Germany is greatly moved by a military scandal. Several Jews
and two or three officers have been tried in Hanover and condemned on a charge of conspiring to induce officers to gamble, and then extorting usurious interest on loans they were practically forced to accept. No less than forty-seven officers were called as witnesses, and it was shown not only that they played high—an offence under military law—but what seems to have shocked opinion still more, they associated and played cards with Jew money-lenders. The Radicals draw from this the deduction that aristocratic society is rotten ; while the Anti-Semites explain that the rottenness is due entirely to Jews. It is believed that the Emperor, who has sent for the papers, and who hates gambling as interfering with that equality of dignified poverty among officers upon which the German Army is based, will take very severe measures in order to root out the evil.
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