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Show ou TRIPLE ALLIANCE NOT RUPTURED Tho Italian prime minister, Signor Giolotti. thought It worth his while to dispatch a telegram to the editor of tho Budapest Naplo and to denounce as a "vulgar invention" the news reported re-ported In some Vienna papers that Italy was about to socede from the triple alliance At the same time' tho Temps in Paris treated us to tho uewa that between the sovereigns of Germany, Ger-many, Austria-Hungary and Italy private pri-vate letters relating to the renewal of tho triple alliance have already been exchanged Evidently tho community of Interest Inter-est on which the alliance was based thirty years ago is not yet a thing of the past The steadfastness of tho policy that givo3 to the triple alliance its long duration is, according to the often repeated assurance of Its founder, found-er, Prince Bismarck, closely bound up with Its limited scope and Its purelv defensive character. It Is not even presumed that, in case of one of the three powers extending its sphere of operations beyond the center of Europe, Eu-rope, the two others will offer their military support for securing this aim. That became notorious when Germany thought It necessary to stand up as tho champion of the open-door principle prin-ciple in Morocco after the publication of the Franco-British treaty of April, 1904; it will be romembered that at the Algeciras conference Italy wont its own wav in open adversity to Germany, Ger-many, without thoroby endangering the continuation of the triple alliance. When in the course of the Franco-German Franco-German negotiations about Morocco a rupture seemed Imminent, tho napers in the dual monarchy lort no time to declare that for such a distant object Germany could not oxcect tho actlvo' participation of her ally in a possible Franco-German war Nor did Italy give notice to the two other allies, j when Bhe Inaugurated her Trlpolitan 'expedition. Indeed the belligerents took the strict neutrality of Germany so much for a foregone conclusion that both sides chose the, German dip- ' lomatlc nnd consular representatives for 'rjlacing the Interests of their1 re-snectlvo re-snectlvo nationals undor effective charge. It is In overv resnoct takon for granted thnt the triple alliance has for Its Bole aim tbo preservation of tho status quo in Europe. Continental Correspondence ? nn . |