FRANCE AND GERMANY.
f Reuter's Telegrams.) Berlin, December 4. In the Reichstag yesterday, in presenting a bill for an increase of the German army, Herr Brousart stated that although there was no immediate danger, the want of control exhibited by a large proportion of the French people prevents the people of Germany from living in peace and contentment. He declared that the increase in the army was imperative in order to be on an equality with the French army. Count yon Moltke, discussing the Army Bill, declared that an alliance with France which would ensure the maintenance of European peace was impossible while the French demanded the surrender of the provinces which Germany would never renounce. He disclaimed any idea of conquest, but 'declaretl Germany would keep those provinces wbioh she already possessed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1829, 10 December 1886, Page 9
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133FRANCE AND GERMANY. Otago Witness, Issue 1829, 10 December 1886, Page 9
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