The Neue Freie Presse puts the dots upon the i's.
It declares that " Austria-Hungary cannot permit the aggran- disement of a hostile Servia," and that "Austria-Hungary will need to have a word on that subject with Russia when the time comes to decide upon the maintenance, not only of Balkan, but of European peace." The Times correspondent in Vienna further tells us in Friday's telegram that " In authoritative Austrian circles the view is to-day expressed that the failure of the European attempt to prevent war is attributable in large measure to the halting attitude of the British Govern- ment, an attitude which made it apparent that there would be no adequate European guarantee of the requisite reforms in European Turkey." This accusation is altogether unfounded, but, most unfortunately, there seems ground to believe that an attempt will be made to represent us as the marplots of the piece.
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