The Evaluation Of France

It is probíiiuy quito as innoying to tho Gorman amiy of occupation in Franca :is il c:in lu 1.1 tlin Frenah people tofind t.htíir orders for "borne" ilu-uptly countermanded, and thcmsclve oondemnöd to a Ujii;ri'l' cHiiuiaii'C of (ixilc i: tliü midst of :i sullon and hostile population. The Cronmin txoops are not military monks cut off from lionic añil tl;r lit'ci t' the heartfa likn thai Teutonio broth irbood of ködghtt by wliicli Pruí3Ía was originnily conquored frotn tlic miilins oL heathondom. On the eontrary; tliej are part and proe] of the Genean people. 'I'hcy have tbcir wivi's and ohildren, their houses and tli cir tinfVii', théii tanda and thoir industrias, to look after in the Fatherlfttld. Every day's delay in thmf retunt is a. soi'o trial, we ír.ay he jure, to Booresf manly hearts ntuonjr thoni, und to hutldreds oí gxnl Germán folk who are anxiously awaiting' their restcrntkm those who lovo them nnd 1 ïi tí fot iiu.ir coming. It is but fair, therefore, to presume tbat fot tha delay whiob the oable tells lts in dow tokiüiï plivco in Üio wit!u1r:vu-al of the Gorïnun foroeu tlio Frenoh authoritieg at Paris and Vrrsnille.s may be :is ïnuch to blame as tho invaden UtemaalVes. All the light whioh Ims been thrown of late apon the state of tbingi in France tendg to prove tliMt th( temper of the Prenoh poople and of the Ftenioh 1-kV r-, 'hich was more thorouglily hoatile fco the CK c mans at tlie eud uf tlio ooüöiüt thun :st tho tiwinning of it, has beoome almcsi aggtoseavo. Tho oonviotion h;is KTowing in Franco tbat the defoat of the Prenob arma waa the rosult of imperia] nscnlity, and this Oon.Tioti.on haa proniptly led lo the ootion tli;1' Pepubllcan Francd would revene the verdict. For thu sake of Franofl :is woll as of Europo, il is tu be hoped that the Thiera goernuent may bc strong onough to prevent this notion from takins: ihape nnd pression iu violonce.