TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND SOUTH GERMANY.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 21, 10 June 1867, Page 135

TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND SOUTH GERMANY.

The grave news, observes La Temps (Paris), March 21, which was brought yesterday by the telegraph, is fully confirmed to-day; the revelations made by M. von Bismark in the Parliament of the new Confederation as to the union of the Soujh and North of Germany, were only the prelude of official publications of a nature to produce the deepest impression in Europe, and particularly in France. An alliance is concluded between Prussia and that part of the great German whole which the peace of Prague had left out of the Prussian hegemony, an unconditional offensive and defensive alliance; that is to say, the subordination of the small Southern States to the direction aud will of the Cabinet of Berlin. And this alliance does not date from yesterday, but from the morrow of the Austro-Prussian war. The treaties which sanctioned it were at first to remain secret; but M. von Bismark now thinks the time come to rend all veils: and it is the very moment when our interpellations have just finished, that he thinks opportune to inform the world that for seven months past there has no longer been auy line of the Main .