Show I Russia and France PARIS March 25k sensation has been caused by the publication of a reported conversation con-versation between M Flourens French Minister of Foreign Affairs and the cores pondent of the Notre Vremyafst St Petersburg Peters-burg The story is officially declared to be incorrect but little value is attached to the denial According to the published repori M Flourens said I entered officewith the full conviction that the key to our Enropean policy was in St Petersburg While Russia is with us war with Germany is impossible Germany by the chance of her states disuniting dis-uniting would suffer more than any other power by defeat Therefore she has no course but to live on good terms with Bus sia and with us Russia came forward i for us in a moment of danger and we will not remain with folded arms should she be endangered M Flourens professed he had little fear now of the alliance between Italy Austria and Germany Ho believed the Bulgarians Bul-garians themselves or the Turkish government gov-ernment would expel the regents and Russia would have no need to interfere in Bulgaria He thought complications compli-cations were likely to arise between France and England as England would sooner or I later quit Egypt and she could dream of continental conquests I |