EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3940, 16 October 1891, Page 2

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

If. De (Hers Visits Italy-

Russian Intrigue In Italy.

The Bulgarian Was Tote.

The Dardanelles Question. A Sensational Publication. Rome, October 18,

The Marquis Ludini met Af. de Giers at Milan, and travelled with him to Monza, where the party lunched with King Humbert. The J?Fepch pilgrims qh their way home were greeted with gayage cries at many of the railway stations. Berlin, October Is.

M. de Giers is credited in Berlin with the attempt to detaeh Italy from this Triple Alliance.

The massing of Russian troops in Besarabia has decided Roumania to co-operate with Germany and Austria in stopping the passage of Russian troops through Roumania. Sofia, October 14.

M. Stambouloff will ask the Sobranje to vote twenty-three million francs for the purpose of fortifying Varna, Rustcliuk, Semendria, and Siiistria.

London, October 14

Lord Salisbury, in his reply to the Turkish note, assumes that any privilege vpith respe.ct f.,0 the Dardanelles copceded to Russia yi}l .equally belong fco England.. Parjs, October 13.

M. Lockroy, French journalist and politician, has published a book on the military situation. He considers tho French coast in the event of war would be at the mercy of the Triple Alliance, but is of opinion itlie differential tariff has weakened the adhesion of' Italy. He assents that .the British Empire is vulnerable at every point, and ppropeeds to say thai the French arms are powder and unrivalled, and will pay a formidable part in the next war. The share France will take is unknown, but M. Lockroy declares her military organisation is sufficiently powerful to destroy the whole people of any nation opposed to her. '