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Show Troops Holding Country Firmly Firm-ly and Empire Not Ready to Give Up Territory. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 21. The German Ger-man press in referring to the speech made by Premier Painleve in the French chamber of deputies, generally regard the surrender of Alsace-Lorraine as out of the question. The Vorwaerls declares that for Germany the Alsace-Lorraine question is nonexistent. non-existent. The Lokal Anzeiger says that the Gorman government will in a few days issue an official declaration on its attitude toward the Belgian question. The Boursen-Zeitung and several other newspapers assume that Chancellor Chan-cellor Michaels will refer to the peace question next Thursday in the rolcu-stag. rolcu-stag. The Munich Neuste Nachrichten in an inspired telegram declares Germany Ger-many will use Belgium as a pawn. This newspaper says: "The dominant domi-nant fact Is that we still hold Belgium firmly, notwithstanding the enemy's enormous sarcrifices in attempting to dislodge us. Wc are ready to restore Belgium under guarantees, if our enemies ene-mies are also ready to renounce their territorial and economic policy of conquest. |