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Show Why Don't Tuey Fight ? The N. Y. Svn answers this question in the following : "In order to fight a great battle it is first necessary to get great armies upon the territory where the fighting is to take place. This requires time. No matter how thorough the preparations of the combatants may have been, they cannot place their forces at once at the scene of action. If. as is reported, the French intend to assemble 300,000 men between Strasbourg and Thion-ville. Thion-ville. it is hardly possible that the task will be completed before the first of August, and even that rapidity of movement will be something without precedent. The Prussians, on their sine, are no doubt using all possil le diligence, but it will tie many days before a Prussian army can be drawn up in line of battle opposite to a French army, and the dread signal fur the contest between the two be given. In lsjn preparations for the w;r between be-tween France and Austria were m:ik- j ing as early as January, but not a blow was struck till May. In 1 m'i Au-tria and Prussia began to put their armies on a war footing in March, but though they moved with unexampled celerity, the battle of Sadowa was not fought till July. Let nobody, therefore, imacinp, because be-cause we do not receive the news of creat battles immediately, there is to be no war. The war is certain and inevitable. |