THREATENING ASPECT OF FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 173, 28 June 1872, Page 3

THREATENING ASPECT OF FRANCE AND GERMANY.

The latest mail ad vices from Europe treat largely of the threatening relations between Germany and France. From London financial circles comes a report that Eussia is at the back of Stance, 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 B*ink 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 mind that the time has now arrived, 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 485,000 men and arms 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 Eussia, Thiers, in Iris adjournment speech, claimed that France had allies, but had no intention to make war. He was interrupted by a member who a3ked who these allies were." ™