| Show fr MUlk EUROPEAN combinations AND complications significant fact in connection with tie the present smoldering fires in europe is the deter mi astion of belgium to provide herself with a navy nav yade ft defense she has not had bad tor for a long time she has an immense merchant rh marine arine however and the largest and best ot or her are to be dismantled dismantle d fitzel 14 id d and equipped throughout as first class men of war this involves an immense expenditure one that no nation would taxi take upon itself for the sake saie of merely having such vessels on the AU seas belgium has all along alon been able to marauda mul maia a neutral position wars have been dis trading europe and could doubtless continue in that line of policy importing exporting fex porting and trafficking icing generally while the others were fi gating if ahe felt rpm t hue does doea not Iier syn atlease at lea least at her in ia telesis te resEs gre are with germany and she will doubtless join the al lance woich now inci includes ludes nation austria and italy to as soon as actively commence cOmme nep tuis appears to be some aliat annat atal jn an view of the act thap belgium is geographically as mush a part pare ot of arance us as alsace and vor lor rue are and tile greater pa part tit of its population nearly allot all of those ip the and part eife e french r ch language amenities blo bloda oa and a C cammon tongue d do 0 not however seem to count i aig w when I 1 le n pecuniary forests r 46 an and d gerie general r a i safety tire are ai twe the case with wim the gen gei rag of individuals and individuals nations nai na ions Lions 1 ale une otner other step taken by belgium serves as at least a straw to td snow way the wind blows she nas nah Ais discharged charged tier ner english euclish captains a and ild filled places with wim germans rewarded as purely a maiter ot of on siness lints would to nothing autin out in connection with bile conversion ot 01 into an armed aua flotilla it means that england is to have no in tile the at f airs of neighbors that she is dis dib d and that the most they expect from fro M her is to keep ke ep out 0 ut an aal let all parties to the sarfe fe alone t what with the active pipa preparations rations gijak g aug an in austria the do status gatus of the german if forces and rus 1 ashlen but bat subdued demeanor the theatre the d er e of the coming coaling conflict may be said to be pretty well mapped put ut al ready kelto that is the oe beginning ginning A ot it is 1 Itt uok only a few I 1 e w weeks to completely and permanently transfer tue initial tz 4 t 5 the last struggle between france i a and d germany ermany and the same can be sad except as to in regard to the more recent war between russia and turkey it looks as if the first gun would be fired dred near enough to the baiot silesia or galicia to martle some of the inhabitants at least but bat where the contest may ebb flaw aller after that is another question iane thing is well settled it will on he le territory of one disputants many months iwo have passed and every nerve is a being stra iudin in the unite united every effort to hold bold back tile the dogs of war neither party will re use to pick up the gannt ga let but so far there is some hesitancy as to who shall throw it down I 1 it is no to be expected that russia will fight the four allies single handed unless she were to count on the bat ties gall on i nor ner own soil roil which mabe it q no her part a def defens ens lye weri it is not the russian mode of procedure abe he must advance continually or bollap e Nume numerically ricilly she is nearly as strong as all of the others aad on hewn soil soilo could perhaps de feat thein in the end but she lacks r oney onby and wants control of the black sea the former would have hav eaten a tendency to restrain her to defensive operations but the latter would impel her to offensive mea tn in more respects than one it suspected that a quiet deal has been beeri entered into with turkey by the muscovite the terms of which are the obliteration of austrian and ger and ibid influence in v tho Tur kilah provinces and their con arol byRus by Rus iia aia and turkey jointly and undisputed buted control of the sea S rabi the e former fit would be a strange bombina t ifa i but at war like politics makes arige bedfellows bed fellows of course the ottoman Ottoma 6 government realizes that its complete disruption and the parceling butof the remainder of its territory in the absence of azian a biant ally tally somewhere in europe is only a question of time and a 4 short time at t batand it is better t to satisfy russia at once and convert let into a friend than to be on epard and in a state ot 91 coal a taut stant alarm for fear of what Is wanted being taken without the consideration of friendship these two could make it exceedingly inte interesting for the southeastern part of austria and it if prance france bould see sec fit to wake take a hand band the coition poi tion of the former nation would be extremely critical she would be completely hemmed in and stand in a similar po position to that occupied by the state of in the early part of the I 1 late ate overrun by y first one party then another and plundered and aged by botti both however up to this time it is not frances francea quarrel ano she shows no present disposition to ma make ke it such but there is an element there and it is composed of the overwhelming majority of the population ula tion whose only anini ambition tion is the reformation of the eastern frontier of their country and what better time rould could be selected for expelling the germans from Strasburg and metz and trailing their banner in the dust to in the presence of the defiantly floating tricolor than when germany has her hands full with her eastern neighbor and could not spare enough men nor enough munitions to drive the frenchmen forth agilia again indeed history has shown that these two nations are tol drably evenly matched and the talk of a portion of either overcoming the entire arins anns of the other would be absurd but bat france could not do this antes andes and es cape the vortex of the struggle to recapture alsace and lorraine would be to declare war upon germany at once and we au all know what t that ha t me means ans |
