Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-02-09 | Page 15 | Army Methods Are Becoming Popular

ARMY METHODS ARE j BECOMING POPULAR Special Cablo to Tho Tribune. PARIS, Fob. S. In .moro wuys than one, the war In the Balkans has brought Franco advantage. Millions of French capital will bo invested In tho victorious states, which will sot to work immediately to develop the rosourccs of their newly-acquired territories. terri-tories. But probably nothing will bring more money Into Franco than the proven superiority of French guns to thoFc of tho fnmous Krupp factories In Germany. Orders for guns nre pouring into France from all parts of the world. But what tlokles the Fronch nation even moro than this material gain Is tho fact that, as In thc days of Napoleon, the world has eomo to look, upon Fronch military tactics and training as siperlor to uny other In the world. Tho victorious armies of the Balkan allies- were trained according to French Ideas, and from all states, that still occasionally oc-casionally Indulge In warfare, officers are arriving to study in Franco and requests re-quests are mado for French army instructions, in-structions, Naturally moat of these requests re-quests come from tho aver fermenting continent of South America and negotiations negotia-tions havo been begun by tho Uruguayan government for obtaining a military commission com-mission composed of officers of all arms to act as professors and inspectors In tho schools of Monte Video, Bolivia and Guatemala havo nloo engaged two sml-Inr sml-Inr missions, and two other republican states of Latln-Amorlca have applied for French help in reorganizing their military systems. The contracts of French Instructors already employed at Limn, In Peru, and Snn Paulo, in Brazil, Bra-zil, have boon renewed for lontr periods, and a now post of French military attache at-tache baa boon created at Bueno Ayres, whilst one of naval "attache Is contem-plnted contem-plnted In tho near future, Central nnd South America are not the only countries tliut have- lately been appealing to France, and not many months ago, when China doaided to reorganize re-organize hor army, tho government chose French officers for tho tuak.