WAR CLOUDS GATHER.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 28, 10 March 1914, Page 7

WAR CLOUDS GATHER.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY.

' 'A NEW SITUATION."

"Times" and "Sydney Services. BERLIN, March 8.

The authorities are making no attempt to stem the tide of the anti-Russian agitation being-conducted by the PresSi, . , General Bernhardi declares that Gerr. ■ •-,..■:* many must be prepared for war in the hear future, as the recent French' and Russian army measures have created a new situation. ' ■'.'.,'.

The Tsar,,in a letter to the Kaiser, denies that Russia is arming against Gerand expressed a desire to meet him soon.

Nevertheless, the anti-Kussian clamper,! continues. It is attributed in some circles to a desire to precipitate a disso--lution with a view to securing a homo-' '■' v * / > Jut geneous 'Reichstag instead of one' controlled by the Centre,, Poles, and Socialists. ■ .a ■ «■ ■•' x -• -.■

SIGNIFICANT JfltOVE. ;

PARIS, Marcti ! 9. The St. Petersburg correspondent of "Le Temps" says that the Tsar has expressed a desire that the Duma should augment to 111,00© the increase of 90,000 in the Russian Army's effective strength, promised to M. DelcassS, whiQh, with the increase already voted, will give 408,000 additional men three years hence.