EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1746, 5 June 1888, Page 1

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Paris. May 31. The French people declare that Bismarck and Tisza are endeavoring to create a panic in order more successfully to obtain a credit vote for supplying the troops with Tramond-Leple rifles.

June 1.

M. Goblet states that Hungary had a perfect right to abstain from exhibiting at the Paris Exhibition, and had nothing to fear from breaking her pledge to exhibit. But if the neighbors of Prance prejudice her interests Franco will take her own way to retaliate. He mentioned that his policy was directed towards maintaining the peace of Europe. June 2. One of the members of the Chamber of Deputies has introduced a Bill to enforce passport reprisals with Germany. It is stated that tbd measure was inspired by General Boulanger. Vienna, June 1. The amount of the credit vote asked by the Premier is forty-seven million florins. London, June J, , In the House of Commons, Mr Labouchere said that Lord Salisbury bad insulted France by refusing to be officially represented at the Paris Exhibition, Mr Smith, in reply, stated that the action of England was amicably understood. There was, be mentioned, undoubted danger of a European war, but he trusted that an outbreak between Germany and France would be prevented, as both were allies of England,