FRANCE PREPARING FOR WAR.
. The unusual welcome accorded to the French troops in the departments selected for the autumn manoeuvres, is, says a Home paper, a sign by no means encouraging for those who desire the continuance of peace in Europe. The hospitality extended to the soldiers by the country folk on whom they were billeted (and who generally detest the infliction and groan under it), has been specially remarkable in the departments of the Somme and the - Aisne. In one case a woman of the village of Belle-court entertained one hundred soldiers, giving them a substantial'dinner on their arrival, -
and, distributing half a franc to each next morning. The people *of the localities named; appeared to have vied with each other in petting the soldiers quartered on them. In one locality the damage done to standing crops by the manoevrs, at first estimated at 8000 francs, was voluntarily brought down by the people themselves to 1300 francs, And so on. To imagine that the French people have subsided into a resigned acquiescence in the results of the late war, is to close one's eyes and ears , against the evidence •of those senses, or to' be incapable" of-reducing a probable consequence from 'a clearly proven premises. -
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 414, 15 March 1880, Page 2
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206FRANCE PREPARING FOR WAR. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 414, 15 March 1880, Page 2
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