AMERICAN NOTES.
AUSTRIA BREAKING UP. ""^
The Austrian Empire is declared tat bo threatened with disintegration, race hatred is at white heat, owing t_ the Work of Ultramontanes and Anti* Semites. Between Czech and Teuton^ there seems even Jess room for true, and Parliamentary proceedings ar. little more influential hum stree. fights. The nation may not even las. so long as the aged Emperor, a__ some believe, the German EmperOr la casting an envious eye towards the: German portions of the Austrian dominions, i BIG GERMAN NAVY. :'p Emperor William is determined to have a great navy, and it is stated ha is looking for a new Cabinet principally because he is unable to induce the present one to push sufficiently; before the Reichstag his Wishes in this respect. Admiral Yon Tirpitz, Seere* tary of the N_vy, received His Ma«? jesty's sanction to a project for art enormous increase of the navy, giving it fifty-seven battleships, fifteen large and thirty-six small cruisers, and making the navy second only to Great Britain's. The agrarian press .:&- sures the Emp< ror of support in his naval project if iie will dr..p the canal* scheme. The Emperor believes that since great changes in the condition of the Powers incident to Lie SpanishAmerican war and seizin-, of Kiao Chou, it would be suicidal and tantamount to abdication as a Great Power for Germany to stick to its present? naval programme. '__
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 277, 22 November 1899, Page 3
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