FRANCE AND GERMANY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 250, 3 April 1880, Page 2

FRANCE AND GERMANY.

A visit to Franco or Germany will entirely disabuse anyone ot the idea, which some of our journals have tried to put forth, of t e existence of a hotter feeling between these two nations. Moth are armed at an expense they can ill afford, pimply to keep each other in awe. The one idea of Frenchmen is to conquer

! back 1 If-;*. .» sat 5 Metz. 1c is natural' 1 tha'; Li mi mick should piess Austria to t renew Jnr encroachments on Turkey, ■ which hr.va already cost her 25,000 ■ K-d-iiers and u largo deficit hi her revenue as ia lla' 1 spring of lc>7® she had farmed ' a secret iivuty. with Franco against v j Genuai:;-;. £f she is really to undertake 1 the control id' tin- Balkan peninsula, that task will paralyze hsr action in every : other direction for many a long day. Holland posses fine ports ; and after Prince of Orange a German princess is j the ne<t heir ; so the unfortunate son j of the eccentric Kii g William 111. has boon an object for-t-ie columns of the German Press ever since his brother died in Paris. Ha has lately written a pamphlet to defend himself, but it will bo of little avail. He stands in the way ’ of the German succession, and that is reason enough. for him to be accused of even vice.—-Churchman’s Magazine.