| Show VON BOOK choice selections from the late count von moltke Molt kes review of the german war appear now and then la ili the press of the country the lan 4 guage in which these theae extracts a 0 couched to is devoid of redundancy OW cum locution or apparent labor eoa sentence being simply worded 4 as an arrow and destitute of hobsek ties or ambiguities abile the advia dv matio manner in which many of fail att more stirring situations to is told notably the charge and recharge of the french at sedan and the he color and vividness I 1 imparted m parted to all his word paintings go to show that the he counts count a literary qualifications 0 were abreast of his military skill hl aft place being well to the fore in elthora the recollection of that brief but bloody and crushing contest will go oj through and down the generations generation 1 of I france while memory remains we warde the brain not because it w a defeat altogether not because it ft was inflicted by the hereditary enen enemy q who formerly went down all ail but te ju gloriously before the triumph triumphant agg eagles but because through treachery incompetency and lack j til preparation the germans were alvik an almost unobstructed turnpike ova novt french bodies to paris and then ap acted from the prostrate foe indemnity so vast as 89 far reaching and ro co apparently impossible impost ble to ral that it looked like as it was doubt intended to be an enfeebling blow whose effect would not be worn aw during the generation at lesal least toll this treatment added to the forcible takie i away of alsace and lorraine ala not as suggested be forgotten or forgiven if moltke acted in the terms for the conclusion of peace and participated iti in the belief that they would be permanently crashing he showed in this a i jacket judgment and an ignorance of 11 rench characteristics greatly at variance with his knowledge of that people otherwise as shown by his bis boon book before the seams and gaps sloughed ploughed hed ed through the streets of paris by german cannon balls were all closed up before the waits and columns shattered by swi steell and abd grape and the howling mob which followed their deadly advent were entirely made whole or replaced aa a mightier army than france had ever known before better equipped and more thoroughly trained than any of at its predecessors was under arms arme and ready to march to the hungered for music of revenge at a moments cament s notice the indemnity had teen been paid and a notice lacking only ah abe essential of form served on germany that her hold bold upon and posses won ton of alsace and lorraine were purely technical that the soil might be held by means of military guards mud nd outposts but the hearts of the people and the people themselves belonged to prance france in ilk short every vertigo of the devastation excepting a vacant place or two in a imme home here and there had bad been either wiped out or concealed wherever such a thing was physically possible nothing left to remind the eye at least that frenchmen had been beaten and humiliated on their own soil while on the contrary perfect readiness and willingness for another attempt to cross ardes the rhiney rhine plunge through the black forest and on to the german capital were everywhere visible the dislike all along prevailing be litween woon the nationalities which the sol not dier author fairly describes has ripened tato into a hatred so deep and intense at least on the part of the french that att it ta is manifested on all permissible occasions and in ways striking pathetic foolish aul and at times humorous for instance henri Boo befort editor and manager of la lanterne lanterns Lan terne keeps a standing notice note at the head bead of his advertising ver columns reading no advertisements verti accepted from germans german a under tinder any circumstances this I 1 il the situation or a phase of it vety well much better then than it la Is done to a general way by von moltke |
