Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1901 — The Outlook for France. [ARTICLE]

The Outlook for France.

The speecn made last week in the French Chamber of Deputies by M. Delcasse, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, can hardly fail to attract attention all over Europe. He declared that the relations of France and Russia had never been more cordial, and*he intimated that the recent reception of Italian warships at Toulon might have important political consequences. The fact that M. Delcasse’s visit to St. Petersburg hqs been followed by ar-' rangements for placing the new Russian loan in Paris shows that the Russian government can continue to count upon the financial resources of the French people. Just what is the quid pro quo to be given for renewed pecuniary aid M. Delcasse forebore to say, although he was interpellated on the subject. It is certain that, ostensibly, Russia alone has been a gainer thus far from the alliance with France; but it is -probably more than a coincidence that, simultaneously with the issue of the new Russian loan, the Berlin government has ordered that the German forces stationed on the Russian frontier, shall be signally increased. So formidable is the Russian army now quartered in Poland that an aggressive movement on its part would compel Germany to array against it a large part of her military resources. When the triple alliance ends its career in 1903 the great German Empire will be menaced on all sides.