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Show BRITISH HUB STOPPED FEARED. Reason Given by Government Govern-ment for Halt Pointed Out as. Lame. - ' i Special Cable to Tho Tribune. LONDON", Oct. 12. When the great Kngllsh army maneuvers were suddenly and unexpected- ended some weeks Wgo the ofllcJal reason given was that the clVecUvo scouting- service .done by the airmen air-men of both armies find made further operations op-erations impossible, but this explanation aallslii.'d only thu mere unthinking layman, lay-man, and, considering the many mishaps or the British army lllcrs, was Indeed a vry lame one. The German press, which follows everv event in England with the utmost attention. atten-tion. Immediately begnn trying to llnd the real caue. and. If it did not succeed In Ibis, it proved at least that the one given In the Kngllsh press was absurd. The only foreigner who discovered why the maneuvers ended so abruptly was a member of the French anny's general Man" and he confided It to no one except a friend connected with a sensational London paper, who had sense enough to keep silent, beyond Intimating that It was not the war department but the foreign department that so suddenly stopped the merry mimic war. Of all the Journalists present with the opposing armies, Colonel KIppIngton, military correspondent of the Times, alone knew tho full facts In his capacity as editor of the official monthly -organ of the war department, a position which prevenl"d him from communicating it to I the Times, which. If he hud said anything, any-thing, would have been nblo to score a 'most remarkable beat. It Is hinted at now, in well Informed circles, that tho reason which stopped the maneuvers was similar to the one which stopped thoso of Germany quite suddenly on Jseptcmbor 0 last year, und that tho outbreak of war was momentarily considered Inevitable. |