GERMANY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9452, 24 August 1889, Page 3

GERMANY.

TO THE EDITOR.

SrR, —In a leader in the Herald I read : —"Prince Bismarck has such divers and great) reasons for bringing on the war as soon as possible, that he may be relied upon to do so. . . . When the famous Bismarck and De Criers' arrangement was ruptured by the public dissatisfaction in the two countries, it transpired that each Empire was to have a free hand at its own side of Europe ; which would mean that Russia would throw over France, and Germany Austria. The arrangement was temporarily suspended; bub there has been again unmistakeable evidence of its. revival." Similar statements, evidently by the same pen, have appeared in the Herald many times for several years. Any statements, if only persistently repeated, and not called into question, will find large numbers of believers. I, therefore, ask you to kindly give the facts supporting these statements. I have numerous hard and undisputed facts, which all point in a quite different direction, but 1 refrain from quoting them till I have seen the evidence on the other side. What, therefore, are Bismarck's divers and great reasons for bringing on war as soon as possible ; on what basis rests the assertion that Bismarck ever made any arrangement with De Criers for changing the map of Europe ; and in what consists the unmistakeable evidence that Germany has thrown over Austria for a Russian alliance these last two or three years ?— am, &c., R. Frtckk. Penrose, August 21, ISS9.