| Show BERLIN BITS The German V Government After Af-ter the Alsatians PRECAUTiONARY MEASURES The FrancoGerman Situation Has Not Lost its Threatening CharacterEtc V Bits From Berlin BERLIN February 28A dispatch from Strasburg to the Post announces that government has issued an order for the dissolution of the union of Alsatian Alsa-tian choral societies it being suspected that the union assisted in the objects of the French League of Patriots It is further reported that laws dealing with societies will be rigorously enforced that a measure forbidding FRENCH MILITARY MEN to stay in Alsace except on a special permit be applied to civilians that the societies whose rules forbid the admission admis-sion of Germans to membership of the societies which as a matter of common knowledge exclude Germans be dissolved dis-solved Some law is considered necessary neces-sary to deal with the French emissaries emissar-ies press correspondents and others who it is claimed have been acting as electoral agents inciting malcontents freely visiting the fortifications and doing the work of spies The advocates of effective Germanization desire a temporary su3peusiob of electoral rights Hanover Scher Courier says Alsatians Alsa-tians must blame themselves if one of the results of the elections bethe application ap-plication to their provinces of laws of absolute dictatorship When made to understand that ANOTHER WAR WITH FRANCE will be the complete ruin of the provinces the Alsatians perhaps will be ready to vote for the German candidates jOn j-On the other hand the Jioersen Courier contends that the real conquest of the provinces will be the work of a generation genera-tion and demands patience It adds Their feeling of natriotism today shown toward France will revert to Germany when the justice of German rule effaces from tneTnmds of the people peo-ple the effects of two centuries of French domination Windihorst has written an indignant denial of the statement of RToething National Liberal candidate at Aschof fenburg that he Windthorst wished to restore the throne of Hanover with the aid of a foreign power In consequence conse-quence the new German Liberals of Magdeburg the Socialists of Berlin and elsewhere threaten to abstain from supporting the new German Liberal candidates in the supplementary elections elec-tions At a meeting of the Taxation Reform Association held at Berlin are a-re olution was passed favoring the abolition or reduction under national treaties of the duties on sugar A dispatch from St Petersburg to the Vossiche Zeitung says The taxation of naptha and naptha products in Russia has been postponed three years The Nachrichten says the situation has not yet lost its threatening character char-acter compelling Germany to provide for every contingency Among the warlike war-like preparations of France during the past week may be noted the fact that twentyfour truck load of planks and beams passed the frontier stations that immense orders have been given for steel tubes for fire arms the rolling stocks of the French northern and eastern railways has been massed in large parks |
