| Show EASTERN WAR SPECKS THE most recent among amon the pointers indicative of the status of the eastern question are the correspondence and editorial comments which lately appeared in the london standard and the remark of the german emperor with regard to the russian loan the statements of the standard might be regarded as belonging to the alarmist order but they embody a significant fact that rhesia ha has been pressing forward in her conquests in the direction of asia for the last fifty years and in the pursuit of national aggrandizement she has reached the outposts of british india this we lately pointed out by defining the location of where the cossacks oos sacks have raised the russian national emblem that region now the scene of muscovite military operations is in situated on the northwest line of india if the czar Is occupation of that tract remains undisputed nobody who understands the russian policy of push a and fid encroachment can reasonably be lieve that he be will limit his movements to that quarter his motto transmitted from aline a line of predecessors is advance there being no retreat except it be brought about by compulsion this is why the standard correspondent is anxious that the sword of england be unsheathed in asia with respect to the statement of the emperor william about the russian loania indicates that he is in possession of information as to the character of the lately formed military agreement entered into between france and russia he asserted that German bankers could do as they pleased but that the success of the loan joan negotiations meant war with fatherland As a matter of course no kind of a war in which france might engage would satisfy that country unless germany should be a principal on the other side in fact neither one of them could engage in a war of any magnitude without the other being a participant as an opponent the logic of this statement to is clear the one whose forces were engaged would when the opportune moment arrived become an easy prey to the forces of the particular nation of the two whose hands bands were free A significant incident pointing to proposed interference in certain evena by prance france in connection with the eastern question was the late arrest 4 of a french spy within austrian ter it looks as if in the event of a 1 war between england and russia germany should interfere in bombina tion with the first named power france would step in on the other side if emperor william is correct in his estimate of the conse consequences que no e 9 of s the consummation of the loan then the peace of europe depends on the success of the czar in ing the sinews of war if this be the case the preservation of a pacific con could best befit be maintained for the time being by the pursuit of a policy that bat will defeat the success of the efa ef 3 forts of the russian emperor to obtain money william very bluntly indicates that such is his view consequently he be in substance tells the bankers of his country that they can do as they please regarding the russian loan but if they furnish the ozar czar with the money he wants they are enemies to their country in that way he tells the financiers that they can do as they v like on the subject but that at tile same time if they choose to furnish the czar with the money they put a knife into the hands bands of an enemy with which to te out cut the throats of their countrymen and consequence would not be agreeable to those who thus acted contrary to the interests of fatherland the german bank bankers e re S will surely not assume so grave a responsibility |
