Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1890 — WHAT COL STOPPEL SAYS. [ARTICLE]

WHAT COL STOPPEL SAYS.

He Recommends an Offensive and Defensive Alliance. Pans eabler A sensation has been caused here by the publication of a pamphlet by Col. Stppel, formerly military attache of the French embassy in Berlin, and who, prior to 1870, warned hi? gavernment that the admirable organization of the German army would render war against it by France disastrous. In his pamphlet the colonel recommends an offensive and defensive alliance between France and Germany to oppose Russian aggression, but he adds that this alliance will be possible only if Alsace-Lor-raine is returned to France.