RUSSIA AND ENGLAND.
Whatever the final result of the AngloRussian difficulty may be, remarks a London contemporary, there is no doubt m Berlin that it will have proved disas^trous to thousands who have been and are continuing to speculate on the Bourse on the chances of war or peace. Nothing can be more revolting than to see the men who have been playing for the biusse rejoice heartily at the slightest piece •of • intelligence which hints at the probability of a great war breaking out, and destroying the lives of thousands and thousands. Nothing can be more revolting than to see these hard-hearted boursiers. who have m their hands the '.inanea of half Europe, and appear to have no home and no affections save m their coffres forts, sigh for peace simp! v because they have been playing for the kaum. Empires preparing to contest supremacy over millions ot inhabitants are looked .upon as horses preparing to run a race, and the destinies of Europe are only a gambling table which is producing at this moment m Berlin, as m Paris, results qwite as disastrous as those recorded daily at Monte Carlo.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 23, 25 June 1885, Page 2
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192RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 23, 25 June 1885, Page 2
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