"LA REVANCHE!"

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 14, 19 February 1915, Page 4 (Supplement)

"LA REVANCHE!"

REALISATION IN SIGHT. Mr. Alfred Capus, a member the Academie Francaise, discusses the "Figaro" (Paris) the prospect, dear to the heart of every Frenchml of Alsace and Lorraine being resto to the sovereignty or France. "We have the right to proclali he says, "with no other data tl the present situation affords—d which the implacable fury of the emy will be unable to upset—t Alsace-Lorraine will soon becc French soil once again, and that Revanche" is certain. Moreover, superb declaration of General Jo has dispelled the least, the most scure doubt on the point. This i phase of the war has been opened the allocation of General Joffre the Alsatians, by the advance in sace, by the German terror wl growls between the Voeges and Rhine.

"Let us recall again the discoi of William 11. in 1888, on the mor of his accession: "Before we yield strip of earth of our conquests it be necessary to destroy 50 army o and 40,000,000 of people.' The peror was then 30 years .Md; hj( augurated the series of hiaHhaat acts of bravado. To whichever <] ter of the globe he turned he c only perceive presages of glory, triumph, of food for his pride, day'tragic contrast!—master of Germany almost double that w Bismarck forged for him, das from one frontier of his empii the other, fatigued, aged, br less!"