EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 83, 22 December 1887, Page 2

EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.

STATE RENTS FALLEN, EQUIPING THE LANDWEHR RESERVES PANIC ON VIENNA BOURSE. ERECTING HUTS - FOR 200,000 MEN. Vienna, December 20. A panic occurred on the Bourse on Friday and Saturday. It is estimated that two hundred million francs were lost through the panic on the Bourse on Saturday. The State rents have fallen during the past eight weeks. The Council have decided to expend twenty million florins for ths equipment of the Landwehr reserves, and the erection of huts in Galicia.

Ths Delegations have not yet been sum" monad. The Government have decided to ereo t huts in Galicia for two hundred thousand troops. The huts for the troops in Galicia are to be erected with the utmost expedition, THE INVALIDE RUSSE. THE ARTICLE ORDERED BY THE CZAR TO BE PUBLISHED. THE VIEWS OF THE RUSSIAN COURT GEN. GURKO'S OPINION. A FOREBODING SPEECH. London, December 20. It is generally believed that the article in the Invalide Busse expresses tha views of the Czar and the Russian court. The Daily News avers that the Czar specially ordered the publication of the article in the Invalide Russe. General Gurko is stated to have said that it is only dependent on the seasons when war will break out.

The massing of Russian troops in Poland still continues.

Speaking at Derby the Marquis of Salisbury said he thought that hostilities will break out on the Continent without any warning, and it would be neccessary that England should be prepared.

FRANCE PREPARING. Pams, December 20. The French forts in the Alpine passes are being strengthened.

A rsw weeks before the massing of troops on the Austrian frontier, an announcement appeared in the Independence Beige which serves to account for the attitude of apparent indifference of Austria at the time regarding it. The stateipent is as follows : — One of our German correspondents writes that in certain diplomatic circles it is believed that the reconstitution of Poland is one of Ilia articles of the treaty of alliance between Germany and Austria. The Courts of Berlin and Vienna have long been agreed on this point. Poland ie to be made a sort of Belgium, to serve as a buffer between Russia and Austria.

In case of war with Russia, three Austrian armies would be formed in Galicia—two »o invade Volhyuia and Pudolia, while the third combining us action with tue German forces, would occupy Lithuania and Russian Poland, which latter would be declared independent at the very outset of hostilities.