The Austrian Chancellor, Count Kalnoky, on Monday addressed the Delegations
in a long speech, of which part was important. He repeated his master's declaration that the Powers wished peace, though for the safety of the Monarchy the national armaments must still be increased. The Triple Alliance must continue, and indeed it had been informally joined by Roumania. The Austrian Government did not intend to interfere in the Balkans, had made no military convention with Servia, and would not interfere with Bulgaria if other Powers did not. The Chancellor, however, admitted subsequently that Austria had witnessed with pain the dismissal, and the subsequent treatment, of M. Stambouloff. He spoke with kindness of England as a Power which, though outside the Triple Alliance, " we are acoustomed by old sympathies and constant identity of interest, to find at our side," and attributed much of the dread of war which existed, to the sensational and often mischievous manner in which the nerves of the newspaper- reading public are "played upon." The newspapers are very angry at this ; but there can be little doubt that the tempta- tion to make every incident look exciting is very strong, and is often yielded to. There would be war every year but that peace and war still remain within the control of statesmen.
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