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Show co ha3 almost exactly the area of France, and France with all her manifold resources, is much crowded with her 40,000,C00 people. There is some sinister purpose in the mind of the Kaiser'of Germany. Ger-many. He either wants a war with France or he wants to obtain 'from "her concessions which will leave him undisturbed to pursue some purpose of his own in another direction. The conference,' from the present outlook is liable to be a failure. ' V WHAT IS THE GERMAN STUNT? H The attitude of Germany in the Algeziras busi-ress busi-ress is doubtless, causing uneasiness all over Europe. Eu-rope. The item from France ( stating that the German Ger-man army is all ready to invade France and urging the authorities not to depend upon fortifications but to be ready to invade Germany in case of war, is a reminder of 1870. ; .:r r.; ; -. When Prussia declared was against, France and the cry iri Paris was "On to Berlin,", it was told Von Moltke that France in thirty days would be in readiness read-iness to fnvade Prussia. He closed his thin lips and said, "France must" invade Prussia before, thirty days, or she never will." And she did. not. , . It is hard to.understand German purposes in this Algeziras business.;" The statement that Morocco is a very rich country, capable of immense production produc-tion and able to' support 50,000,000 people, -has no foundation in; any description ever given of the country. ; It is a land of rocky hills and sand inter-spersed inter-spersed with rich but very narrow valleys. Moroc- |