| OCR Text |
Show The Carving or Turkey. For the last four or five years a game of intrigue has been played by Russia and Austria, each trying to outwit the other. Austria has at last won Servia over to its side, and has virtually taken it under its protection. Russia has been intriguing through Bulgaria and Montenegro Monte-negro and by its agents in the Turkish provinces. The people and press of the two empires have been very. bitter to each other, whilst the governments have been professing warm friendship, but were secretly at work to undermine each other's influence. The . recent meeting of the emperors and their chiefs of government gov-ernment at Kremsier was professedly for the purpose of a better understanding. What was the agreement there made? It was generally believed when the emperors em-perors separated that a movement of some kind might be looked, for in the east. ; The revolution in Eastern Roumelia is but the first step. The others, whatever they may be, possibly will not immedi-I immedi-I ately follow, but they will surely come in time. It looks now as if the step of last week had been carefully planned and was understood by those of the leading powers most interested. Bulgaria has organized its army and is determined on holding the whole of the territory thus suddenly acquired. ac-quired. ' Turkey has appealed to the powers, but the appeal is, from present indications, likely to fall on .deaf ears. There is apparently an understanding between be-tween Austria, Germany and Russia, and. the Bulgarian attitude is taken with full knowledge of that understanding. England Eng-land is not likely to interfere and no other powerwill. "V ' ' .. If there is no interference now the next steps may be predicted with tolerable confidence. Bulgaria will follow the : example ex-ample of Servia and change from a tributary tribu-tary principality to an independent kingdom. king-dom. - Its boundaries will be pushed southward to the Egean sea. Then the "unspeakable Turk" may as well begin packing his valise and preparing to bid good-bye to Europe, whilst a Russian force comes down the Black sea to occupy Constantinople. Whether its accomplishment accomplish-ment comes sooner or later, that is the programme. |
