THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4467, 21 September 1901, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE TRIPLE ALLIANCE

' PLOTTING AGAINST IT.

Ax intrigue xgainst the Triple Alii' ance, or rather against the Austro* German Alliance, has come te lignt, in which the names of M. Delcasse and other' eminent Frenchmen, of high Russian dignitaries, and even of tho Czar himself, are curiously mixed up with those of tho Hungarian Deputy. M. Ugron, Baron Rieger, the ex-lead-er of the Old Czeohsj and a certain Dr Binder. M. Ugron is one of the leaders of a ten*man Party in the Hungarian Chamber, a fraction cf the Party of Independence. This fraction, to the disgust cf the Kossuthists, returned as member of the Hungarian Delegation M. Ugron, who in that body made it his business to denounce the Triple Alliance. *and prepare the way for another alliance, which he did net expressly designate, though as there are onlj two groups on the Coil' tinent, not much doubt existed as to his meaning. His attacks on Germany procured a sort of notoriety for him abroad. Among his friends, up till lately, was Dr. Julius Binder, also a Hungarian, who retired, some nine years ago, from the post of secretary at the Vienna Foreign Office. Since his retirement, Dr. Hinder has lived in Paris and Bud* Pesth, and it seems to have , been his ambition to break up the Triple League and to bring about an Alliance of Austria-Hungary with Franco and Russia, v The “Neues Wiener ■ Tagblatt” publishes an account coming from “an intimate friend of M. Delcasse” of what took place between the French Minister for Foreign Affairs and Herr Rim' ler. He begins by saying that M. Delcasse himself considers the • whole incident as “une affaire negligeahle.” It happened about two years ago. M. Delcasse received Herr Rimler at the Quai D’Orsay. Ho had obtained an audience by invoking the name of the Hungarian Deputy,, M. Ugron, who had served France in 1870, and hy 'Presenting a letter signed M. Poincare, the former French Minister. This secured him a polite reception. The conversation first turned upon Hungary then upon France and Hungary,- and lastly upon Russia as the ally of France. Herr Rimler stated that Russia exercised a strong attraction upon many parties in Hungary. The time would, perhaps, come to Consider whether Franco was not prepared in pome form or other to fortify and extend that attraction before the moment arrived when the question as to the ren.ewal of the Driebnnd had to be decided. Herr Rimler asked M. Delossse whether in his opinion it .would not be well to support the foundation of a journal at Budapest which would be to save Hungary directly and indirectly from the effects of vha Triple Alliance. He added that the action of such a newspaper might eventually 1 be greatly strengthened hy the intervention of a Franoo'Russian or of * French bank, which from an -econo* mio and material standpoint might second the efforts of the newspaper. Herr Rimler is represented to have insisted on the question of founding-a bank and to have sounded M. Delcasse as to whether he could net place him in communication with a large financial institution in Paris. M. Delcasse replied that it was not for him to do. signate any institution of the kind. -If Herr Rimler himself, however, could suggest one, he as a French Minister, bound to promote the interests of his country abroad by calling attention ;in proper French quarters to industrial, commercial or financial projects, would consider it his duty to give Herr Rimler his official support .m view of the -recommendations which he : had brought. When Herr Rimler mentioned the-name of a bank M. Delcasse promised him a line of ■ introduction. That was all that was done for -Herr Rimler by M. Delcasse; > who in .consequence cf'information received at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not see him again. Herr Rimler applied for an audience -of >the President of the Republic, which he did' not obtain. He tried to induce M. Paul Deschanel to secure him another audience of M. Delcasse, who, however, was all the more emphatic in his refusal as ho had received written notice that Herr. Binler bad been disavowed by M- Ugron.