Show THUNDER the E european equilibrium which ision i c d the most de ficare and I nd da unstable things is at tho the pre present zent time not inconsiderably threatened Z ay by serious disturbances the country whence come ominous flashes of lightning followed by bolts of thun thunder deris is on the cast as shore of the aar adr adriatic batic sea which separates italy from front austria turkey and greece at present the ution that has arisen against austrian rule in s southern dalmacia Dal mafia and in the Herze herzegovina govina may only be a comparatively small fire but it is is likel likely t to break out oitt into a conflagration threatening to con consume consumo sunio contiguous countries with the cruelties cruel ties of warfare it all depends whether the government of vienna succeeds by prompt and deci decitise vise action to localize the incipient fire and t to 00 extinguish x it by cutting off the a air IT tile rebellion originated in the the small region in the southernmost corner of Daf dalmatia matia in im immediate vicinity of the inde independent e nm mountain principality of mon te benegro tenc negro gro the occasion for the entente was the refusal of the inhabitants h aa tants to submit to the tile austrian conscription but no doubt the r antipathy against the austrian ausin a ii army was n not ot the only reason th that a t im irn belled the to insurrection but the very hatred of austrian dominion which rich w is little agreeable to them while the si simple i court of Cettin je and themore alie more patriarchal government of montenegro afford to them examples far more acceptable a ble this tres istance to the tho austrian rule has been especially strong in the whose inhabitants only suffered but never accepted tb the c austrian yoke imposed upon them bythe by alie treaty of berlin as one of the diplomatic results of the ruso russo turkish war I the insurrection at first insignificant ant gradually assumed larger dime dimensions i ns ions the insurrections already read y dispose of a military f force orce of men well aipel A a armed r m ed anil well trained in the use of the gun A formidable austrian army has been sent ag against them various s encounters have taken taen place in which large losses were incurred mostly by the government troops still there can be no doubt that austria would soon crush the rebellion were it not for the secret support and tacit connivance accorded to the rebels by other powers jealous of austrian be air the balkan peninsula not only dolid do the insurrectionists enjoy the fullest sympathies of the montenegrins Montene grins and probably their material aid but also far but distinct iii in the distant towers the russian giant frowning conceal ed jealousy at the tile success of the habsburg I monarchy on former turkish soil the government of SL has not yet forgotten that athe fruits of the victories of russian soldiers eol diera over tho afus ml men military were ere plucked and harvested by other parties especially by austria an and d england the 91 russian people belong to tile race called slav stay a powerful and merciless rival to the two other leading ardts facea oce occupying W europe the teutonic of switzerland and austria scandinavia di navia england d and holland latin comprising mpr hing I the peo plea of italy spain port portugal uga france parts of Swit switzerland zerl and and belgium ever ethe time of peter I of russia alio muscovite mon monarchy arcay steadily rapa dily pushing f forward orward the frontiers of its dominion it has advancing i ng now with the et stealthy tread of a tiger in the jun glaff af pf tile ganges then with the irresistible leap tap of the african lion into the far eart ast a st to the north worth to the to the west in ita its advances in the latter oter direction russia ruwa lias at ica least reached the confines of other powerful nations such aa as the reen regenerated rated germany with its sup pes d invincible army napoleon I once predicted that europe would vIti ultimately become republican or cossack for the former alternative Iter native akere seems little prospect as yet with a bismarck 1211 y jerf z muzzling the press silencing the legislators a and nd oppre oppressing s i in tile people of germa aud the second t rate of tile contin continent ent assiduously in I tw g all ill i aitelli p e at i self government in tile very bu bud d but there is the slav race a raw endowed with all ali the b affa qu alithea alit iea s of the successful conqueror ag aggressive greAve bold gra grasping hardy bardy aelen relentless tic I t ll 11 homogeneous A austi h LV bete alc lis conglomeration ro me ration cration of nationalities contains to tp a great extent slav elements aich arc only bearing the rulo of the kaiser and secretly bvm wis for deliverance deliveran ce which they only expect tit at the handa hands of their abc jacb acc f ellowe iii the E east ast thus all tai the e ts arc are ready in the witcha cauldron cauldren caul dron and it only co a jP light a f fire ire which w will z firc cause a u so a most i terrible boiling everything points towards a con fia of d dreadful rea events gog gog ia to be array arrayed ed against t magog AIn sog kace race will battle with race and the nations themselves will visit on each cach other the punishments n and chastise acute in ill t their c corruption now it is only a asmal handful of o vini n re rebel but as indicated above we discern anit in it tho premonitory flashes aslies of lightning and we ran can almost hear in the distance the dismal rumbling ru of thi threatening cat thunder I |