The German Princes are dreadfully troubled by a new demand
from the American Government, which is said to be very strongly pressed. German emigrants usually choose as their date of de- parture the year before their turn comes to submit to conscription, tint if they ever go back the Governments catch them, and make them try their chance again. The Washington Government, which regards them as naturalized citizens, considers this an oppression, and requests the Princes either to repeal the law or abstain from putting it into force. The Princes, embarrassed by the extreme popularity of the North in Germany, would comply, but they say compliance would enormously increase an emigration -which already alarms them. They will probably contrive to com- ply secretly, but the attractive force of America is becoming an important element in European politics. It keeps up a process of evaporation so rapid that the reservoirs cannot remain full.
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