The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-16
GERMAN ACTIVITIES
MAKE FRENCH UNEASY
Latest Plans for Increase Of Teu.
tonic Army Regarded
With Anxiety
APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT
Paris Newspapers Full of Runors
of Alliance Between France /
and Spain a.
APPEAL TO GOVERNMENT
PARIS, March is.

PARIS, March Is.
Nervousness in France with regard TO
the political situation is becoming moro
acute and the Paria newspapers are ap.
pealng to the government to act as pa
triots and to act quickly. The general
opinion here-expressed in every news
one meets-is that Germany is talking
peace and Is preparing for war.
The Matin has sent NJ. Jules Hede-
mann. the prominent correspondent, to
Berlin, and his kilograms this morning
are distinctly gloomy. THE reichstag,"
he says, will accept the new army bill
before Easter. and when 1t is remem-
bercd that. although the military credit
OF 1912 WAS to have been spread over
a number OF years. the ornaments for
which II provided are already In exist
ence. It Is easy to see what this new
decision OF the German government
means
Larger German Increase
I'VE may expect" says NJ. Hedemann.
"a moro considerable increase of Ger,
man military electives than was at first
believed. The general staff Is asking for
more than the minister Of war and the
emperor's military advieers allotted at
first"
NJ. HedemanD says that the German
Socialists have ceased to oppose the army
DILL. and points out the fallacy OF the
German contention that there Is nothing
aggressive in it. He declares that Ger
many would have troubled the peace OF
Europe several times during the last
forty-two years IL tho armed forces with
which she would have to contend had not
been so powerful that she feared a con-
fict.
In 1900 over Morocco the German enper-
OF declared. II am behind Morocco" and
Prince Buelow said to the French am
bassador In Berlin, DO careful; you are
on the edge OF O preclpice." In 1905, when
apologies over the Casablanca affair,
Prince Buelow used threatening Language
again. In 1909. when Austria annexed
Bosnia and Herzegovina and tore up the
Berlin treaty. the German ambassador
In ST. Petersburg warned NJ Isrolsky that
Germany WAS behind Austria. The act
OF Agadir is fresh In everybodys memory.
The situation is anything but reassur-
ing says NJ. Hedemann. There Ia no
other motive but the obvious motive for
Ism can only prevail! when France and
Russia have neutralized, by eficacious
military measures. the domination which
the German government Is trying to i'm
pose on Europe
Franco-Spanish Alliancep
The Paris newspapers are full OF
rumors. Great prominence is given to
an article in a Madrid military paper, in
which 1t Is suggested that Spain Is ouite
ready to enter into a military alliance
with France. and has an army OF no 0O0
men at her disposal
prominence is also given to kilograms
from Brussels describing the flight over
wentsrn Flanders OF a mysterious airship
last night. The airship was attended by
motor-car with a searchlght, and the
kilograms declare that 1t was a German
military airship on scouting service.
a balloon with four German officers in
1t grounded at Pepinster. near the Belgian
frontier. yesterday. and another one yas
seen over Verviers.