A CURIOUS STORY.
A very curious and rather remarkable story is telegraphed to the "Edinburgh Express"-by a special correspondent at Madrid, who professes to have had a private interview with Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Prime Minister of Spain. This interviewer reports that the Spanish Premier believes that the inevitable conflict between England and the Continental Powers, after having been in preparation over half a centuary, is now at hand/ The Berlin ConferenQe may give occasion to it, Tlio inijrease of tho Continental navies, and the feverish lust after colonial possessionsshownby France and Germany, are symptoms of the approaching crisis for this attack on English supremacy, Germany, the Premier thinks, will take tho lead. In conclusion, Senor Canovas expressed the hope that a great European war might be averted, but the indication was all tho other way, If Senor Canovas (says a Homo paper) thinks that Germany js about to heat] a European attack on England by sea and land it only shows that in spain as elsewhere, people may get to the top without any capacity for discerning the most obvious of facts. Prince Bismarck may be unfriendly enough just now, but war—that is another affair. ■
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 13 January 1885, Page 2
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197A CURIOUS STORY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 13 January 1885, Page 2
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