WAR CLOUDS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1701, 18 March 1913, Page 5

WAR CLOUDS.

9 FRANCE AND GERMANY. ITALY ASKED TO 'TAKE THE,FIELD. i A CURE FOR UNEASINESS. j By releEraph—Pre«B Association—Cor®right. Paris, February 10. It is definitely stated that the French army preparations are due to the Italian Parliament revealing that tho German Secretary for War asked Italy whether sho would 1)0 ready to take tho field in October to end tho European uneasiness." A great' and orderly Syndicalist-Socialist demonstration was held outside I'ajris against tho three years' service. On returning by the northern suburbs, tho parties rioted, through tho police oljjecting to tlie red flag. Several were injured, and eleven ari'ests ivero made. > The Budget Committee has reduced the army credit by 8,000,000 francs (about ,£320,000),' which it is estimated will bo saved in the new method of manufacturing howitzers. / Writing in tho London. "Evening News" Herr Bernstein, a member of the German Parliament, says: "Not even the jinost fiery pan-German desires another foot of French soil, but nobody can tell what may happen if Franco continues to choose to make herself the willing sej>. rant of others, and continues to do their dirty work." Her Bernstein's statement has provoked considerable discussion. In the opinion of most people who have read it, the quotation given amounts in plain English to this: France is to be given tho choice of keeping quiet, or of being destroyed, while Germany gains control of the sea.