EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3005, 17 October 1891, Page 2

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

(nV EUXTHIC TUt-K'iHM'll—(.'ol-yp.inilT). IioME, October 11. Maiiquis ituniXl nn't M. dcGii-rs at Milan, and travelled with him to Mon/.n. where the party liinehed with Kiiiir Humbert. Hr.Kl.l.v, Oelnb-T 1 IM. d" fliers i> credit"! in Berlin with an aft>>iniit to d"tach Italy from tin- Triple Alli:;ll<-. Tip- iiuis-inLj of llir-'-i:!!! (r.mp* in Rosnrabia bus rI. -r-i ■ 1 -. i i;.>,P-rriiL ti co-operate with ( rTiiiawy and Austria in Stopping 111" passage, of Jtns.sian trooj)S through Rnunnuiii. I'.UMn ()i:!ob.'r 1 !. M. Loekrny. n French journalist and polilici■■in, has published a. book on tlii' military situation, which has caused a considerable sensation. JJ.ts considers tho Fn'iH'.h coast in tho event of war, would bn nt (he, inorcy of tho Triple Vllianeo, lint is of opinion that, that the differential iririir has weakened the adhesion of Italy. He asserts the British Empire is vulnerable at every point, and proceeds to say the French arms and powder are unrivalled, rind will play a formidable part in the next war. The share France will ta'lco is unknown, lint M. Lockroy declares her military organisation is sufficiently powerful to destroy the people of any nation opposed to her. Sofia, October M. M. StambonlofT will ask the Sobrenjo to vote 23,01)0,(100 francos for the purpose of fortifying Varna, liustchuk. Somendria, and Silistria. Coxstantixoplk, October 14. The Porte intends to totally disarm the Albanians in order to put a stop to the blood feuds in that country. Thirty battalions of troops will be needed to carry out the operation. London, October 14. Lord Salisbury, in his reply to the Turkish note, assumes tbat any privilege with respect to the Dardanelles conceded to liussia will equally belong to England. Mr"" Chamberlain assorts that Mr Gladstone's programme, as set out in bis Newcastle speech, is absurd, and dishonest and that scuttling from Egypt is cowardly-