The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-26
SLEEP
DOES WONDERS
Europe Went to Bed Convinced There
Would be War and Awoke This
Morning Convinced There
Would Not.
THE LAWRENCE STRIKE CANNOT BE EXPLAINED
idea Was Not Popular In the First
Place and Balkan Troubles Arc
No Longer Source
Of Worry.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. |
LONDON, Nov. 26. After several [
weeks attack Of homicidal mania in
its worst form, Europe awoke today /
completely restored to reason.
Just what happened over night no
body could exactly understand. The
change was psychological There
were no developments In the interna-
tional situation. People simply went
to bed last night convinced that there
would be war and got up this morning
convinced that there would not.
The last editions Of yesterday after
noon newspapers breathed death and
destruction; the morning papers to-
day dwelt on the folly Of the scare
which yesterday had them as firmly
in it's grip as it held the public of the
entire continent.
1t was still agreed today that the
Balkan situation is one which will re-
quire considerable Strengthening.
Whereas yesterday, however, it was
the consensus Of opinion that nothing
but war could straighten, today every
one said there would not be the slight
est difficulty in accomplishing it by
peaceful negotiations.
There have been war scares before
but none for which there was so little
reason. War scares have also evapo-
rated but none SO suddenly.
The agencies were blamed here to-
/ day for the danger which 1t was be-
[, ieved had been Avertsd, though BY a
\ narrow gin-diplomacy and STOCK
market manipulators
The diplomats were not looked on
! as really malicious The current view
was that they Were SO absorbed in
their international chess game as to
have lost all idea OF what a general
European conflict would mean. The
market manipulators were accused OF
doing their utmost to frighten the pub
/ lie, regardless OF consequences, for
their own financial benefit.
The idea of war was not popular
with the European people. There has
. been no outburst of martial enthus
!. iasm anywhere. Gloom blanketed the
entire continent. The common judg
ment seemed to be, however, that
little as anyone wanted to fight, there
! was no escape from 1t. Then-mil
lions of people at once. apparently
appeared to be suddenly struck b,
the same thought
why, after all. should We fight i
!, we don't want TOP
. The socialists throughout Europ,
| took credit for the sudden revulsiol
: of feeling. The proclamation issue,
i by their international congress a
/ Basel yesterday, they said, was wha
accomplished 1t.
9 Some of the English newspaper
D agreed that the change did, indeed
9 follow SO soon after the proclamation
I were issued as to suggest a connection
e between them.
Military preparations, OF course
continued. Some newspapers stuc
to their claims that nothing can pre-
vent an armed clash, but they ha
y lost their effect on the public
r The Vienna Tageblatt maintaine
that reports of an Improvement in tn
S situation were baseless, that Servi
y continued fiercely provocative an
: that It had information from a "hig
T. parsonage that Consul Prochasks
l. Austria's representative at Prisrent
e was murdered by servian troop
(. when they captured the town fro1
y the Turks.
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