Paris, Dec. 9.
The anxiety with which France still looks towards the eastern frontier showed itself yesterday in a speech by M. Andre Lefevre in the Chamber of Deputies. A reduction in the vote on account for the central administration of the War Office had been proposed, and M. Lefevre, in opposing this decrease in office expenses, took the opportunity to carry the debate into the larger sphere of national defence policy, his theory being that Germany's attitude makes it imprudent, not to say out of the question, for France to weaken any part of her existing military organization. According to M. Lefevre it is simply a delusion to muppone that Germany is disarm-On paper she has an army of only 100,000 men, but she is making plans that will' enable her, when the time comes, to mobilize 7,000,- 000. Everyone has heard of the Einwohnerwehr, the Selbstschiitz, the Orgesch and_ other organizations which are intended to keep the military system and spirit alive until they are again needed, as they undoubtedly will be needed some day, unless history ceases to repeat itself. An even more conspicuous defiance of the spirit of the peace treaty is provided by the regimental associations which are springing up all over Germany.
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