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Show Military Conscription In Gorinanr Military conscription Is being enforced en-forced In Germany with more than usual stringency, and the socialist leaders nro denouncing tho system. A Cologne correspondent of tho Loudon Lou-don News says it Is a pitiful spoctaclo to seo tho squads of German conscripts nt the various stations awaiting enforced transportation from home and friends. They look more like convicts ou the way to jail than recruits for the army of tho empire nnd as thoy nro surrounded sur-rounded by throngs ot wooping and walling relatives tho cruelty of tho system forces itself on tho mind ot tho observer. Just now those conscripts am being driven to (he military depots In droves from all parts of Gnrmany, aud 'sadness reigns in every village and hamlet. |