BERLIN TO FALL THIS YEAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 222, 9 June 1915, Page 3

BERLIN TO FALL THIS YEAR.

WONDENFUL PROPHECY. There have been many war prophecies, and tjhe following ,froni the pen of Dr. Clement Phillippe, president of the Societe Beige de Medecine et Pharmaeie en Ahgleterre, has attracted much attention. On Decembes 13, 1913, I was at a metical conference in Brussels. The most eminene doctors connected with , the French health resorts were in turn initiating their Belgian colleagues into the mysteries of hydrothermal science On this particular day, Amedee Tardieu, who had the honour of personally attending for two years H.R.H., the Countess if Flanders, mother of King

Albert, had been speaking at the Auver gne, and in the course of a banquet he

I uttered these words, which made his fellow guests smile: —"In 1915 we shall be in Berlin and we shall have reconquered Alsace and Lorraine." Ironical interruptions.only served to make our confrere more.serious and h e continued almost with a phophetlc air:— "I am telling you the truth, in 1915 we shall be in Berlin and we shall have reconquered Alsace-Lorraine," And he then explained himself to his surprised audience. In his sonorous voice, Tardieu, on e of the greatest French medical authorities a universally respected veteran of seventy-two, added. — "I had a friend, the director of the observatory at Mont Souris, who was a clairvoyant. Three months before the outbereak of the Avar in 1870 I saw him in tears; he was coming ou,+ of a niediumistic trane. I' am crying,' ;he said, the country and for myself, see yyou Tardieu, three months hence on the boulveards handlingg mony in your hat and counting it at the Gare du Nord, then you leave with an ambulance At Aulnoye you'r e stopped .by a railway accident,but by another miracle another train bears your to the East At Montherme an engine driver is killed and an ambulance man will say to you, 'Cjhief, I am a driver,' and will take bis place. Your train will continue on Its journey to the East, where the wound ed are weltering in their blood. And then events will hasten: the Empire will fial, we shall lose Alsace and Lorraine, and, a horrible thing, later I see Frenchmen wounded by Frenchmen But it will only be a terrible trial, and in 1915 we shall jhave taken back Alsace and Lorraine and we shall be in Berlin. And I weep also for myself, my wife and I will be dead in six months and someone will adopt my children.' "Now," Tardieu asserted with enipha sis, "all that actually happened. On August 13 I was with the Ambulance service of the Bth Army Corps. I was collecting money in my uniform cap along the boulevards, and on my arri-. val at the waiting room of are Gare du Nord I counted out 28,000 france in gold and bank notes. At Aulnoye tjhere was an accident; by. good fortune another train came along and took us away. At Montherme the driver was killed, and one of my ambulance men took his place. And then came Sedan, the fall of the Empire, the loss of our province and the fratricidal Commune.

"All happened as predicted. My friend and his wife died, and I adopted their children. And that is w[ay," Tar. dieu concluded, "I firmly believe that we shall reconquer Alsace and Lorraine and that 1915 will witness our entry into Berlin." , That was said at a friendly dinner on the 13th of December, 1913, at Brussels by a convinced and ardent patriot. And now! Who knows?