GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1749, 25 January 1888, Page 3

GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

The " Pester Lloyd " publishes a semiofficial communication, stating that tbe recent inter viow between the Cznr and Prince Bismarck was of a dramatic character. The Imperial Chancellor, who, it is alleged, was scarcely able to restrain his passion, informed the Czar that His Majesty had been deceived by forgeries. After hearing tbe explanations of the Imperial Chano?llor, the Czar positively assured Prince Bitruarck that be d' sired the maintenance of peace, and willingly repeated the assurance that he content! plated neither an attack on Germany nor participation m a coa ition directed againet Germany, Prince Bismarck thereupon, according to the "Pester Lloyd's" account, begged the Czar to remember the German alliance, and plainly declared tha whoever wished to live at peace with Germany must not attack her allies, and presented the casua fadtris so clearly to the Czar's tuind that his Majesty admitted that the viewß expressed by the Imperial Ohahoollor on this matter were, as a matter of foot, no revelation, they were In no way surprising, nor did they contain anything that was new to h ; m. The Czar added that he tjok note of the d( cinr Ation that vierrnany , as he had never doubto ', regarded her treaty obligations srrously. The aemiofficia 1 communication lays str ss on the fact that Prince Binaurck succeeded m putting matters m euch a light as to elicit from the 02 ir the declaration that he willingly supplemented h s previous assurance ty the statement that what he had BaM as regard b Geimany had quite equal force as applied to Austria-Hungary, it being of oourßo undoratood that no provocation be given to Russia from that quarter, a supposition which his Majesty considered as ont of the question