([London,] 14 September 1870 

Dear Oswald, 

Enclosed are 50 corres of our new Address.* There are a few 
printing errors in it, but they do not distort the meaning. We shall 
correct them in the second EDITION. 

Our Central Committee for Germany (residing in Brunswick) 
issued a manifesto to the German workers on 5 September, 
opposing the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine and advocating 
the recognition of the French Republic, etc.’”’ On the orders of 
Vogel von Falckenstein not only were the copies of the manifesto 
confiscated, but also all the members of the Committee—and the 
unfortunate printer,” were arrested INTO THE BARGAIN and transported 
as a body to Létzen‘ in East Prussia.'’” I have immediately sent 
reports of the affair’ to various London papers and shall see if 
they print them. 

The victory in yesterday’s meeting over the people who were 
partly in the pay of the Peace Society,” and partly unindoctrinated, 
WaS QUITE ACCIDENTAL. We were just holding the usual Tuesday 
meeting of the General Council of the International when our 
friends telegraphed from the Strand To comme TO THE RESCUE since they 
would otherwise have been out-voted. And this is just what we 
did.‘” 

You must forgive me for not answering sooner. I am so 
[overwhelmed] with INTERNATIONAL business that, since my return,”? 
I have been unable to get to bed before three in the morn- 
ing. 

Liebknecht has foolishly forgotten to give me a secret address. 
All letters sent direct to him are itercerrep by the police. 

I shall look out some copies of the Volksstaat for you, but I must 

a K. Marx, ‘Second Address of the General Council of the International 
Working Men’s Association on the Franco-Prussian War’. - > Sievers - © Polish 
name: Gizycko. - 4 K. Marx, ‘Concerning the Arrest of the Members of the 
Central Committee of the Social-Democratic Workers’ Party’. 

have them back, together with those I have already given you, 
since I am collecting them. 

Yours, 
K. Marx