GERMANY'S TEMPORARY TRIUMPH.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13922, 29 March 1909, Page 5

GERMANY'S TEMPORARY TRIUMPH.

LONDON, March 27.

The Times shows that after military precautions by Austria and Germany to prevent any resistance to the Balkan agreements with the Porte, German diplomacy took the field "at St. Petersburg and wrested from M. Isvolsky the declaration mentioned. The Times adds that in the light of Germany's temporary'triumph, which cannot tend to permanent peace, the censure debate in the House of Commons will assure a new and increased significance. Tho 'British navy, concludes The Times, ln<s stood more than once between Europe,: and the claims of some great Continental Power to be sole and supreme arbiter of destinies.