War Rumours

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 100, 1 March 1887, Page 2

War Rumours

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright

[eEUTEE's TELKGEAMB.] London, February 26. The Bussian press is violently attacking Germany.

Fifty thousand cavalry are now quartered in Poland and Lithunia. The St, Petersburg Novosti predicts that Europe is rapidly approaching a catastrophe.

It is reported that the Emperor William has said that the result of the elections has assured peace.

Austrian diplomatists declare that Germany and Austria have exhausted their endeavors to preserve peace with Eussia.

Eussia is feverishly preparing for war, and special steps are being pursued in the fortification of Poland,

The French press are clamoring for a further increase in the army.

February 28

The Russian press accuses Germany and England of thwarting the settlement of the Bulgarian question.

Germany, Italy, and Austria mutually, guarantee their territorial integrity for a period of five years. The Russians are actively engaged massing troops, not only in Poland, but also at Kieff and the principal towns on the Dnieper. There is a considerable tension between China and Eussia owing to another dispute over the Kuldja frontier. A conflict between the two nations is feared, as China has massed a large force in the disputed country.

The Cologne Gazette explains the triple alliance to mean that Italy will support Germany if attacked by France, but remain neutral in the event of an A ustro-Ruseian war.