Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-13
SPIRIDOVITCH IN
PARISCONSPIRES
FOR THE BALKANS
Dreams Of Great Slavic Empire,
Some of His Visions Have
Already Come True.
BY MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.
Special Gable TO The American.


Special Gable TO The American.
PARIS, July 12.-There is at this
| moment on the heights of Mont
martre the most persistent conspira-
tor of the age. Professedly he is not
in concealment, but he is safer from
those who are seeking him than IL
he were in a cave. The conspirator
is General Count Arthur Techerep
Spiridovitch
on the eve Of hostilities between
Turkey and the four Balkan allies.
General Spiridovitch took up his
abode near the top OF the artistic
mount and has not come down since.
Up to that date he lived in fashion
able hotels and mingled with the but
terfiy thronE. Since that time he has
worked day and night telegraphng
here, cabling there, directing So Slavic
societies how to make their influence
felt more effectively Pole by de-
scent Russian by birth, he has the
fire of the former and the naivete
of the latter He is as cadaverous
looking as was Catalina the conspira-
tor Of classic fame. Four times he
has been elected president Of the
Slavic Society of Moscow and it is
the Sc branches of this organization
which gave him so much secret pow
er.
President Balkan War.
The gigantic program he has
mapped out would look ridiculous If
we did not know Of this famous con-
Z spirator's predictions in the past
( For instance, he foresaw the triple
entente as an offset 10 the triple al
lance. Last August in the Paris
journal he declared most emphatical-
/ ly that the Turko- Balkan war was
about to break.
Nor does the arch conspirator al
ways confine himself to predictions.
When France and the Vatican were
at their most serious loggerheads
Germany wished to replace the for
mer as protector of the Christians
in the Orient. Everything was ar
ranged for the transfer. II would
have enlarged Germany's sphere Of
influence. The Emperor wished it.
The arch Conspirator sent a telegram
to the Vatican declaring that sach
a transfer would ALLEVIATE millions
of Slavs who We're most devoted to
| the Holy See The transfer was not
] made
proposals Are Startling.
And now what does Consiprator
| Spiridovitch propose? Three things.
| They almost take ones breath away.
The first is a southern Slavic en-
pire composed Of all Of the coun-
tries whose liberation from Turkey
was obtained or encouraged by Rus
STA. including Bulgaria, Servia, Mon
tenegrO, all the territories they have
taken in the late war, Bosnia. Herze-
govina Albania. Poland, Crotia and
the Czech country
Secondly, he proposes to break up
the patchwork empire OF Austria.
This would give Hungary her indie
pendence and let the Slavs Of the
Austrian empire join the new con-
federation.
The third proposition is the indie
pendence of Poland as an integral
state of the confederacy Russia,
Austria and Germany would have to
give their respective portions Of Pc
land.
Dream of Slavic Empire.
The Slavic empire Of the South
would hold back the Mohammedian
invasion Of Europe. Asiatics are
again looking to European conquest.
They may attempt, says this magnifi-
cent dreamer, what Genghis Khan
and Timour did in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. The gre,-t
Slavic Empire of the North will fight
them back
Nor does the dream stop here.
When all these things will be ac-
complished the dream of TIE Pan
Slavist, as interpreted by General
Spiridovitch, is universal peace. He
says:
Pan Slavism wishes neither to an
mex nor Cypress. Its one desire is
the reign of peace through liberty
and fraternity Its ideal is to see
the tribunal Of The Hague in full
working action"