WILL THERE BE WAR? VIEWS OF VIENNA JOURNALS ON THE SUBJECT.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 341, 9 February 1889, Page 3

WILL THERE BE WAR? VIEWS OF VIENNA JOURNALS ON THE SUBJECT.

A cable special to the " Mail and Express " from London says : Ifc is a curious coincidence fchab nearly all the Vienna journals in their usual annual survey of the political situation at home and abroad take as a text for their comments Salisbury's pertinent question, " Where will ifc end ?" The " Fremdenblatt," discussing the question, " What will the present condition of armed peace throughout Europe eventually lead to ?" bases its hopes of a favourable issue uron the triple alliance, upon the sen«e of personal responsibility which exists in different peoples and in their rulers, as acknowledged on all hands in the general compulsory military service which is the rule among the great power. The " Fremdenblatb " concludes that peace is not too dearly purchased by sacrifices which are imposed upon the people, as they really have an adequate value in return in the fact of 'ohe maintenance of peace. The "NeueFreiePresse " quotes the celebrated political writer, Friedrich Vongentz, to the effect that Europe fell through Germany, and it is through Germany that she must rise again. Starting iroin this view of the situation the " Neve Freie Pie&se" proceeds to advise Kaiser Wilhelm to use his influence to endeavour to bring about an understanding among the great nations which are now standing face to face, armed to the teeth. This task the newspaper insists is the more urgent, as ifc is chiefly the incapability of the weakest of these nations to bear the burden of heavy and continued armament that increasingly threatens war ; and holds menacingly over the heads of the people all the horrors of a general conflict and endless misery to Europe. Count; Yon Taaffe's organ, the "Presse," asserts the belief that the question of a European war or peace is not likely to be settled before the struggle is decided in France between the republic and Boulauger. This is the tone of anxious expectancy which i 3 heard everywhere in all circles throughout Europe. Scarcely any sudden development would surprise the people.