The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-01
NEW HERALD TUESDAY APRIL 1873 QUADRUPLE SHEET

the same thing ID going on everywhere In nearl,
every department. q army management
] rsmrked TO the General TINT ne seemed Il
take gloomy vie W on the present state OF miutar.
affairs In france.
we have avery good law Of military recl uirmen,
now; but We have done nothing for military or
ganizatlon, and do not believe We shall be able 70
do much as long as M. Thlers will frame himself
everything concerning the army" -sf
..ls.r BEFORE THE WAR;
Tne conversation then turned to the mismanage-
ment and bad organization OF the army under the
Empire. which can have NJ interest l0r American
readers at present, anu which the General con-
subsequently 60 the outbreak OF the war and che
alliances recently alluded to ny the Duke de Ora
"What the Duke has stated said the General
"is SO true that not only an alliance was promised,
but the whole Plan OF campaign was composed ~
peror, VINO went with the Archduke throash
that work, and asked me to bring that matter
before tho Assembly long before tine Duke
But we subsequently gave up the Idea in ccnse-
qnence OF the same CONSIDERATIONS which are now
spective statement Is wrong. because IL puts the
Austrian Cabinet into useless dtlicnlties with Prus-
sla ana alienates sympathy Irsm France. But We
need not go as far rs VIENNA ADDED the General to
find identical facts. When commanded at Stras-
bourg the Grand Duke OF Hcsse- Darmstadt asked
me several times to come across the Rhine to visit
him. was reluctant to accept the invitation until
saw the Emperor and told him OF IL, 60, BY all
means; the Grand Duke 10 friend Of ours was
long talk had with the Grand DUKE In little
country house The was already too much anAid OF
Prussia to speak OF such matters ut his palace)
the slightest doubt a. to the size on which his
sympathies, az well as those OF Wurtemburg and
Bavaria, would be in case OF French conflict with
Prussia. The only doubtful point Was Baden. But
you must hurry to cross the Rhine, said the Grand
Duke, Tor II the Emperor Is slow In his prepare
lions the whole OF South Germany, now thoroughly
hostile 10 Prussia, Will be taken into the great
German current without our being abe to resist,
could get. I showed him that with 5000 men
entering German territory from Atsace and 10000
more from Lorraine, having reserve that would
bring the army to 100000, we could have, In lew
days, the whole OF South Germany with as. But
that ought to have been done tweivemonth pc
fore we were routed at WOerth, and have already
told you what the Emperor and his Cabinet NOR
did with all my letters and suggestions"
1t was nearly midnight now, and the General
seemed 80 grteved whenever the conversation
turned to past events, which seemed, however,
stantly returned, that rot up from my chair to
take leave OF him. But he still talked OF Sedan, Of
Woerth. Of Paris and OF that unhappy Wssem-
prevent aud In which lie lost his best brigadier
general. have never yet seen Frenchman so
full OF deep sorrow for the past, and SO thor
idea Of another night with the Germans and Of an
ultimate recognition OF French military honor.
THE LOOK AHEAD. W.
s'But what do you think OF the more prOximate
future ~ asked the General when we were stand.
ing on the threshold OF the quiet, old-fashioned
drawing room taking leave Of each other.
blows once a more which am afad We sSa NJ
Theirs will probably manage, one way or another,
to keep the power In his hands until the day OF his
about seventeen years OF age, and am BY no
means that he is not the person that Is to
coed M. lie President. But you know how difficult
1t Is with US to SAY anything positive about the
morrow