Show THE WAR QUESTION it was very generally reported not long since that england had entered into a secret treaty arrangement ran gement with turkey under the stipulations of this document it was understood that english fleets were to be permitted to pass through the dardanelles Darda nelles in the event of war with russia following close upon the heels of this an telegraph informed the world that the czar would recognize taft principle of arbitration and to avoid a dreadful conflict submit the Afghan boundary dispute to some european potentate for peaceful adjudication yet our latest authentic telegrams state thai tho of the russian army detill goes on and zeal is everywhere mani tested in making active war preparations throughout tho domain oatha czar turkey also continues to fortify the Boap horus and this does not certainly look aa if she had made any definite agreement to permit the war ships of great britain to pas into tho black sea in the event of a rupture between england and russia neither do we believe that the czar intends to submit to arbitration his diplomatic agents undoubtedly talk favorably of such a proceeding to deceive england and mislead the world as to tho real animus of the kussian Ku esian government but the czar is bent ou conquest and when tho proper tima arrives and conditions aro favorable he will had conw pretext to break with england and then the latter cannot avoid war unless she surrenders her prestige thia we believe she will not do and therefore we regard war as detill inevitable |