ANNEXATION.
ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENTAL POWERS. A very curious story is telegraphed teethe Edinburgh Express by a special correspondent at Madiid, who professes to have had a private interview with Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Prime Minister of Spain, This interviewer reports that the Spanish Premier believes that the inevitable conflict between England and the Continental Powers after having been in preparation over half a century, is now at hand. The Berlin Conference maygive occasion to it. The increase of the Continental navies, and the feverish . lust after colonial possessions shown by France and Germany, are symptoms of the approaching crisis for this attack on English supremacy. Germany, the Premier thinks, will take the lead. In conclusion, Senor Canovas expressed a hope that a great European war might be averted, but the indication was all the other way. If Senor Canovas (says a Home paper) thinks that Germany is about to bead a .European attack on England by sea and land it only shows that in Spain as elsewhere people may get to the top without any capacity for discerning the most obvious "*■ of facts, Prince Bismarck may be friendly enough just now, but war—that is another affair.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2605, 12 January 1885, Page 3
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198ANNEXATION. Kumara Times, Issue 2605, 12 January 1885, Page 3
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