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Show ALLIANCE OF SPAIN I AID FRANCE LIKELY Contemplated Move Expected ui to Be Made to Meet Ger- 1 man Menace. j 1 FRENCH ARE ALARMED Much of Northeastern Frori- 1 1 tier. Now Held to Be Vir- Si tually Defenseless. ESI By GEORGE DUTRESNE. J Special Cable to The Tribune. jm PARTS, Sopt. 13. Tho first move on flffi tho Europoan chessboard of politics now yl that tho Balkan war 'Is over, is one ffl which will strengthen the hand of H Prance, and togother with the thrtfa jK years military aorvico will tend to off- fflffi set the Gorman army increase. "What ul I am hinting at is the alliance with M Spain which ovorybody here is expect- fflM ing to bo announced this fall. wjM liolations between the peoplo of I Franco and Spain havo novor been more jWI cordial, and tho alliance will be popular n in both countrlos as an addod guarantee IP of European peace. It is said that it WM was originally planned by the late King Wtl Edward VII, who discussed it in do'tall jjRjfj with the young Spanish king, but Vfim whether thiB bo bo or not it is certain mm that the proposed alliance has no moro ma ardent champion than King Alfonso. Bap Spain Has Fair Army. : Americans who Temember the war ovor Cuba may not think very highly of the fighting value of the Spanish j jjB army, but, though this does not begin j to comparo with either tho French or M Gorman array in efficiency, it must not j D bo forgotten that it has" been greatly m improved during the last five yonrs, H principally because of Alfonso 'b great U personal 'interest in it. Tho soldiers aro far bettor trained, the discipline is j H excollent, and the shortcomings are H moroly lack of modern artillery, which n Spain InckB ready cash to buy. But jjfi! France is more than willing to extend ijfi financial assistance to an ally who in IB caso of a war with Germany is able to ! B come to her assistance with more than m 300,000 troops. M Senator Borenger, who, if perhaps I Jw a little of an alarmist, is undoubtedly a D true French putriot, haa on our eastern S & frontiers discovered a new Gorman dan- jj ger which thrcntons France, and as a V relation of thi3 discovery has created l an extraordinary excitement in German tM military circles, followed by a numbor iV of attempts to ridicule it in German B militaristic papers, there Beems to bo i a good doal moro to the affair than ono Iffi! was at first inclined to believe. JIB Points Out Weakness. B Senator Berenger points out the many II facts which tend to prove that Germany in case of war has given up tho hazard- 1Z ous idea of invading via the Vosgos i mountains, and is now concentrating ju her forces on the frontier of Luxom- H bourg, which little principality only m needs to be crossed, a matter or a few m hours, to find a stretch on tho French fjP northeastern frontier which is practi- Wfm cally defonseloss. . Mm Henri iseronger has. incognito, trav Hi oled along the frontier and the ad- la If joining German districts and has found. J ml a formidable German permanent army Mill entrenched is a fortified camp at ujljj What la more alarming, however, is IllH the fact that he has foundthat a Tail- RflHl road, not shown on evon the latest wjlffil maps and serving no apparent com- PUsl mercial purpose, has been eecretlv Mm built. This Tftilroad, he declares, would 5 ft fl enable a German army to penetrate mm n Luxembourg and attack tho defenseless jJ M I strotch of French frontier. Senator ylu(n Boronger has conclusively proved -that Wmm Germany, within twenty-four hours 81R1 from a declaration of war, would be Mm9 able to occupy the line from Longwy WMh to Ihin-sur-Meuse with 100000 troops, mMm and ho demands that the French gen- rclCrafl er.il staff nvaat immediately propare to mma meet a Budden attack. fiis Town Officials Strike The little commune of Marcellaz-on flal Fnuclgny, in the Haute Savoie. is Klfflffi practically on strike. There is neither HK$rl mayor nor councillors. The councillors flmliS resignod in a body, and the voters re- t iilS! fused to replace them. Tho cause of P5W this municipal chaos is the resentmont SiIK sh own by the municipality and the llnPlf voterB toward the local sohoolmaster, who fills the poBt of mayoral eocretary. IHmS1 The schoolmaster sticks to hi3 office, lliiK which he intends to koop against all comers. For two monthB he has fought SfiJB tho wholo commune single handed. H? m . In the interest of tho commune a illllr! special commission was instituted by IlStPiii presidential docree. One of the first fi2$ duties of the commissioners was to pre- il3fl side over the cantonal eloctions. Thoy received the ballots of eighteon votors, I llja and for tho oloction of the municipal niffdS council there wag only a singlo name irafB on the electoral list, that of tho school maim mastor, who voted for himself, Tho Mm tanglo seems to bo inextricable. Thero Jnjii K is no giving way on elthor side. With 'Wtw a view to overcoming this stubborn- WftfiS noss on one Bide or the othor a local JjjjJ' 3J deputy proposes to Book the interven- yclriji jfr tlon of M. Barthou, tho premior. fM ft Excavations made by tho Semur So- MmSt cloty of Science at Alesia havo brought m mn to light vostigos of a vast edifice which s film goes back to tho middle age. In tho is IfmM center of the principal apartment is a SlrtOS flno sarcophagus, and around It are a mM t largo numbor of eepulchers of tho Mm Merovingian epoch. The local archac- jRJII I ologists belicvo they havo found ono VfliSiH of the first Christian tomplea in tho I W I district, probably the basilica of Santo 0 Rolne, dntine from tho sixth nnd sov- fjljB cnth centuries. a n 1 This discovery completes the series I 3S of tho successive epochs of tho exist- f enco of Alcsla. Tho finding of a H liiM smith's forgo is thought to prove that S jhjlflj in tho tenth century tho platoau of jflVs Aleaia was partially inhabited. n |
