European Powers Alarmed Over Russo-British Crisis
EUROPE is profoundly disturbed. Russia has refused to submit to the terms dictated by England. England has refused to obey Russia’s demand for the withdrawal of the English fleet from the Sea of Marmora. England will not withdraw her ironclads from the neighborhood of Constantinople unless Russia will withdraw her armies from their present nearness to the same point. Lord Derby resigned the Secretaryship of Foreign Affairs in the British Ministry, unwilling to be longer responsible for the rash and warlike measures which the Beaconsfield administration had resolved upon. Austria has given up trying to bring about a conference of the Powers. England has called out her reserves, and Russia is putting forth every effort to strengthen her positions at the front. In the event of an open rupture between the Bear and the Lion, the Turk, as a “neutral,” is hoping for some possible mitigation of woes. The Hungarian Diet is ravenous for a chance to have a brush with the always hated Slav. Lord Salisbury succeeds Lord Derby as Foreign Secretary.