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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVI, Issue 15, 3 August 1888, Page 7

Mdme. Sarah Bernhardt's affidavit in the " La Tosca » case will not be pleasant reading for th* <• great unacted." Eight hundred is the number of unread plava which Mdme. Bernbardt thinks she has in her posspssion ; but of course she cannot be certain to a score or so The rumor which obtained general circula'ion in Berlin that an imperial decree was about to be issued, the effect of which would almost wholly prohibit Frenchmen from waiting Alsace-Lorraiae is probably much exaggerated . Nevertheless there is a great daal of indignation in the German epical at the obstacles thrown in the way of and restrictions imposed upon German tourists upon the French frontier, and it is quite probable that some measure of reprisal will be resorted to The North German Gazette, which is nothing if n ot official in its utterances, pointe to the facts that France nas twice the number cf officials on the frontier that Germany has and adds that most of them are Alsatians. The incidents which occurred on the obiecTofXVrt h 8 o year ' the f^^oontinoM, clearly shows £ object of the French Government in maintaining the large force of frontier guards that it does, makes it the more necefs.ry that Germany should adopt some method of retaliation,