PRANCE.

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume 01, Issue 9, 1 June 1900, Page 83

PRANCE.

There would appear to havo been a divided feeling amongst French discontents with regard to a supposed approaching war with England. The more timorous and less jingoistic part of the population havo boon oppressed with the fear that England, after sharpening her nails on the Boers, and kindly allowing her ancient foes to finish their Exhibition festivities in peace, would swoop down and annihilate France. On the other hand, the other section of the discontents will not be satisfied unless France, with tho facility pointed out by Stead, marches a victorious army into London, and dictates what terms she pleases to the astonished and utterly demoralised Islanders. A much more probable result than either of the above will be the discomfiture of this versatile nation by internal warfare.