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Show AN OLD WORLD'S WAR. Ex-Minister Wallace Thinks Europe May Plunge into a General Conflict ' to Settle the Roumelian Racket, And That Then the Crescent Will Forever Disappear from the Bosphoras. The Powers Wrangling Over the Problem To-day, and Little Bulgaria Bul-garia Still Massing Her Troops. x Predicting a tieneral .JQuropean War. New Yobk, October 6 General Low Wal-lane, Wal-lane, ex-Minister to Turkey, in an interview says of the Balkan trouble: I do not think any action will be taken by Turkey until the signatory Powers meet. The Sultan has too much common sense to rush -haphazard into, war- He will await the issue of the conference. confer-ence. In case of a disagreement between the Powers probably the whole of Europe will be. swept into hostilities, Russia, France and Italy on one side and England and Austria Aus-tria on the other. Germany, guided by Bismarck, Bis-marck, will endeavor to act as arbitrator. Austria would immediately take possession of Bosnia and Herzegovinia, and Russia would occupy Bulgaria and Roumelia. The conference is most likely to result in statu quo, and one of the world's greatest wars will happen before the Crescent disappears from the Bosphorus. |