GERMANY.
General Yon Moltke has been placed in thereliev'ed list of the army. -iGeneral Yon VValderseß succeeds ; him. The-retired General ; is as old as the century, having been born at Guenitz, in . Mechienburg, :october;26th, 1800.1 . ..-,•'. Emperor William attended the unveiling of a monument to Paince Erederick Charles, , aVtfrarikport, on Atigust 16fch. At breaks fast, he gave a toast: to " German purity, and said that 46,000,000 Germans would die "rather than deliver a single stone of Aleace-Lorrftine to the 'PreHch. Ho also said, 'V One thing I rtiust add, gentlemen. W,e all know each other too well to entertain such thoughts, yefc I must defend my departed lather against the shameful suspicion that he; coald have relinquished part of the gains .of the great war."; 'This =: speech caused a depression on the European bourses. The German, newspapers of all shades of opinion- expressed approval, while _the journals ■ preflerved a dignified silence, which is regajded as, significant of the intensity of feeling created by the imperial.speaker's words, ::-r :
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 219, 17 September 1888, Page 5
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