The Archive · 1887

FRANCE AND GERMANY—PROSPECTS OF WAR

Tus telegrams which we publish to.day are not calculated, on the first reading, to renssare those who hope that 1887, will pass without a war in Europe, The despatch which we published on Friday, announcing that Prince Biss marck bad formally declared that war with France was inevitable, was sufi. ciently alarming; but those who hope for peace comforted themselves with the thought that the Prince's dictum was & purposed exaggeration, ured aa an argoment to persuade the German Pare liament to pass the Government, bill for the increase of the peace estublistimont of the German army to some 470,000 men. Toeday we learn that the speech

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