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In any case, here is the essential difference of opinion

between Biitain and France. We have set forth else- where what we believe the French will discover too late. Here we shall only record briefly the signs that Germany_ is going to exhaust every device in the bitter game of passive resistance—political, social and economic. She has begun. by recalling her Ambassador from Paris, while the controllers of the coal industry have removed the whole of their staff from Essen to Hamburg. In all probability there will be a miners' strike, which must prove a terrible embarrassment to France. But even if this does not happen, and at first France's task seems comparatively easy, her difficulties will grow day by day.

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