Agitation Alarms France.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 27, 1913:
Government Reported in Panic Over Anti-Militarist Campaign.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Tuesday, May 27.— Telegraphic and telephonic messages from Paris, received in London last night, depict the conditions in France arising out of the opposition to the three-year military service plan as very serious. Most of the London papers take the same view.
    The Paris correspondent of The Times quotes an article by Clemenceau, asserting that the Government must act or die. The Cabinet, according to Clemenceau, is a Ministry of weakness. The Government, he says, must grapple resolutely with the frankly anti-militarist character of much of the opposition to the three years' bill. The anti-militarist campaign has grown with the spread of the syndicalist movement, and its machinery is now really formidable. A different but even more alarming line is taken by the Paris correspondent of The Daily Citizen, a London labor journal, who sends by telephone a dispatch which the telegraph authorities refused to transmit.
    The attempt to exercise censorship over telegrams, says the correspondent, shows that the Government is losing its head. The raid upon the anti-militarists in all parts of France is described as a measure of sheer panic.
    "The agitation against the three years' service," the correspondent adds, "is growing. Soldiers in all parts of the country are confined to the barracks, and all leave has been stopped. The usual Summer manoeuvres have been countermanded as dangerous. The private letters of soldiers are being intercepted.
    "The military Authorities have lost their heads to such an extent that they give orders and counter-orders several times a day."
    Conditions which prevail in the Russian Army have been created in the French, according to The Citizen's correspondent.