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Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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In Augsburg on Dec. 30, false reports from English and French papers circulate about imminent war between France and Russia, aimed at inciting Turks to delay peace with Russia and sustaining London public opinion through German echoes—a long-used English tactic.
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Reports of the probability of the speedy commencement of hostilities between France and Russia, are circulated here. Upon tracing them to their source, we find that they are derived from the English papers and French. The object of these false reports is to excite the Turks, for the purpose of retarding the conclusion of their peace with Russia, and to keep up the public opinion at London, by the effect expected from the reverberation of this German news. This practice of importing from the continent the intelligence which it is the interest of the English to circulate, is a trick they have long employed, and frequently with success.
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Augsburg
Event Date
Dec. 30
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false reports aimed to excite the turks to retard their peace with russia and maintain public opinion in london
Event Details
Reports of probable speedy hostilities between France and Russia circulate in Augsburg, derived from English and French papers. These are false, intended to provoke the Turks against concluding peace with Russia and to bolster London opinion via echoed German news. England has long used this continental importation trick successfully.