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Show oo FRANCO-GERMAN WAR SEEMS NEAR AT HAND London. March 9 In tho present critical situation in European politics France, England and Russia are all watching each other to see which takes th" first step. V British diplomat, now at home on furlough, discussing the electric cur-rent cur-rent imparted to the situation by the accession of Polncare to the Freuch presidency, said: "It Is admitted by all who are acquainted ac-quainted with the currents of diplomacy diplo-macy in Europe that the coming of Poincare has put more electricity into the Franco-German situation than there has been In many ears The appointment of Delcasse, who has an avowed partisan policy, as embassador embassa-dor to St. Petersburg. constituted nothing less than a direct challenge t QOrmany, the answer to which has not yet been given, and which, when it cornea, maj stagger the world with Its suddenuess. That Germany, which insisted on the dismissal of Delcasse In lOOfi as a result of the Moroccan Imbroglio, giving giv-ing the French thr alternative of war. should now eat humble pio In the fi -of this oi-n defiance from the now-head now-head of the republic, is at the present moment." said the diplomat "a matter mat-ter of undisguised amazement to all the chancelleries of the world. "Indeed.' the diplomat said, "never "nev-er within the past ten years, not even during the I r fun-Moroccan crisis, has a Franco-German war been near er." |