GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XX, Issue 1427, 8 February 1888, Page 5

GERMANY AND RUSSIA.

The "Pester Lloyd" publishes a semiofficial communication, stating that the recent interview between the Czar and Prince Biam.irck was of a dramatic character. The Imperial Chancellor, who, it is -alleged, was scarcely able to retaiu his passion, informed the Czir that his Majesty had been deceived by forgeries. After hearing the explanation of the Imperial Chancellor, the Czar positively assured Prince Bismarck that he desired the maintenance of peace, and willingly repeated the assurance that he contemplated neither an attack on Germany nor participation in a coalition directed agaiust Germany. Prince Bismarck thereupon, according to the " Pester Lloyd's " account begged the Czar to remember the German alliance, and plainly declared that whoever wished to live at peace with Germany must not attack her allies, and presented the cams fcederis so clearly to the Czar's mind that his Majesty admitted that the views expressed by the Imperial Chancellor on this matter were, as a matter of f ict, no revelation, they were in no way surprising, nor did they contain anythiug that was new to him. The Czar added that he took note of the declaration thit Germany, as he had never doubted, regarded her treaty obligations seriously. The semi-official communications lay stress on the fact that Prince Bismarck succeeded in putting matters in such a light as to elicit from the Czar the declaration that he willingly supplemented his previous assurance by the statement that what he had said as regards Germany had quite equal force as applied to Austria-Hungary, it being of course understood that no provocalion be given to Russia from that quarter, a supposition which his Majesty considered as out of the question.