OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1405, 15 October 1885, Page 2

OUR EUROPEAN LETTER.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

Paris, Aug, 15, 1885,

An article in the Paris Temps at the commencement of the month, calling attention to the insufficient cavalry force on the eastern frontier, appears to have caused a great sensation in Germany, to judge from the manner in which it has been talon up by the official papers, which affects to regard it as a sign that France still harbors the desire of a war of revenge. The North German Gazette remarks!—“ We have been accustomed to the warlike sentiments which are constantly manifested beyond the Vosges, and, although we do not confound the French nation with the Paris chaurinist, we think it our duty to watch those phenomena, and to arouse the attention of the two nations in the interests of peace, when statesmen and superior officers or influential journals preifbh war against Germany, and declare, like the Temps or M. de Cassagnac recently, that war in the Vosges is imminent and constitutes the unvarying object of the policy of any Government in France. The article of the Temps has greater importance as a symptom than the bluster of Dervul&de, or the rage of Cassagnac. The Temps i* the directing organ of the moderate Republican party, and represents that numerous class of quiet, wealthy citizens whose opinions on peace or war have so great a weight on the Government, That journal has always been directed with prudence, and has taken for pattern the English Times, in so far as it endeavors to reflect public opinion rather than guide it. If, therefore, the Temps abandon itself to a Chaurinist propaganda, this is the proof that the pacific development of neighborly relations, such as Germany is endeavoring to obtain from France, is not to the taste of the readers of the Temps, and that all our efforts io maintain cordial relations with France, and to pursue a policy of reconciliation, have so far not been crowned with success, and have met with no reciprocity.” The conclusion of the article of the North German Gazette is that it is involuntarily forced to believe that France is only watching ‘for a favorable opportunity to attack Germany, either singlehanded or in alliance with others. The Temps, in return, expresses its surprise at the storm raised by a simple military criticism on a question which had really been started in a German paper—the International Military and Naval Review, published in Hanover—and treats the anger of the Berlin journols as only simulated, and as a Parliamentary manoeuvre to obtain from the ;Reichstag addi tional credits for military purposesThe Vienna journals generally condemn the article of the North German Gazette, or endeavor to attenuate the effect of it. The Tagblatt is of opinion that the design of the article is to prevent candidates in the coming French elections from attempting to win popularity by appealing to ideas of revenge. The meeting of the German Emperor and the Emperor of Austria took place at Garteio on the 7th July. The former visited the Emperor and Empress of Austria at their hotel. The latter received His Majesty at the foot of the staircase, and accompanied him to the reception room. After the Emperor William had stayed half-an-hour with the Emperor and Empress of Austria at their hotel, the Empress Isft in order to

take a walk, the two Emperors remaining alone in conversation for a short time. After dinner, at twe o’clock, in the Badeschloss, the Emperor and Empress of Austria took their departure and returned to their hotel, to which, a little later the Emperor William repaired to pay a farewell visit. French M inister for War baa received from General de Courcy a despatch dated, dated Haiphong, August 12, at 7 in the morning. The General nanounces that he has arrived in that town to establish his headquarters there during the cholera epidemic. On the 10th inst. the number of sick was 64; on the 11th 19 fresh cases wore recorded, all outside the hospital, and the number of deaths on that day was 17. On the 12th there remained 66 patients more or less severely attacked. The spirit of the troops is excellent.