Alsace and Lorraine

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume VIII, Issue 2345, 7 September 1908, Page 2

Alsace and Lorraine

■ ....'■ . ,:,|r-«—;,''■.;■:'.: German Military Manoeuvres , French Reajehtnient Press, Association.—Copyright. : September 6, i!3o'p.m.) ,' •PAiiiS )/ September's;:

France resents, Germany eoncen'tratjug 80,000 men for military. biaribeiivres in Alsace and Lorraine, and declines to send the customary military mission.,

It is understood that the German authorities are working out" the problem of what would have happened had the battle of Spjeheren been a French victory. It is considered'as conceivable that Germany might be obliged to act on die defensive in Alsace and Lorraine in tlie event;of war, and that it is a fundamental principle in defensive tac-: tics that troops should'be familiar with the country they are called on to defend.

. The French, on their side, summoned 125,000 liicn to ■manoeuvre in the region round the Boise lying* 'between Leipno River, Orleans, and Chateaurox, working out a scheme sbiii)vehat amalagotis to the situation of the French and German armies iu November,Jß97'..

Alsace ami 'Lorraine, formerly too French provinces; wore ceded to Germany as one of the conditions of peace in the Franco-German War of 1870-71.