Great importance is attached in Vienna, and indeed all Eastern
Europe, to a visit which M, Paschitch, the leader of the Servian Radicals, has recently paid to St. Petersburg. He is said to have secured the adhesion of great Russian officials, if not of the Czar himself, to a programme under which Servia is to obtain Bosnia, and the small district ceded after the war to Bulgaria, and Montenegro is to absorb the Herzegovina. In return, of course, Servia will hold herself at the dis- posal of the Russian Court. The arrangement is probable enough, as Russia always offers the little States territorial aggrandisement in return for aid and submissiveness, and for herself wants the Eastern Balkan, not the Western ; but we do not see that the programme makes much difference. It cannot be carried out until Russia has fought and won the great war, and from that she still hangs back. If she fights and wins, of course she will do as she likes ; but till then, the House of Hapsburg may be trusted not to surrender any- thing either to Belgrade or Cettinje. Whether the favour with which he has been received in St. Petersburg may not make M. Paschitch dangerous to the ricketty kind of govern- ment now existing in Servia, is another matter.
