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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 23, 1905

Note and Comment

A MOMENTOUS question has been sprung upon European statesmen by the Russian reverses in Manchuria, says a London, England, dispatch. A new situation in world politics has been created, Russia being now so weakened as to “release China, Turkey, Germany, and Great Britain from enormous pressure.” Political revolution may set up a new government in Russia, which would certainly concentrate its energies on securing a commercial outlet in the Mediterranean, which would mean “the driving of the sultan out of Europe.” Abdul Hamid, however, it is stated, will not wait for such a crisis, and “European diplomacy is anxiously occupied at the present moment with the problem of how to prevent him from seizing the opportunity of Russia’s embarrassment to settle old scores in Macedonia and against Bulgaria. It will be one of the greatest of modern diplomatic achievements,” says the dispatch, “if the spring passes without seeing a Turkish army marching against Sofia, or perhaps Athens.”