The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16
FEELING OF WAR IS RAPIDLY SPREADING Come Sooner or Later in Spite of Grey's Words OLD SHIP IS RELIC King and Queen to Use Barge Used by William Mathematician
 Horse Show Opens at
 Olympia Tomorrow
OLD SHIP IS RELIC
By PHILIP EvERETv

Sir Edward Grey's reassuring words In parliament some three months ago that England's relations with all European powers, and more especially with Ger many, were friendly, the feeling is rapidly spreading that the present period of armed peace with It's continual unrest and changing ambassadors, must sooner or later end with a great war in which England will be forced to take sides.
 Practically every thinking Englishman has a feeling that ali Europe is living on powder magazine, and thus cannot expect to live quietly. This condition of fear will Increasingly become the pre- valent note. It will grow with increasing armaments, and 1t will very shortly be the normal condition Of all Europe, fear interchangeable only with panic and ter TOT.
 It will come in waves, and these waves will succeed one another with increas- ing rapidity. We had one wave last year--a big one. We have another this year-a smaller one. In short, what we see at present is not 70 much peril Of
 war as return of the periodic panic,
 which will gradually become the settled | mood of international politics.
 I But there are aspects in this years
 panic which are serious. The mos.
 threatening fact of all IS that the war
 between Turkey and Italy, instead of coming to an early close, is gradually
 spreading throughout Eastern Europe.
 Every day brings news of the capture of a new Turkish island m Agean Sea. The
 whole of Europe knows that these is- lands once captured are not likely to re- turn to their original owners.
 The danger of the situation is shown by the statement of the "Eclair"-that Italy and Russia In combination are ask ing for another European conference.
 For that Is another fact of grave im- port. Russia has been fishing in troubled waters The greatest European grievance of the Russian government is the fact that although the confinement of her merchant shipping to the Black Sea by the treaty of Paris QS56), was removed in 1870, yet the Turkish government can still forbid the movement of her war ships through the Dardanelles. The con sistent aim of Russia Is to open the ac- cess to the Mediterranean, just as 1t is our aim to keep it closed. It is safe to predict that out of the countless army of American visitors who shall be crowding us out of all our best hotels next month, something like 99 per cent will travel to Henley on July G. Most Americans take a certain interest in the classic regatta at Henley even under or dinary circumstances, but this year, they will have the additional pleasure of wit messing the King and Queen travelling down the narrow waterway in the old state. barge which was ordered built by l William III. for his Queen Mary, more
 than 100 years before the American col
 onies tore themselves away from Eng land.
 In spite of it's antiquity 1t is still
 water-tight, serviceable boat, some 40 | feet long, built on the lines of Dutch
 naval architecture, and. like all the old state barges, heavy, highly ornamented and canopied. On the stern Is the royal coat of arms and the cavern Lilies of | France, quartered with the Lions of | England, are part of it's decoration. | To the public of this generation the state barge Is little more than a tradi- | tion. until it made its appearance at Eton in June, 1904 with the late King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on | board, many doubted it's existence. Un- | fortunately, it will not on this occasion
 be seen except in the neighborhood of
 the regatta, for it is propelled by oars | and pull from London to Henley would | try the muscles and endurance of the
 stoutest bargeman. The start will be | made from a place not yet fixed, although | 1t is supposed that the King and Queen will embark at Henley Itself and be | pulled to the royal grand stand
 | At the present time the old barge is
 being thoroughly overhauled and decor
 ated in red and gold, red being the color
 even of the oars On the day of the great event the barge will be in charge of the Kings .bargemaster, commanding | eight bargemen.
 | The state livery of the bargemen con
 sists of a long scarlet coat made very | ample below the waist. From the high collar to the waist extend two rows of | gold buttons bearing the royal cypher, l and the space between these is almost l filled with bold outstanding design, | composed of the royal arms, backed by 1 the Rose Shamrock and Thistle, with the | letters "G" and "R" sdrmounted by the
 imperial crown. A black velvet peaked | cap. like that of jockey. red brooches
 and stockings and buckled shoes. com plete the outfit. The bargemasters full dress consists of an Eton-shaped scarlet
 jacket, brooches, white silk stockings and cooked hat.
 British money Is fast pouring into Rus
 sia, and among the manifold Anglo-Rus-
 sian enterprises which have thus been created, one will arouse widespread in-
 terest by reason of its grandoise char acter.
 On the historic Dnieper, between the towns of Ekaterinolsaw and Alexand- | roffsk, there are rapi,sS which hinder
 navigation and cargies have to be un- shipped and transported over land for
 scme distance. The cost of trans-ship- ment is enormous and Count Vorontsoff Dnshkiff, the viceroy of the Caucasus and ex-minister of the imperial court,
 conceived the plan or regulating the
 navigation and utilizing the water power
 of the rapids A vast system of canals, dams and locks will be constructed, cables
 will be laid down from generating sta tions to the group or iron works near | Ekaternoslav, which require enormous | quantities of electric energy It is com puted that the hydro-electric plant will | produce 10000 horse power Among the
 many by-schemes which are also under
 consideration is one for the extraction of 1 nitrogen from the air.
 | The contract has already been signed by l Count Voronstoff Dashkoff with the ex- managing director of the Westinghouse company in Russia, the constructor of l the electric tramways of St. Petersburg | and other well known persons. | For the International Horse Show at l Olympia, which opens tomorrow, and 1 closes in the evening of Saturday, June 29.
 the entries closed, with the grand total | of $l7, 500 for cups and money prizes to 1 fhe valle of S67 5nn The iumninp com,