One morning the inhabitants of the city awoke to find the town covered
with flaming red placards.

Some of them read, "No new compact between Austria and Hungary"; and
others, "No language laws. German is the national language."

These placards naturally aroused a great deal of angry feeling between
the opposing parties. The police tore them down, and made every effort
to find the persons who had posted them, but without any result.

* * * * *

The Treaty of Peace between Turkey and Greece has been finally signed by
the Powers interested.

Little notice has, however, been taken of the fact; matters in Europe
are looking so threatening that the affair of Greece is almost
forgotten.

It is said that war will break out in the Balkan provinces in the
spring, a war which will involve both Turkey and Austria.

The Balkan provinces are Servia, Roumania, Bulgaria, and Montenegro. If
you look at your map, you will see that they lie between Hungary and
Turkey.

The Sultan of Turkey is so convinced that such a war cannot be avoided,
that he is doing everything in his power to raise money for it.

He has given orders that the taxes must all be collected by the new