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Show IL EUROPE OU VERGE oraniT DISSOLUTION OF TURKISH EMPIRE EM-PIRE MAY PLUNGE ALL GREAT POWERS INTO WAR, Austria and Germany Hattlty Mssslng Large Military Forces Along Their Frontier, Reservists of Cerman Corps Ceing Called to Colore. Lon!on Inerest In the war situation situa-tion has shifted from the belligerents, belliger-ents, whose delegate are preparing to mo ?t with an apparent sincere desire de-sire to work out the terms for a truce, to the great neighboring powers. Austria Aus-tria a 'id IluHdla. The rivals are strruK'lituIng their lordcr forces at an hour when the statesmen of all the powers are spending broadcast assurances that their only policy la to subordinate rivalries and Interests to the common welfare of Europe In the en ue of peace. No threatening factor In the situation situa-tion Is known which has not existed since the beginning of the war, unless It Is the near approach of the Servian army to the Adriatic, and the steps toward to-ward mobilization may mean nothing more than mutual distrust When the crisis over Itosnla and Herzegovina arose, both Hussia and Austria came nearer to a war footing than they seem to be now; yet the war cloud drifted away. Reports of the Russian mobilization, published In the Vienna flelchspoat, the organ of the heir to the throne, specify that all the military districts on the frontier, Vllna, Warsaw, KleT and Odessa as well an Moscow, are f" adopt war footings,' that the don Cossacks are to be pushed to the bor-Cur, bor-Cur, and that preparations are being made In Russian Poland In connection connec-tion with the dispatch of an enormous enor-mous number of trains with troops end munitions toward the Austrian line. The situation now aeema serious and a war between the great natiooi of Europe which will cause the recent conflict to pale Into insignificance, stems more than possible. AVIATOR KILLED IN WAR IH I I it- '4 M. Popoff, a Russian aviator, here : "holographed In his aeroplane. Is said to be the Orst airman killed In war. ' Ha la reported to have been killed by J a Turkish gunshot while flying over Adrlanople to reconnciter for the Hul- gartans. I i i |