The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-01-18
NEW MAP Of EUROPE.


The Paris edition of the New
York Herald has adopted the role of
the prophet. 1t has seen visions of
a reorganization of the map of Eu-
rope, and it has coniided them to
the public. The three Empcrors, it
seems, thoroughly understand each |
other. There is no written cons |
pact, but there is, we are assured, II
distinct understanding by which
each is free to attain his own speci-
fed ends when the occasion may
arise. What these specified ends
are has somehow, it would appear,
been revealed TO the New York Her
aid.
First. To-day, says our Franco
American contemporary, the entire
mechanism of Prince Bismark's
workshop is directed against Eng
land. When the mine is laid and
all is prepared he will single out
England's vulnerable points, and
strike at them with the crushing
power of mastodon and the rapid
ity of u rattlesnake. What are
England's vulnerable points? Her
Eastern possessions, her enormous
trade with the East, her maritime
commerce all over the world.
Let any one of these be destroy
ed, and the whole structure raised
by the patient toll of centuries will
come down with n crash. The i'm
pending death of the King of Hol-
land, the last male descendant of Will
liam the Silent, and the consequcn-
ces that it involves, have been thor
oughly discussed at Berlin, st.
Petersburg, and Vienna. The even
lual annexation of the Delta of the
Rhiuc--including Holland, Luxcm-
burg, and part of BeIgium-by
Germany is already tacitly assented
to 10y Russia and by Austria. Hol-
lands colonies 60, of course, with
Holland herself. Even the bound
ary line is already clearly defined.
A line drawn nearly east from
Gravelines to the Lys, and down
that river to Mcnln, and from Me-
min to the Meusc, between Macs
tricht and Litge, marks the bound
ary of the French and Flemish Ian
guages. The people on the north of
this line speak Flemish, those on the
south speak French. This line will
some day be the boundary between
France and Germany. All the
Dutch colonies and coaling stations
also become part of this greater
Germany.
This, the Herald goes Oh to say,
is Prince BisnH,rk's final grand
conception. lie thus hopes to
achieve the oo!omat supremacy of
Germany. In consideration for their
acquicscence, Russia and Austria
are, of course, to have adequate
compensation. Russia is to have .
perfectly free hand to take, when.
ever she chooses, Constantinople,
the eastern half of the Balkan pen.
insula, and all she can grasp il
Central Asia. Persia, and India
Austria is to have the western hall
of the Balkan peninsula and Salo
nica. Prince Bismarck's secret is
now revealed. To isolate England
to unite the Russian and German
fleets against England while Russi;
j. strikes at India; to keep France il
t check by giving her slice of Bel
! GUM; to work with the Dutch colo
L nies and the newIy-acquired German
e coaling stations in the Indian Occar
T and the Pacific, as II basis to Gus
r England from her present colonia
| supremacy, and reduce her to ;
e second ilolland-such are only {
t few irons among the many tina
n Prince Bismarck has in the fire t,
: realise his conception. = N. Z
{ DaDer.