Show THE EASTERN WAR CLOUD to THOSE who have been giving attention to progressive war prospects in europe the following translated for opinion from the new york arO journal v will b of f RU no usual interest the two most significant events that have given boca occasion ion to special anxieties abroad as is well known are the franco russian alliance and the condition of things in the east which are again rendered critical by russian agitation As regards the first of these incidents nothing particularly fresh has bas come to our knowledge but that a treaty exists both for of offensive ostensive and defensive purposes no doubt Is expressed in any quarter and the german foreign office is said to have 1 received very conclusive information in this particular through its own embassy at st petersburg the russian newspapers appreciate the in vesture of the order of st andrew in the person of president carnot as merely a diplomatic conr courtesy tesy the organ of russian aristocratic circles however significantly ca antly adds to its comments on the incident that this official testimony of relations of friendship between the two coun countries triem is worth more than all the demonstrations put together and renders supers supererogatory any mutual public declaration it is now f ull full time for the triple alliance to determine how much longer it will passively look on while russia completes her armaments the ru russian rusian sian press abstains for the moment frond any expression of opinion as to the movements ot of russia but decla resin regard to the situation in bulgaria and the assassination of Belt that an intervention of the european powers in that principality has now become a necessity the nov aremia calls on the signatories signa tories to the berlin treaty for the f of their 0 obligations as established by that convention v ven tion in a general condemnation of the thoroughly rotten internal condition of bulgaria and the declaration that it is h high b time to put an end to it the wrench french press goes hand band in hand in the most noteworthy manner with the russian although but a short while ago it wa giving itself very little concern about bulgaria or its ita surroundings this disc discloses loell clearly enough what may mav be expected from that quarter and contributes very materially to a complication of the general political icat situation 31 if russia however under any pretext whatever should proceed aa an armed power against bulgaria it is very clearly shadowed forth that there w will illbeg be a very expeditious delivery of arms and man munitions irions on the part of krupp in discharge of orders alre already jAY given by the german government 91 |