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Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1888, Page 2

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' THE NEW AND THE OLD TREATY. OPINIONS OF THE EUROPEAN PRESS. AN ENGLISH MISSION TO GERMANY. WAITING FOR BISMARCK'S SPEECH. I I SPECIAL. | (Received February 8, 11 p.m.) London, 4th February. The new Triple Alliance Treaty is procisoly uimilar to that of the alliance entered, into by Germany apd Austria in 1879, Italy being simply admitted in the later treatyThe publication of the text of the treaty is considered to be the turning point in thehistory of the present situation, and ia regarded as the lost warning to Rossi*. Vienna, sth February. The newspapers here repudiate the idoa that the publication of the treaty has any warlike meaning, and state that the only objeot was to enlighten and re-asauro Europe on the matter. Pabib, sth February. The press here, in commenting on the publication of the treaty, remark that it will happily have the effeofc of influencing; the amicable relations between Prance and Rußsia, and deepen the abyss between Germany and the latter Power. Dcs Debata regards it as a cannon shot of alarm. St. Petersburg, sth February. The Journal de St. Petersburg says that the terms of the Allianco shows that Austria and Germany have reßolved to maintain peace, and expresses a hope that they will be successful in doing so. 6th February. The publication of the Alliance Treaty has been received with tranquility here, but the speech of Prince Bismarck in the BeichBtag to-night is anxiously awaited. Bbeun, sth February. The Earl of Fife has arrived in tbii oity, and has received a visit from Count Herbert Bismarck. It is believed that bis Lordship is on a mission to Germany.