The War Cloud | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 15, 1875

The War Cloud.

A REVIVAL OF THE NAPOLEONIC ERA OF GENERAL WAR.

New York, April 10: The Herald this morning discusses at length editorially the war cloud in Europe, and considers that a renewal of the war between Germany and France would draw in other nations. The cause of this state of uproar and unrest is that the late Franco-Prussian war was an unjust war and ended in unjust peace. Germany’s attitude toward Belgium is threatening, and the Herald argues that Germany, fearing to offend civilization by a direct war upon France, will precipitate a conflict with Belgium, and an attack on Belgium is an attack upon France, and this will probably bring to one side or the other as allies England, Russia, and Italy. The next war in Europe will be a war of allies, and the Herald predicts that Germany’s victory will not be an easy one.

In relation to this prospect of a European war, the Detroit Evening News says editorially:—

“Things look decidedly squally in Europe. Germany was never in better condition for a tussle than to-day, and cannot improve her condition by waiting. It is thought therefore that as another trial of strength is inevitable, she will, if possible, force matters to an early issue, and this is the interpretation put upon the quarrel with Belgium. A war with Belgium means a war with France, and perhaps Austria and Italy.