FRANCE AND GERMANY.
PROLONGATION OF SERVICE. (Received Last Night 10.30 o'clock.) PARIS, May 5. M. Barthou, speaking at Caen, said it was not a question of yielding to a contagious madness for armaments, but three years' service was a permanent necessity. There was a difference of 180,000 men between France and Germany, and the only way of adjusting it was by prolongation of service.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 May 1913, Page 5
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64FRANCE AND GERMANY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 May 1913, Page 5
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