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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1912
Page
24
A special dispatch from Berlin reports rising Balkan tensions may trigger a regional war. Powers are seen as pursuing self interest while diplomacy fails to curb violence, with Montenegro Italy and Turkey central to looming clashes. Europe braces for possible intervention as conflicts threaten broader catastrophe.
The piece argues that noble diplomacy masks a looming major power clash in the Balkans. It claims the real battle is between great powers with money influence and interests, not merely between small states, signaling dark times for regional peace.
The Daily News reviews Henry Belcher's The First American Civil War and finds bias in parts of the work while acknowledging its value to future historians. It criticizes Belcher for not fully crediting Americans and for omitting England’s blunders after the Boston Tea Party.
London reports say Bonar Law’s position as Unionist leader is weak with many enemies and calls for a change. The article notes his fighting style alienates the old Tory wing and suggests Walter Long or Austen Chamberlain may not take the helm, while Balfour’s health improves and may return to leadership if needed.
In London on September 21 a Buddhist propaganda campaign akin to Ananda Metteya’s 1908 effort is planned for England during the coming winter. The Buddhist Society of Great Britain and Ireland aims to secure a building with a library and meditation rooms and to eventually establish a monastery with five monks.
Paris suspicions rise as a report claims a trunk in America holds an original order for Marie Antoinette's execution. The claim conflicts with the known fact that the genuine document remains in the national archives. experts doubt the find, noting the U S trunk likely contains a replica or misattributed papers.
A London dispatch reports that about one million pounds in bullion remains buried in the Lutine wreck at the Zuyder Zee. Divers led by Captain Gardiner and Baillie risked tides and timber to locate the chest. calm seas may enable final salvage within days.
Paris dispatch describes French soldiers fighting in Morocco amid alleged cruelties by Moroccans. A private recounts bayonet drives, abductions, and brutal killings near Fez and the Gour region, with graphic lines about severed heads and mutilation.
Fraulein Brunhilde, an eight foot tall 18 year old from Berlin weighing 280 pounds, arrives in London and describes the world as tiny. She notes police, taxis, trams, and dollhouse sized doors look diminutive beside her, requiring a specially built car and large house with high ceilings.
In Warsaw during the first seven months, the press faced drastic penalties with every paper fined. Cumulative fines reached 30,925 dollars across 198 offenses. The Kief Myst was fined eight times and twenty editors have been imprisoned since January.
Dublin dispatch recounts a polite duel of letters between the Countess of Aberdeen and Lady Arthur Paget over accusations that Americans at a royal ball danced a variant of the turkey trot. Lady Paget defended Americans and denied any conduct violating decorum.
At a Gottingen students supper a participant toasted France, claiming it was not Germany’s greatest enemy. He was fined 20 marks by the sheriff's court for slighting the emperor's toast and the case moves to the court of appeals.
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