Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1891 — DOES NOT LOOK LIKE PEACE. [ARTICLE]

DOES NOT LOOK LIKE PEACE.

At a conference of the Austrian Cibinet Emperor Francis Joseph presiding, it was decided to increase the military budget 6,000,000 florins and to strengthen the peace effective force of the Austrian empire. Count Von Taafe, President of the Council of Ministers, was absent, owing to an attack of influenza. The Dutch Minister of War, Colonel Borgansius, proposes a period of enforced military service similar to that in use in other continental countries. The period proposed will extend over ten years and will consist es six years’ active service with the colors and four years’ service in the army reserves. The Dix NeuvieueSiecle of Paris publishes a dispatch from a correspondent in Baden, giving the substance of a speech which it is claimed was made by the Grand Duke of Baden at the close of the recent maneuvers of the southwest army. According to this dispatch the Grand Duke said: “The time is near when Germany must again unsheath her sword in cefense of her independence against an enemy who has not learned prudence by bloody defeat. It will be the duty of the valiant corps of Baden to support the first onset to fire the first shot and to carry the palm of victory.’*