THE POWERS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10155, 29 December 1910, Page 5

THE POWERS

RUSSIA AND JAPAN.

FRENCH MINISTER INTER- •■':■ • VIKWEK

{Received Last .Night-. 10 o'clock.)

PARIS. December 28. The newspaper Lt--Temps interviewed M. Paul Eugene i.Vsellanel, Minis»ter for External Affairs, who declared that the Rii:?so-.i;:|u'.iiese. agreement had enabled.. to resume her position hvtbe councils of Europe. ■ It would, he said, prove a great ■ -source of weal:iicss to the Triple Alliance if fresii complications, o; changes in the balance-of'power,'were ' to'occiir in the. ne.'ir East. France was-, lute in realizing the -essentiality of the. Nationalist character of the ; ,Yoi:tig Turk revolution. 1 Though Turkey momentarily inclined to Teutonic Powers, in order to .counterbalance the, Slav-Hellenic \ .influences, Turkey will ultimately not favour any particular Power. France's |..' rcsoiirci.'u provided an incomparable weapon, which ought to be subservient to her policy. Mr. Deschanel added :—.-"Men - like Lords Roberts, Kitchener, and Beres."fordj Messrs Balfour. -FTaldane and Robert Blatchforu, point otit the conrtrast feetween Britain's diplomacy, v which has become Continental, and Britain's system ol clefenfee, which remains insular. All agree upon the necessity for effort." *