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Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1900. More Rumours of War.

Writing from London regarding the loss on the Paris Exhibition, Mr W. H. Lucy says in the Sydney Morning Herald : — " That is a burden of loss the State will have to bear. It may perhaps, doubtless will, be balanced ] by revenues drawn from other sources. But those revenues taking the form of rents charged upon exhibitors and the enterprising proprietors of side shows are really crushing in their'

enormity, i hear from a member of the English commission just returned from Paris that most of the showmen are on the verge of bankruptcy. They have paid enormous sums for sites and structures, and their takings have been hopelessly inadequate to cover even these first charges. A capital of something like two and a half millions was invested in these enterprises It is all gone, without hope of return. These are circumstances calculated to aggravate any pre-existing tendency towards quarrelling. The failure of the Exhibition is due to a variety of causes, not the least powerful the war in South Africa. That is England's affair, and coming on top of the avowed intention to boycott the show by way of reprisal for attacks on the Queen, it suffices to convince Frenchmen that the real culprit is their neighbour across the Channel. There are not lacking prophets who, considering these things, are able to announce an outbreak of war with Prance as soon as the affairs of the I Exhibition are wound up. With Germany watchful on her flank, with Sedan unavenged, Alsace and Lor* raine still in the grip of the German, that would be a suicida' undertaking, worse even than Oom Paul's ultimatum. It is an apprehension of recent birth and growing persistency. But it is not a novel idea. Nearly a year ago, before he set out for his command in the Mediterranean, Lord Charles Beresford confided to me his assured belief, for which he claimed substantial grounds, that France meant to pick a quarrel with this country, and that the two nations would be at each other's throat before the last days of tho century."

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Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1900, Page 2

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Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1900. More Rumours of War. Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1900, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, NOV. 3, 1900. More Rumours of War. Manawatu Herald, 3 November 1900, Page 2

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