GERMANY AND FRANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 60, 13 March 1913, Page 6

GERMANY AND FRANCE.

FRENCH PRESS OPINION,

(By Electric Telcgrapn.—Copyright, (United Press Association.)

(Received 9.20 a.m.) , ‘ Paris, March 12. Several newspapers are disappointed and surprised at Mr Asquith’s declaration. j Rappel says: We are glad the question is settled. Anything is preferable to uncertainty.” LeClair says: “It is not bad that Franco should be told she must count solely on herself.” Other papers consider that England will treat each separate case on its merits, which distinguishes the Entente from the Alliance.

The Tagoblatt disagrees with the Cologne Gazette’s allegation that Franco is a danger zone. The Parisian newspapers, it says, are not altogether blameless for the deterioration of Franco-German relations. The Neuste Nachrichten declares that tho Cologne Gazette’s article is only an echo of Chauvonistic France. The Cologne Gazette says that Mr Asquith’s speech has created an agreeable impression. Germany is gratified with the declaration that she will not bo obliged to send troops to the Continent.

Paris, March 12. Le Temps, commenting on the Col ognc Gazette’s article, invites the Gprraan press to reconcile the con flicting declarations that the nevi armaments are duo to the now situation in’ the Balkans and t* a desire of France for revenge. Le Temps adds that it is the old story of the wolf aqd tho lamb, with the difference that now the lamb is in no fear of being devoured. Arrogant Germany is no longer confronted by iso lated France and isolated Russia. They are now perfectly allied. The measures taken in Franco are nr threat. If there be a threat it ifrom Germany,