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Show French Sending Troops to Frontier-Navies Are Assembled Paris, Sept. 5 La Patrie, In head-Hues head-Hues running across Us entire front page, announces a considerable movement move-ment of French troops toward tho frontier. Inquiries made at the ministry min-istry of war elicited the Information that this movement is connected with the maneuvers of the French army, which, beginning today, will last un til September 13. In addition to tho garrisons stationed In tho district, 30,-000 30,-000 troops are now moving toward the eastern boundary for concentration at Belfort, the almost Impregnable frontier fron-tier fortress which is tie objective of the army Nineteen civilian aviators have been assigned to duty in connection with tho maneuvers on the eastern frontier fron-tier This contingent, added to the military mili-tary aeronauts, will bring up the number participating in the army exercises ex-ercises to forty experienced men. The reviews held of late in European Euro-pean waters show the magnitude of naval vessels assembled by England. France and Germany, as follows - British naval review at Portsmouth one hundred seventy warships of all classes, including forty-two battleships battle-ships of which eight-are dreadnoughts, also thirty-five arm'6red crulBers and battleship cruisers ' x French naval review at Toulon eight battleships, Including six of the all-bls-gun tyre, nine-armored cruisers and twenty-five destroyers and torpedo tor-pedo boats. German naval review at Kiel nine ty-nlne fighting shlp3, not Including destroyers and torpedo boats. |