THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2288, 27 November 1889, Page 2

THE PROSPECTS OF PEACE

lhe Information reaqhes tbe Vianna correspondent, of the »« Daily Telegraph " from an QPimpesahrblQ aoaroe:-Ip Armenia affair* are about aa bad as can bo -as to that thero is no question,: On tbe Knußfati aide overythiug Is beine made ready for a •• walk over " tbe frontier at ehort notioe. . The Bassiari praparations ere m fact, on a far larg.r aoale that those mado for the last war. Oq the lnricisn aide there aro no preparations, or a»fc to nono, aa far as Erzoroum-the Kuealar) objaotive— isoouoern,ad. Rusaia's next advance on Constantinople will not bo made through, the Balkan Peninsula lhere i*, however, litt'e danger of a win/or campaign ; indeed there aro manifold symptoms that justify the hope, expressed « few d*yß af.u by Prime Mint Bter Tifz», of peeing poaoa maintained for-. tLepreaent. For |> stance, the Emperor of Germany's approaching visit to Athena and Constantinople would hwdly be undertaken If war wera Imminent. Then eun^ry preparation 0 < pwamoant Impoitino?, Buqh, m the oonarruotlon of fltrat9glor^liroa'J«, which it Mill take aoma montha to pomp'ete, have Utaly bean commenced, and that woald not have boon done if war were at hand j thfa can be aaid, it would be raßh to entertain broguino expeotations as to a prolonged era of.poao*. Everything poiuta on the contrary, to evenla of the utmost; « W v4ty for the coming aprlng. T^e opinion both at Court and m woJUnforroed politioul «»/r. clea lotha t^ P r ? Bent strained. bUuation SS m ° W tbftD Bk or ci fi ht raonth9 J