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Show END OT BALKAN "WAR SCARE." Servia climbs down from her high pen h. but does if under the guic of disciplining the crown prince and dis-I dis-I " - -1 Ising him of his right of su-ce sum to the crown rather a sneaking way of getting out of on international difficult stirred up from bumptious per sistence and a willful, as well as fruitless, fruit-less, contention against established facts. It wa fully understood at the lime of the signatures of the nations to the treaty of Berbu, in ISTv that Austria had in fact, as well as in name, at tained to the possession of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Turkev understood this fully, and appealed to the delegates from Italy to interrogate Austria as to her understanding of the wording of that trcaiv. Austria, however, was too wary to make any unsafe statement, ami so its reply to the interrogation from Italy was that Austria understood from the wording of the treaty precisely precise-ly what the other signatorial powers understood, a noncommittal answer which lofi the matter precisely aa be fore, With Austria in civil and military occupation, with a sort of subordinate Occupation ami ;iuris,diGtion exercised by Turkey; the understanding being all the lime that Turkev had lost in the game and that Austria was. in fact, lhe only beneficiary of the great powers from the latest Kuf so -Turkish war. (I was understood all the time, fully, that if the dual status in the two Turkish Turk-ish provinces named was disturbed it any time. Ruspia would be the one most likely to protest. Austria, however, very adroitly look the opportunity when Russis vvas prostrate and uaable to make 'dnv effective protest to close out the Turkish occupation and formally as Bums 'he possession of those two provinces. prov-inces. It is announced in Russia thai tin- people there are tremendously exercised ex-ercised over the accomplished fact of Austria's possession. Serv ia bristled up nt this Austrian "encroachment," so-called, and has had a terrible war fever on for some time past. The erown prince has been the representative ami exponent of the war party. But the (lowers have turned the cold shoulder on that party, and hav-p advised Servia to subside But the crown prime's party was ho thoroughly committed to a forcible resistance that the crown prince had to be deposed iu order to squelch the war party. Accordingly a lot. of stories were brought forward about lhe hall' wild lunacy of the crdwn prince, how he was lost to morals and decency, a victim of excesses of all kinds, an, how, in a demoniacal fury, he had recently murdered one of his servants. These Were excuses enough j on their own account, and so the crown prii was forced to send in to the premier a letter renouncing bis claims to succession on the Servian throne. The Narodna Bkupshtins (National Assembly) will undoubtedly, accept it. not so much on moral or personal (.'rounds, a because of the necessity Of keeping the national peace And no the young mnn g06S out under a cloud, to serve the necessities of diplomacy and expediency. R is rather a shabby trick to play on the, young chap, but he had no business to lie so rash as to make himself the head of a war party when war was absolutely impossible And this theatrical coup will doubtless end the Halkan war scare. |
