The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-08-05
EXTINCTION IS
FATE OF AUSTRIA
Under the Present War
ring Procedure.
NEW MAP OF EUROPE APPEARS
As Probable Result Of War
Embracing Millions
Of Soldiers.
RUSsIA'S PURPOSE ENIGMATIC
tBy c. F. Bertelli.)


trian barrier which hitherto has
kept back 1SO,OOO,OO0 Slavs from
Europe lis breaking down. The Slav
Colossus has awakened from its
long sleep and is now making fran
tic efforts to join the great family
of civilized nations.
To endeavor to prevent the reali-
cation of the idea of this people is
the dangerous. the barbarous task
which Austria has taken up. She is
attempting to halt the wheels of
progress in order to bolster up the
waning prestige of the house of
Hapsburg.
Servia may have been regarded
as of little importance by Vienna UNI
ill now, but greater Servia is reali-
ty, "A force that cannot be destroyed,
and its millions of people are dis
tributed throughout the various
Balkan countries, covering the
whole territory between Belgrade
and the Adriatic, while especially
piled mp in Bosnia, herzegovina, the
Saniak of Novobazar, and from
there southwark as far as Greece.
The responsibility of attempting
to prevent the progressive impetus
of this people is also shared in
large measure by Germany.
Georges Clemenceau, former Pre-
mier of France and the greatest in
ternational statesman of Europe.
said that one word from Kaiser Will
helm to Francis Joseph would have
cleared the air of the appalling in
cubus OF a general European confa-
grafton.
"Once blood has flowed" said
Clemenceau, Russia can no longer
temporize or give Austria time to
draw back. and once Russia has
drawn her sword all Europe will b.
in arms for work of devastation
such as the world has never before
witnessed"
Austria probably will be doomed to
extinction as European power.
Germany thereby will lose her buff
fer, which heretofore has STAYED of
the Slav peril in the South. And
Germany, if she takes hand. can
scarcely hope to defeat 100000
Russian troops on the east and l.
100000 French troops on the west.
Austria will have her hands COM
pletely occupied with the less than
half million trained soldiers of Ser
fidence as result OF their triumps
in the Balkan war.
Indications are that both England
and Italy will adopt an attitude of
'watchful waiting" but President
Wilson's famous formula cannot APP
ply TO France. II Germany shows her
teeth to Russia this republic must
go to war, and once more the
dreams of the pacifcists will be
shattered.
Austria's hypocritical diplomacy
has foiled the earnest efforts of Sir
Edward Grey to bring about media
ton. II has been revealed by Tues
days events that whatever Servia'
reply to her drastic note might have
been, Austria was determined to go
to war. Austria's diplomats state
that their action does not mask de-
signs for territorial expansion. but
her duplicity all along makes such "A
protestation difficult to believe.
The declaration OF war by Aus
tria automatically removes from the
field of diplomacy the possibility of
compromising the original cause of
the present European crisis. II al
so transforms "A situation-grave
beyond any this generation has
known-into a peril almost beyond
calculation. II is still humanity pos
sible that the conflict may be 10
Called" as the current phrase has
II. In other words. IL Is still posi-
BILE for Russia to stand aside and
permit the little Slav States OF Ser
via and Montenegro, which owe
their existence TO her. to be worn
down by the millions OF Austro-