FIFTY YEARS AGO

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22400, 22 April 1936, Page 10

FIFTY YEARS AGO

TENSION IN EUROPE The present international tension in Europe may well be compared with that of 50 years ago. The following extract was taken from the New Zealand Herald of April 22, 1886: — "Events in the Mediterranean and on the Aegean coast are tending it will seem to hostilities soon commencing between Greece and Turkey. According to telegrams received to-day the troop, quartered at Athens have been orc!^ to proceed to the frontier and an attach on the Turks by the Greek forces is said to be imminent. The Powers a forced to observe inaction owing, i . believed, to the obstruction of Hussia. All along it has appeared that the wa • like and defiant attitude of Greec - wholly inexplicable, except on tlie si ppositioji that she has been secretly stigated and abetted by one or inor» of the Great Powers, while ostensibly acting in concert with the others the preservation of peace. On _ . point there can be no longer . doubt. The threatened contest bettr Turkey and Greece may appear o only a small affair, but it is that , it may lead to that has to be thoug. of, as it may be accepted as ce» that hostilities once commenced on i" frontiers of these two States are tain to be followed by a European war." .•*