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Show SWEPT BY WAR HURRICANE Friendship and Royal and Imperial Ties Count for Nothing When the Bugle Blows. London. The peaceful relations between be-tween Austria and Russia had been unbroken since the Corsican conqueror ceased to force the powers of Europe Into unnatural and brief combinations to work his will. So old friends fall out. while Russia, antagonist of both France and Great Britain less than sixty year3 afto, stands with both of those powers now. Prussia fought Austria in 1SC6 and is today her mighty ally and defender. Enmity between France and Great Britain was long taken for granted, and often bitter. Now they make common com-mon cause of their fear. Royal aud imperial family ties count for nothing. Precedents are reversed. The war hurricane sweeps all such barriers away. It is a catastrophe and convulsion too vast to be gauged or limited by ordinary rules or lawa. |