On Friday week in the Reichstag the Socialist deputy, Dr.
Liebknecht, brought charges of corruption against the great firm of Krupp and against officials of the Prussian War Office, which have produced a most painful impression through- out Germany. The allegations against Krupps are only the climax of a series of charges brought by Dr. Liebknecht. He maintains, according to the account in the Times, that certain German armament firms work partly with French capital and French directors, and so promote internationally the increase of armaments. The Socialist press has reproduced an old letter from the Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabrik giving instructions for the publication in sonic widely read French newspaper of an announcement that the French Government intended to double the number of machine guns already ordered. This disclosure of the use of the foreign press will not surprise anyone who remembers the practices of Bismarck.
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