouble Is the
fact that Russia is at present engaged
upon two distinct and irreconcilable poll
cies. Still smarting from her Austrian de-
feat, she saw in the war a chance of
drawing Italy away from the triple alli-
ance. She also saw an opportunity of
clearing the Dardanelles for her warships
and of confirming to her Use certain nee
essary spheres of influence in the north of
Asia Minor. Now, she could only hope to
incur the hostility of Germany by the
former policy. She could only achieve
the latter by concerted action with her
western 'neighbor. With singular want of
foresight, she attempted to do both at
once. to the bewilderment OF the other
powers and at a serious risk of causing a
general European confiagration. France,
in particular. was completely mystified,
and sudden access OF suspicion coloreo
the relations between the two countries.
Germany has almost equally far-reach-
ing aims to secure. The time has come.
she thinks. when her position and right
in Asia Minor. Syria and Mesopotam!a
must be regularized. Early last year she
made nearly successful attempt to come
to an arrangement with Russia behind the
back of Turkey. These negotiations were
betrayed. and as an almost necessary con-
sequence from that time to this the mask
of German friendship with the Ottoman
government has been dropped. This time
Germany is determined to carry through
| her program with or without the consent
of Turkey, and Marshall Won Bieberstein
left Constantinople because Germany in
tends for the future to use other weapons
than those of which Marshall is so great
a master.
Austria Expects Civil War.
In Austria it is now an almost absolute
certainty that civil war will break out
the very moment the aged Emperor
Francis Joseph dies. an event which, as
he himself said when he heard of the
=, death of the King of Denmark, cannot
now be many months off Personally
Francis Joseph has forgiven and forgot
ten the unspeakable indignities hurled at
his head in the lower house at Budapest.
but his successor is firmly decided to show
the treacherous Magyars that they must
either keep faith with Austria and con-
tribute their share of the national eX-
penses or lose their present independence
and become a mere province.
That the Magyars cannot be crushed
except by force of arms is a foregone
conclusion, but it is equally certain that
they will be speedily defeated. for not
even in Hungary are they popular, be-
cause of their constant tyrannizing of all
other nationalities within the kingdom,
and these down-trodden people number
| H. coo, 900 out of the 10000, GOO people in
| the kingdom.
The rest of the population of Hungary
| is made up OF Slovaks, Crovats. Serbs,
Roumanians. or rather Transylvanians,
Ruthenians, Germans etc; and since all
| the franchise and all the political power
are by dint of political gerrymandering
monopolized in the hands Of certain cor
| rupt Magyar machines, parliament and
| the political element at Budapest in nc
sense of the word represent the people OF
Hungary as whole. Far from It, for
wonderful to relate, the antagonism of
the Hungarian nation at large to the
Magyar legislature and administra ton at
Pesth nearly caused a rebellion imme-
diately after the insult to the emperor.
Industry of the Croats.
| The Croats are an intensely Industrious
nation, which the Hungarians are not,
and they have been noted for two charac-
| teristics. One is their answering devo-
ton and loyalty to the reigning house of
Hapsburg, and the other is their deep
emperor dies, should the Magyars put
into execution their long and loudly
promised project OF proclaiming Hun
gary's complete separation from Austria
| a separation as thorough as that of Nor
way from Sweden-or should they at
| tempt to stir up any trouble against
Vienna they would find themselves over
whelmed by the 1900 600 people of nom
Magyar races in Hungary; people who
abhor everything that is Magyar. and