CABLE NEWS
WARLIKE SIGNS. GERMANY AND FRANCE,
GREAT MILITARY MANOEUVRES
United Pit ess Association. Copyright (Received Sept. G, 4.40 p.m.)
PARIS, Sept. 5. Franco rosents Germany concentrating 80,000 troops for manoeuvres at Alsace-Lorraine, and declines to send Dio customary military attaches. It is understood that tho Gorman authorities aro xvor’king out tlio problem of xvhat would have bappoued bud the battlo of Spichercn been a French victory. It is considered conceivable that Germany might liavo been obliged to act on tlio defensive in Alsace-Lorraine, and, in any ca6e, it xvas a fundamental principle of defensive tactics that troops should bo familiar with the country they ore called upon to defend. *J| Tlio French, on their sie'e, havo^gl summoned 125,000 troops OI oeuvres in the country lying Lo Mans, Novers, Orleans, arfr' # teauroux, xvorkiug out a schenHj' bears somewhat of an anology situation of the French and armies in November, 1870.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2289, 7 September 1908, Page 2
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