From the Frepch point of view, the comments of the English newspapers on the warm reception given by the Empe Willam to. General Bonwal are decidedly jous veadi Tt seems to ho imagined England that reconciliation between France and narly is in the wir and that [the Emperor will sooner er later bring it bout. As a matter 4, there is ne nestion of a reconciliation, which could take place only between persons or countries on bad terms with one snather, whereas the relations between France and Germany are as friendly as they can be. The root of the matter lies deeper. Frenchmen are perfectly aware that the Emperor William could not, even if he would, make them a present of Alsace and Lorraine. At the same time, France still considers that she was forcibly and wrote {fully despoiled of the two provinces, and she cannot accept the situation without losing all dignity and descending to the Howest rauk amongst nations. This state lof things does not in the least prevent France and Germany from being good neighbours. Last year, it will be remembered, the Emperor William went on board French training ship and inspected the jeadets. Now he has proposed the health of the French army and ridden side by side with a French General. France took part in the opening of the North Sea Canal, she has welcomed Germany to the Paris Exhibition, ber soldiers have fought under German Generals in China, and her banks have covered a German loan. The former antagonists: as polite as possible to each other, but the stumbling-bleck, however carefully they may ignore it, is still in their path, and there ix no way of re-
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