The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-05-15
AUSTRIA GROWLS
RUSSIA SNARLS
TWO NATIONS ARE VERY
UNFRlENDLY TOWARD
EACH OTHER
NO WAR IN SIGHT
Each Country Has Too Much At
Stake to Get Into a Fight With
With Formidable Adversary
NO WAR IN SIGHT


In Vienna, when asked recently about
| the relations between Austria Hun
gary aiItl Russia. blutly answered that
there were none. For the past two
years there has practically been no
Russian ambassador at the court o;
VicnnP. Nominally, of course. there
has been an ambassador, but lie has
/ always found some preteXt for being
hbsent from his post, leaving the OIL
Rial duties To the counsellor of en-
! bassy who has carefully abstained
| from doing anything. Similarly Aus
| trta HunBary's diplomatic representa-
| ton NJ 81. Petersburg has been almost
| equally perfunctory. Count Sz~1ury
was appointed ambassador to Russia
last October. but up TO the present
! has. spent only three weeks at LIS
J lost; his absence being vaguely al
/ crihed to family reasons.
! For sometime past there has been
( considerable tension In the relations
petween the t~0 e::ssssi>! zee the precise
! reasons Tor which are difficult to ex-
I plain. The whola situation is full of
+ complications. There, are religious
/ and racial questions involved prImar-
Q n.y. lib TWO ucH,
there Is the old rivalry for predomi-
nance In the Balkans and finally the
| many differences between Triple
/ Alliance anu tine Triple Entente
/ which exert q most important infiu-
ence on relations existing between
| the individual countries in each of the
| group.
Upito the tiIne OF the Austrian an
paxation OF Bosnia and Herzegovina
! In 1908. the relations between the two
countries had been quite friendly.
! they nRd aisttie n working arrange
ment In the Balkans regarding the
conditions In Macedonia, and although
1 II has not accomplished much, every
thing was moving along nicely. But
| the ,precipitnta move of the late Aus
trInn foreign minister, Count Aeilren-
lthai, in the annexation OF Bosnia. up-
lset everything. The Russian minister,
|. lswolskyJ felt. tlras he had been duped
\ by the Austrian colleague and he new
Ter fGryate him. Since then. Isowolsky
! has been Austria -fIungary's bitterest
enemy, and since he is one Of tie most
influential personages in the Russian
| National committee he has neen able
i to make things very GisagreeabIe in
Imany respects for the dual monarchy.
\ very BOOu
/ for believing that an Austro- Russian
| war was very near just before the
/ RaIkarf war broke out In the fall of
1912 \ Ii was only through the strong
/ personal efforts OF tile venerable Aus
trian Emperor, Frances Joseph that
such n catastrophe was prevented. Ii
10 ihnMEght that Emneror Nicholas
was Just as much opposed 70 the war,
but he, is no politician and by no
means strong enough TO hold back the
'firebrands In the Russian National
Committee.
/ The personal relations between the
| two imperial families arr of the nIost
cordial charcter. 1t is sometimes ev-
en- said that the Hapsburgs arc really
pro-Russian. The late Archduke
i Charles Louis, brother of the emperor
and father of Arohduke Francis Ferdi-
nRnd, and heir to the throne, was al
ways agreat friend OF Russia and his
I sympathies In that direction are be-
lieved to some extent 10 have been in
herited by Ills son.
Archduke Charles Louis who was
the patron OF the principle Austrian
Industrial associations and very far
lsighted man, perceived the very i'm
poftant role of commerce and indus,
try, at least twenty years before Eu,
4 froptsTn statesmen begun to pay am
attention to these factors. He knew
wary well that Russia would never bt
likely to injure AustFia d foreign com
merce very much, white Ger
many would some day ruin Ii. Rus
Bla, besides having no enormous home
market for supply. had practically M
great Industries. while German was
constantly on the lookor sor new
markets to conquer,
Events have proved the correctness
Of tho Archduke's Views. Twent,
yasra ago &ustriaSHungary alIhos
monopolized the trade OF the Balkani
and Turkey and Egypt. Today fh,
bulk OF the trade OF these two coun
tries has gone TO the Germans. In
Ideed, tho aggressive methods cf Ger
man merchants Is trying 10 csptur,
II AustFiess commerce IN the near East
and are bitterly resented by their Aus
tTian rivals.
d The synipathies and feelings OF thu
Two governments and the two people
Z Iure very different from. those prevail
I ing between the rulers. The so-eailes
National committee In Russln fs NOS
i eielsptiy ant. Al StriaH aha II 's'y.t IS IS
s inH every nery0 to set absuss. Z ech
tfsoi 5ols IHe buIhSnS, ~ 'tsfstt - q
/ be- The Ei tft Is mainly d religibJis one
Raasia entihs tn Bring ell Gle Ret
ltans Under thas sway or, tho Orthoaoi
Irllirch and TO force 9he EyonaE Cath
0iic cart Of the pppui6 6soa, as we'll 4:
thes fEsefmafis to aciSnewletige tt,
supremacy Of the Russian churci /
e this. which plains Taussia.s hostile
slttlyuae 70 AanG TeTuinand OF DuiEst
ychGrchs Russia would never consen