GERMANY AND FRANCE.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1202, 5 June 1872, Page 2

GERMANY AND FRANCE.

A New York: despatch, of -April. 23, says :— The latest mail advices from Europe > treat largely of the threatening relations* between Germany and France. From London financial circles .comes a report that Russia is at tfie back of France, and 'is making preparations for an aggressive war against Germany on a gigantic scale. European capitalists are acting with caution, and regard the future with distrust.,:. The Bank of England is using its best efforts to encourage speculation and strengthen its own condition. France still owes Germany 600,000,000 dollars, and Germany still holds as security the six Eastern Departments of France, with about 40,000 men. If Thiers should make up his niind that the time has armed, it is in his power to throw, against this force with suddenness 450,000 men. Reports received in Berlin from Germans in France assert that Thiers has 480,000 men armed and ready to move. They are excellently drilled, and toughened by life in huts and fields. This is said .to be in fact about double the effective force with which Napoleon began the last war. As to the alliance with Russia, Thiers, in his adjournment speech, claimed that France/ had allies, but had no intention to make 1 war. He was interrupted by a member, who asked who these allies were. . : .