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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 20, 5 September 1884, Page 20

The beginning of the end of German military slavery has appeared in the spreading disgust of the peop'e at the exhaustive calls for training. No wonder that alarm has saized on the Government when ib learns that 11,702 men we> c sentenced during the past year for attempting to emigrate for tbe purpose of avoiding required military service. Cases against 14,178 more offenders in this particular line are still pending. But, worse still, the number of other men from whom a re-service is due, and who, during the year past, refused both to report for duty and to furnish the required excuses for the failure to enroll themselves, amounted to the extraordinary 'number of 103,251. The publication of these facts in an official form has startled the general public, and produced the greatest anxiety in the German War Office. It is said that the emperor is greatly enraged over this decline in the| military organisation ; but there is a rage more terrible than kings' or kaisers'— and Germany is in a fair way o give the world an illustration.— Pilot. A. most novel event was the appearance, last week, in London, at a fashionable concert of Mile. Sarah Bernhardt as an English elocutionist. She announced some days ago that, to testify her appreciation of Irish poetry, Bhe would appear at this concert and recite " The Last Hose of Summer," in English. She fulfilled her promise, and surprised even her friends by her exquisite reading of the poem. She displayed unexpected power and pathos, and was compelled to respond to four recalls by the delighted audience. Paris, July 1 1 .—Dr. Kosh, the greatcholera physician, in an interview with the Oaulois correspondent, said : " I think I may say that, considering the precautions taken by tbe naval authorities, cholera was imported on some merchant ship, probably English. Th°y do not scruple on English vessels to hide deaths which occur on voyages or to falsify logs." The Morning Post says it is stated that in view of the recent verdict in Dublin the Crown will not press for payment of the penalty, of £500 incurred by Mr. O'BrieD, M.P, for contempt of court.