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Show Why Prussia is Conkidk.nt. The Cincinnati donimrrcittl gives very good reasons why 1'ius.sia is confident of eventual success in the coming struggle strug-gle with France. After dwelling upon the wonderful unanimity existing in Germany in cac of invasion, it says : Second If France litis this time specially prepared for war, Prussia is always prepared for that contingency. For neatly lil'ty years past, her admirable admi-rable landwchr system has been tested ami improved, until it has now reached .siicli a stale of perfection that the official offi-cial Hi-gun of tin; Prussian war depait-menl depait-menl was fully justitled some time nan, in prnutlly asserting, " ill the course ef a lew d;iyi, l'nis-in can put. an official Inree ul'a million of soldiers into the field." Third The Prussian Government, besides, wa well aware of the fuel that. while the eastern and north-eastern frontier of France is insufficiently protected pro-tected from foreign invasion, the western west-ern frontier of Germany is well fortified, forti-fied, and that an invasion of the countries coun-tries on the Rhine by French armies, at the present time is a hazardous undertaking. Fourth The infantry of France is armed with chassepot rifles, and that of Prussia with needle-guns. .Both kinds of firearms are about equally destructive, and the soldiers can fire them with nearly or quite the same rapidity. Now the campaign of Sa-dowa Sa-dowa has shown very clearly that bayonet bay-onet charges upon troops armed with such terrible firearms are nearly impossible. im-possible. Both sides being armed equally well on this occasion, the French, whose chief military quality qual-ity is the lun'a Francese, of fiery elan', which makes them almost ir-resistable ir-resistable in sudden attacks, will have great difficulty in coming close enough up to the ranks of the Prussians to cross bayonets with them. It will be rather a trial of perseverance and patience pa-tience on both sides, and the unanimous unani-mous opinion of the most competent military men of Prussia is that, in such a contest, the quiet, tenacious : Germans will longer brave the feu d' enfnr of the chassepots than the fiery and intrepid, but mflre easily discouraged discour-aged French soldiers will be able to sustain the rapid and murderous volleys vol-leys of the needle-gun.. Fifth It is believed that, while the artillery on both sides is about equally good, the Prussian cavalry is considered consid-ered superior to that of the French. Previous to Sadowa, the Austrian cavalry was believed to be considerably better than that of the - Freneh, but the extreme ease with which the Prussian cuirassiers, dragoons and hus-lars hus-lars routed the Austrian norse, conclusively conclu-sively proved the extraordinary superiority supe-riority of the Prussian cavalry. |