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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2726, 2 January 1890, Page 2

Louis Kossuth, ex-Governor of Hungary, thinks war between Russia and Austria inevitable. The old war horse thinks, too, that Austria's danger will lie in her being taken at an unprepared moment. Kossuth is getting on for ninety years of age, but his eye is not dim, nor his force abated. In the revolution of 1848 what a space he filled as Governor, really King of Hungary. Austria was then beaten, and the Czar Nicholas had to come to her aid. It took an addition of 250,000 Russians to the largo Austrian army to suppress the Hungarian revolt. Even with them the treachery or weakness of one of the Hungarian generals did more for the Russians than their quarter million of bayonets. How the world has changed since then. Where is Marshall Hainau, of women-beating notoriety, who met with such summary treatment from Barclay and Perkins, draymen of Loudon? Where is Nicholas himself who then strode as a collosus in Europe? To hear of Kossuth now will revive many a half lost memory. It is like the voice of one raised from the dead. His long exit and silence made him almost, if not quite, forgotten.