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Show PRUSSIA WASTS LUXEMBOURG. The reasons giren for the occupation of Luxembourg by Prussia are scarcely plausible pretexts. All Kurope knows that both Prussia aud Prance have coveted Luxembourg, and know.s, too, how nearly it was a cause of war between be-tween the two powers, when Prussia did not feel herself as able to meet France with hopes of success as she did last July. With all the talk that there has been as to thecauses of the present war, it was and is really a war of conquest, con-quest, encouraged by jealousy and waged with a view to territorial aggrandizement. ag-grandizement. Had Napoleon won, he would have extended the French frontier fron-tier beyond the Rhine and have absorbed ab-sorbed Luxembourg. Rut Germany is so far the victor, and it occupies Luxembourg Lux-embourg as a prelude to annexation. Belgium will come next, when fair opportunity offers, or when a pretext can be raised ; probably after England gets weakened in a war with Russia or the United States. |
