SEDAN DAY CELEBRATIONS.
AVARLIKE SPIRIT EXCITED. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) BERLIN, Septemb.-.- 2. The "Sedan Day" celebrations are exciting a warlike spirit in Germany, and are stimulating hostility towards England. Every patriot is wearing a Wilheim I. cornflower in a crape badge. (It was at Sedan, on September 2nd, 1870, that Napoleon 111., and an army of 86,000 men, with all tlieir accoutrements and baggage, surrendered to the Germans in the Franco-German War. The fortress was dismantled after 1875.)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10411, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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80SEDAN DAY CELEBRATIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10411, 4 September 1911, Page 5
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