A writer in a recent issue of the "Outlook," who claims to have been the only correspondent with General von Kluck's army on its march to Paris, says, ''that the French would ever be able to save Paris did not seem to occur to either officers or men in von Kluck's division. Even when the retreat to the Aisne began they were not particularly upset" How far this confidence has been sipated scerne pretty clear from the discussion that has been prooeeding recently in German papers about the public's right to make its voice hoard with regard to the conditions of peace. The Free Conservative leader in Prussia, Baron von Zedlitz, puts the matter thus: a right to be before the' negotia-'The German people is of age, and has tions and have ite opinion Qian tt it''s prevented from "raising properly respected at the negotia-ite voice at the time it will become Hike am over-heated kettle without ven-filation, If the safety valve of free discussion is not opened at the Prope ime it is impossible not to fear an ex tatters wil be ihe pert the State 1 is obvious that, in this event,
and those who are responsible The "Berliner "Topeblat" strong-about it and it is obviously thinking about it in terms which preclude the idea of triumph. All this in connexion with Baron von Burian's remission to Berlin is quite inter-
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