RE-ARRANGING THE FRONTIERS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11976, 13 May 1914, Page 4

RE-ARRANGING THE FRONTIERS.

A number of Continental newspapers are very busy just now attempting to forecast the ultimate arrangements of the map of Europe. Though the surmises on the subject vary considerably, yet they all seem to have arrived at tho conclusion that the day is not far distant when the Austro-Huugarian Empire will be dissolved. It appears to be accepted everywhere on the Continent that the existing frontiers of Europe cannot be maintained, and that natural conditions must take the place of artificial frontiers left by the upheaval of the Napoleonic regime. The opinion is held by many European statesmen that this re-adjustment will come through the break up of the Aus-tro-Hungarian Empire, and that this will be an accomplished fact within a short period of the death of the aged Emperor. Hungary and Bohemia have long been clamouring for independence. As far as Hungary is concerned the last great effort made to throw off the yoke of Austria was in LS4B, when Louis Kossuth headed a great rebellion which had far-reaching effects, and was only crushed by the intervention of Eussia, who threw 200,000 men against the rebels —an action on tho part of the then Czar which caused great indignation in England at tho time. If Hungary rises again it will be Germany who will have to be reckoned with this time, and not Russia, and Germany's action will be governed entirely by the territorial concessions she is likely to obtain from the other Powers in the distribution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.