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Show By Telegraph. FH.AXCK AND GEIIMA.VY WAR THREATENED. London, IS. The Daily Telegraph editorially this forenoon, asserts in decided de-cided terms that its statements a few days since relating to tho precarious condition of the relations between France and Germany wore founded upon up-on undeniable f'acts.and says, We deem it our duty to declare the certain and solmen fact thatuponipresident Thiers' decision this week hangs the fate of France. Wo are not speaking rhetorically, rheto-rically, but we measure anxiously these most grave and momentous words. On Monday the count von Arnim, the German embassador to France, carried his ultimatum to Thiers, and the purport of this ultimatum is that Germany sees in the French army bill and in the speeches of Thiers menaces of vengeance, and a programme for the eventual repudiation by Fiance of her indebtedness to Germany. Bismarck therefore demands that the armaments ol' France be reduced and the war estimates esti-mates diminished, or the alternative will be the reoecupation by German troops of the evacuated French terri tory and war if necessary. |
