"DAS IST DIE FRAGE."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8928, 17 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

"DAS IST DIE FRAGE."

PRINCE BISMARCK ENUMERATES THE SUBJECTS WHICH HE DID NOT DISCUSS.

London, October 22.—A distinguished German professor, who has just arrived here, furnishes an account of an interview which he had a few days ago with Prince Bismarck, in which tho latter referred at some length to his interview with the Italian Prima Minister Crispi, Prince Bismarck said:—"Anyone may know what we did not do, what we did not discuss, and what we did not determine, and yon are quito at liberty to publish what I tell yon, and to affirm that you had it from me in person. In the first place, we did not parcel out any other people's territories, or set up any speculative princes. We did not settle the Bulgarian question, nor decide what should be done with Ayoub Khan, nor resolve to demand the liberation of Arabi Pasha, nor the reinstatement of Dhuleep Singh. We did not concoct any new fiscal system, nor devise means to regulate commercial relations. Not being between ourselves we did not discuss the annexation of Holland, Belgium, and Zanzibar, or even Samoa, by Germany, or Macedonia by Austria, or of Albania and Tripoli by Italy. We did not da vise any sohems for the partition of Morocso between ourselves. We did not occupy ourselves with the aspirations of the Papacy or with the family differences , between the Vatican and the Quirinal. Wo did not consider the policy ot threatening England with a coalition against her unless she should join us out and out to divide the Saltan's domain between us, It did not occur to us to call upon France to disarm, and to send General Boulanger to Cayenne or Noumea, or to oall upon Russia to keep her plaster of Paris loans and her Nihilists to herself. In faot, we did not meddle with other people's affairs. We have quite enough to do to manage those whioh concern ' ourselves and to keep an inflammatory people from provoking war, and the Socialists, Anarchists, Intransiegents, Irredentists, and other filibusters from turning society upside down. Das istdie Fragc."