"THE NEXT DANGER."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1697, 13 March 1913, Page 5

"THE NEXT DANGER."

... ——♦ ' ' ; , GERMAN FEARS. WAR WITH FRANCE COMING. "Sy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Berlirii March 11., The "Cologne Gazette," in. a remarkable article, says: "It will not to difE-? : cult for the Government to prove the . necessity of tho'Army Bill if it will point without concealment to tho quarter whence tho next danger threatens— •namely, Prance. Never ( has the revanche idea shown, itself so undisguisedly. franco ..claims to support Russia. and Britain' merely to reconquer Alsace-Lorraine. It ' is certain we will haye to cross swords with France." -."■■■ ■ The' "Lokal' Anzeiger" 6tates that the Army Bill provides for an increase of sixty-eight thousand recruits in - two . yeajrs. Tho eighteen regiments which or.; now a battalion short will be brought to a three-battalion standard. Six new cavalry regiments will be formed and the stock of horses increased by thirty thousand. Frontier companies will ,be strengthened. ... The festivities in celebration of the German War of Liberation in 1813 have begun in Berlin. The Kaiser, in a glowj . ing eulogy,; referred to the army's prowess during the past century.

CONFLICTING DECLARATIONS, • , (Rec. March 12, 11.20 p.m.) ' , ■ Paris, March .12. ■ The "Temps;" in commenting on the "Cologne Gazette's" article, invites the German press to reconcile the conflicting declarations that the new German armaments are due to the new situation in the Balkans and to the desire of France for Tevenge. \ The "Tqmps" adds: "It is the old story of the wolf and the lamb, with the difference that now the lamb is in no feiar of being^devoured. \An arrogant Germany (is no longer confronted by an isoV lated Fraaoe;and an isolated Russia: they are' now perfectly allied. The measures taken] by France are no threat, and if there is a'threat it has been made by ■Germany."' FRANCE NOT THE DANGER ZONE. (Red. March 12,.9.5 p.m.) 'v ; Berlin, March 12. . The "Tageblatt" disagrees with the "C'ologno Gazette's" allegation that France is the danger zone. Tie Parisian newspapers, it adds, have not; been altogether blameless for the deterioration, of FrancoGerman Telatioifs. • v v The "Neueste Nachrichten" declares that'the "Cologne Gazette's" article, is only an echo from Chauvinistic France.