Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — TURMOIL IN EUROPE. [ARTICLE]

TURMOIL IN EUROPE.

Politics and Social Conditions Are Widely Disturbed. Politics and social conditions in Europe nre more disturbed than at any previous period since the Franco-Prussian war. Russia is battling with incipient revolution. Germany is involved in a coal strike. In bo'tli Russia and Germany these disturbances are partly industrial and partly political. In France the ministry has just fallen and a new one has been appointed, but it will continue Premier Combes’ policy, which caused the downfall of his own cabinet. There may be hostility to the new cabinet. There is smoldering fire along the Italio-Austrian border. ’ Domestic policies in Austria-Hungary constitute a volcano that may break forth at any time.: The Balkan peninsula is threatened with an uprising along with a Turkish campaign of repression.