Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-02-05
'AUSTRO-RUSSIAN
WAR CERTAINTY,
IS BELIEVED
Genial Hangman" in Com.
mand Of Austrian Military
Forces Wants a Fight; Race
for Slavic Supremacy on.

Vienna. Feb. N.--AmhasSudors and
peace negotlators Notwithstanding,
Austria II marching into war. Those
10 whom this IL not evident reckon
without that brilliant impetuoua sol
der, the famous Conrad Won iOat-
zendori. chief OF the Austrian staaff.
Ne wants war ana not all the peace
loving emperors. foreign ministers
and ambassadors can say him nay.
Conrad believes that armies exist 20
make war.
Furthermore. the war N coming be-
cause Austria wants a. because q
can not yet along with Russia: h".
cause Austria believes 81 N Rii.tm-
| portant that Il dispute the eastern.
neighbor the headship of the siav
people.
| Hlrth az IIare Consciousness.
one ~ the hest Judges of foreign
politics IN Europe-the only man
| vino long forsslw the Balkan WIT
predicted that an Austro- Russian war
would follow The late Austrian writ
eF AleNande, Won Peez wrote short
W before his death that bulgaria.
/ Seryia ana Montenegro the omitted
GreeCe) would make war on Turkey
before he end Of 1919. ana that the
/ TURKS would be- beaten. This rema - 2
able proof or foresight gives value
"a m. rest of Pcezs prophecies. with
la a year AFTER the Balkan war, no
predicted Austria hungary would 40
So war with Russia Ia order tn se.-
tie once ana for all the No. iding
question Of the CLAWS. He gave his
reasons
"a slay victory over Turkey viii
raise the race consciousness uf the
Siay states. Russia" he added.
would try to take the Slav leader
ship. so that the only measure ter
Austria. II Il wishes L. exist. viii be
To- put Russia back into It's place
u is only year aga since. after
q quarrel with the late Count Alloys
van Ahpnthal. ho waa dismissed
| from the post Of chief at staff whica
he had held since 1899. and was
| given the far less influential post OF
inspector OF the army Conrad had
offended the peace loving Aehrenthal
hy his too bold preparations and too
costly expenditure on the expected
war with italy.
The Gcnlai Hangman.
Gen, Conrad Won lIoetzendort Is
, the most imposing parsonage Austria
has produced since the age Of Va!
: lrnHtein. Ne rs discovery Of Arch
duke Franz Ferdinand Ten year'
. ago Conrad was known go IA" arnl
80 large only AS q writer 81 books oI
1tactics. bat iu the army his fsv"r'
methods earned him the hickman
The Genial lianRman." In thoa'
days rho chief OF staff was old Haruf
,on Beck. who did everything accord
! ms co the best book-uotc.
Not According Ca "HOyic."
During maneuvers In 1906 Conrad
% drew 40 himself the attention hoth 4
the urchduke ana 81 Beck. Beck wn'
. Mortified. Conrad was doing incom
Iprrhensiblc things which the yer,
hest military manuals said nothini
about According 10 the manuals
lConrnd already had put himself %
? "a position where his whole division
must be taken prisoner IN tact. N
was surrounded" a few hour
K later Beck saw something which in
creased his horror. The surround
N ed" Conrads army was climbiul
down a ,preclpice which the hes
a guide hooks and the best miiitnr
\ maps agreed was absolutely imprac
- ticabie Thus Conrad's force wen
% TO Beck that was very painful, AM
n Conrad was nearly sent into retire
= mcnt. Then Franz Ferdinand step
7, ped IN So Conrad won Hontgendor
!, became chief az staff.
Austria Greatest Ssav state.
Conrnd's original hope was IRE
generating war" with Italy Now ~
!, and the soldiers behind him really
= that the war must be- with Russia
- The balkan struggle has changed IN
:" political situation. ana Austria toda
finds Itself compelled 20 chalieng
~ Russia for the slav leadership, u
TO face such Russian predominant
~ that she will not longer be master !
her own house. The crux II tina
"a Austria Il after Russia, the creates
u slav state. Twenty-seven mi4lio
Islhvs lnhablt its territories. az again,
eleven million Germans. and min