The Vienna Gazette, as a friend, is a friend. The police do not trouble them, it is not even necessary to produce a passport for a short visit. Many French citizens have remained in Vienna and ran talk in their own language on the streets unmolested. The Viennese show no great hatred for any of their enemies, except the Italians, against whom they are fearfully bitter.

In Berlin, the war seems much more in evidence. There are more military trains carrying troops against the Russians, and large numbers of German soldiers are going down to the trenches. Then there are great consignments of grain and petroleum and other products passing through Hungary from Romania to Germany. This last is a very significant indication of the new political and economic developments going on between the central powers and the Balkans. The war has brought the United States, countries which closer together, having shown Germany and Austria how absolutely essential it is to maintain open communication through the Balkans with Turkey and the Near East. Important conferences have been held lately in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, and other German cities, with regard to improving and developing the Danube navigation and constructing canal communications between that river and the principal rivers in Germany. 