THE EUROPEAN SITUATION.
• ♦ (Special to Press Association.) London, March 20. Germany, Austria, and Italy have agreed that the peculiar interests of each shall be protect dby all. Italy having agreed to assist Austria, it is considered that the effect will be to paralyse Russia and to leave France at the mercy of Germany. It is reported that Austria and Russia have each 300,000 troops massed in the vicinity of the Gallician frontier. March 21. There is a suggestion to consider the question of a general disarmament of all the European Powers ''in order to relieve the terrible strain which is felt all over Europe at present. The proposal is meeting with much favour. It was recently urged that the Pope should call a congress on the subject. Turkey has now taken the matter up, and her representatives in the various European capitals are sounding the Powers with a view to ascertaining whether the proposal would meet with their approval. The question of choosing an occupant for the throne of Bulgaria is apparently no nearer solution. Russia still favours the candidacy of the Prince of Mingrelia, but in accordance with her present policy of abstention from aotive interference she is not pressing his claims to tbe post. The Sobr^nje are prepared to re-elect Prince Alexander.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1844, 25 March 1887, Page 9
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214THE EUROPEAN SITUATION. Otago Witness, Issue 1844, 25 March 1887, Page 9
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