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Show luiiorm -.Tin niusricT. AusTlUA It greatly agitated over (ho warlike demonstration of Itutsla. Great activity -revallslu the forces of Iho Cztr located near the, frontier. General Gourko, who Is tald to bo In command of tho division of tho army that will bo used for oDentlve purposes pur-poses In case of war, Is Inconstant communication with Bt. Petersburg, Peters-burg, and sealed military order are flying about from point to I jl nt. There may be nothing In all this that will lead to the o enluR or a Kuropcan war at an early date, yet what can all this; reparation mean If there la no hostile Intention behind It? Warsaw a; jieart to be, at present, the ltutslan point of concentration, and the object of the presont movement of the Cxsr mean that, In the event of a declaration of war, ho Intends to secure Ibe advantage ou the llrat outbreak. In any kind of a fight there Ian great deal In fitting lu the first ifTcctlvo blow, at Id moral tiled I alwaya pott ntlal. The pedal alarm created In Austria It occasioned by tho fact that the mill (try demonstrations are close to her frontier. Tho ltutslan ambassadorbas, however, assured the Austrliu government gov-ernment that Ibe Czar ha no ttarllko Intention with regard to Ibat country. Thla statement hat no quieting cllect, a auurauce of that character from aucha aource are taken by tho leading nation for what they are esteemed to bu worth, and that I not much. Thla much I certain, no matter which of the two nations Germany or Austria the Czar mayiropose to rt-tack, rt-tack, the struggle would Involve both, according to tho conditions of Iho trip Its nlllarice. It would appear also that It would bring Italy Into the fight If an Immediate war has teen decldtd ujiou by llussla, however, It la poslble that a portion of tho understanding Iwtweeu llussla and Krnncejs that the latter will take care of Italy. That would leat tho Czar to cope with Germany nnd Austria. In Hut event It could scarcely lo doubted that Italy would bo unable to cope with France, while the .other wlngof the fight would bo so nearly equal a to make the Istuu doubtful, llussla having the advantage of overwhelming over-whelming number with which to perform her part of the rocrs of "I ulverlzlng." On tho part of llussla, ono of the chief Immediate objects of such it war would bu tho unification unifica-tion of all the Slavonic race. Tho success of this rchemn uouldruean tho annihilation of Austria, Aus-tria, Thoultlmate purpose would be, osa matter of course, tho occujatlon of Constantinople by Ilutsla. The one ttipleadtdlrcclly toward the other. Thu present war-cloud may past off, but the element will gather agalu, until there will finally bo n 'break resulting re-sulting in l.uroo being deluged In blood. |
