THE WAR OF 1870.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 4

THE WAR OF 1870.

It is interesting to compare the manner of Germany's present declaration of war with the Franco-Prussian rup-

ture .of 1870. Of the latter there are Uovx?raJ versions, but the best and most reliable is to be found in Bismarck's official commentary on the Emperor Frederick's Diary, .which was published ii September 1838—a few weeks after 'his death. .Bismarck affected to take the view that the Diary was spiifrOuV: and ■ referring to the outbreak of wai. ,wrote:—"Nor is it right that his Majesty the Kiay; had not much objection ,to our mobilisation. His Majesty continued to believe that he would still preserve peace and spare the nation the calamity of war. His Majesty was in Branddenburg, and during the whole iof the railway journey from there to Berlin withstood my advocacy of mobjilisatibn. But after, hearing M. Olli vier's speed), which was read to hiro at the Berlin station, and comma tiding it to be read to him a second time he considered it as tantamount to r French declaration of war, when the King himself without more ado, and proprio motu, decided to mobilise."