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News Of The Week.

S INCE our last issue the situation in the Balkans has grown daily worse, and as we write on Friday morning it seems very difficult to believe that war will be avoided. We have......

The *pirriator

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Our Strong Impression, Is_ That In The End The Great

Powers will not find it - posilible to stop the Allies from acting, and that accordingly the outbreak of war is inevitable. The essential difficulty that confronts the Powers is......

It: Is Not Necessary To Dwell On The Elements Of

danger involved in the facts' just _ stated. 'At the same time there is reason to hope that the ;Powers , are so anxious to avoid a general conflagration that they may be able......

An Aspect 'of The Situation Which Must Not Be Neglected

is the hardening of Turkish opinion in favour of war. We must never forget that the Turks do not in any sense regard them- Selves as politically played out or at the mercy of......

This Belief, That A Vital Moment Has Arrived, Is Matched

in Bulgaria and Servia, and even in Greece, while the Mountaineers of Montenegro are, as always, ready for the fray. The hope to get rid once and for ever of Turkish domination......

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