Amen!"
In the course of the latest discussion of the military law in the
Reichstag, we have been able to gather certain unforgettable
information. In the first place, Von Caprivi has told us that the
increase of the army is directed really and more especially against
France. Herr Richter declares that Germany, single-handed, can carry
through victoriously any struggle against us. Liebknecht says that
Turkey can hold Russia in check together with Poland, and finally,
that: "Germany counts upon England as surely as upon Austria and upon
Italy."
September 13, 1893. [9]
The Emperor, King of Prussia, has addressed to our brothers that are
cut off from us, the following words--
"You are Germans, and Germans you will remain; may God and our good
German sword help us to bring it to pass."
To which words, every Frenchman has replied--
"They are French and French they shall remain, God and our good French
sword helping us."
Calmly we await the final provocation. The German manoeuvres have only
served to teach us one thing more, viz. that William II wishes us to
know that the moment is at hand for a last challenge. All the German
Sovereigns who were present at the manoeuvres in Alsace-Lorraine,
appeared to be weary of the supremacy which William, the hot-headed,
asserts throughout all the territory of the Empire. Certain of their
number stated in the presence of several people whose sympathies are
with the French, that the Emperor of Germany was no more master of the
proceedings than they themselves, and that they had no intention of
figuring either as members of his suite or of his general staff, in
accordance with the wish which he had expressed to Von Caprivi.
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