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BIG WAR CLOUD.

GERMANY'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FRANCE. "WE WILL HAVE TO CROSS SWORDS." (Received March 12, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, March 11. The Cologne. Gazette, in a remarkable article, says: "It will not be di(licult for the Government to prove the necessity of the- Army Bill if it will point without concealment to the quarter whence the next danger threatens —namely, France. Never Las th«* revanche idea shown itself w undifiguisedly. Franco damns to support Russia and Britain merely to reconquer Alsace-Lorraine. It is certain 'wo will have to cross swords with France." GERMANY'S ARMY BILL. 'WHAT THE MEASURE PROVIDES FOR.

(Received March 12, 10 a.m.) BERLIN, March ]l. The Lokal Anzeiger .states that tho Army Bill provides for an increase of sixty-eight thousand recruits in two years. The eighteen regiments which are now a battalion short will be brought to a three battalion standard. Six new cavalry regiment; will he formed' and the stock of horses increased by thirty thousand. Frontier companies will be strengthened. Eighte?n hundred ' and three celebration festivities have begun in Berlin. The Kaiser, in a glowing eulogi.«m. referred to the {mnv's prowess during the past century.

NEWSPAPERS DIFFER. i AN ECHO OF CHAUVINISTIC FRANCE. (Received Last Night. 10.10 o'clock.) BERLIN, March 12. The Ta.geblatt d'isagress with the Cologne Fivnnne.ir: in the danger zone. The Parisian newsnapersy it says,are not altogether blameless in the deterioration of ths Franco-German relations. The Nenesti Nichrichten declares that the ColosT'ie Gazetted article is only an echo of Chauvinistic France. THE FRENCH PRESS. ' REPLIES TO GERMANY. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB. (Received Last Nisilrt. 11.30 o'clock.) PA IMS, March 12. The newspaper Le Temps, commenting on the Cologne Gazette's article. invites the German to reconcile the conflicting declarations that the new armaments are due to the new .situation in the Balkans, and to the desire of France for revenge. The Temns adds: "Tt is the old story of the wolf and th? lamb, with the difference that- now the lamb lias no fear of being devoured. , Arrogant Gennacy is no loimer confronted bv ; ">hited France and Russia. Tliev cow perfect'v allied. The measure?. Lak a n by France are no t'v/ent Tf be a threat, it is from Germany."

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 5

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367

BIG WAR CLOUD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 5

BIG WAR CLOUD. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 5

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