A remarkable article entitled " Le Maroc et le jeu
.Allemand " appears in the last number of L'Eaergis Francaise, a new weekly conducted by the well-known French publicist, M. Cheradame. M. Cheradame holds that France made a great, though pardonable, mistake in associating herself with the intervention of Germany and Russia after the Chino-Japanese War in 1895. More than that, he considers that by com- mitting Russia to a premature forward policy in the Far East, the Kaiser achieved the greatest German diplomatic triumph since the proclamation of the Empire. Germany, now relieved from any anxiety on her Eastern border, has been enabled to promote a disintegrating policy in Austria, and to mass troops and enormously strengthen her striking power on the side of Alsace-Lorraine ; while France has been simultaneously weakened by the results of the Dreyfus affair, the system of delation, and the new short-service system. In a word, the actual state of France invites Germany to make war, and to make it suddenly, the most tempting prize being France's colonies, which Germany needs to develop her commerce and provide for the overspill of her population. We hold that M. Cheradame is altogether too alarmist in regard to the risks of a sudden attack by Germany, but, nevertheless, his articles promise to be suggestive, even if excitable.
