The situation in the Near East has been oVershadowed i
by the interview, and then by the Casablanca incident. Happily, however, such news as there is cannot be regarded as bad news. Though the Conference cannot be said to have been decided upon, at any rate it has not been decided against. Austria-Hungary has not yet replied to the invitation, and therefore we may still hope that she will ultimately see the danger and unwisdom of maintaining her original position that the Conference, if there is to be one, must be confined, as the Times correspondent at St. Petersburg puts it, to " registering the fait accompli." Meantime it is good to be able to record that the local situation in Servia is growing calmer. On the other hand, there are rumours of war preparations being actively carried on in Montenegro, and of ammunition and arms being distributed along the Herzegovinan frontier.
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