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Show HIE STEALS ALL I BF KAISERS THUNDER . I German Ruler, by Aiding Turkey, Hoped to Cow .World. " 'H NATIONS LOAN OFFICERS H . , 1 Teuton -Tactics and Guns for Sultan and Gallic Methods for -Balkan Allies. 1 IH BY FREDERICK WERNER. Special' Cable to The Trlhune. BJvRLTN, Nov. .16. The events io tho Balkans havo added anotter drop j of gall and wormwood to Germany ?e cup of humiliation, which is now full to overflowing. During the years which. preceded tho conception and birth of 4 the' great Gorman empire, whoso great- 11 ne.s at first rested on its military jl strength, liismarck ont out the armies ll of Prussia, in his mind already destined ) jH to become tho nucloua of the mightiest j power in TJurope, against weaker na-tioua, na-tioua, Denmark first and Austria after-wards, after-wards, to prepare them for fight and J to test; You Moltko's now tactics in , practico beforo provoking tho great, decisive combat with .France. Transformed into veterans by ths practical cxporienco thoy had gained in ! 11 18(5 1 and 1866, tho Prussian soldiers 1 easily defeated Napoleon's armies and jl the German empire was born at Yer- ' sailles. Since those stirring times Gcr-many Gcr-many has steadily sacrificed millions lil to improve its armies and maintain the most formidable fighting organizations tho world has ever seen, but at the same tune it has been careful not to use them and has left it to tho other 1 pooplo lo test tho now tactics which tho military geuiur. of German officer 1 invented. .It was less risky to do so. vM and German officers were sent out all j IH over tho world to train and drill the ll armies of nations likely to bo involved Ml No country in the world has taken I more advantage of Germany's willing-iiesH willing-iiesH to lend her army officers as army i ll instructors than Turkey. In no conn- vM try havo Gorman tactics been moro ' carefully drilled into the brains of of I'l ficers and men, nor German ideas car ried out to the smallest detail in (hr iH construction of forts and laying out of -lines of defense than in Turkey. Nn country has more faithfully bought nil tho guns that German gun factories could spare. For years German military mou and ' diplomats havo foreseen tho war which is now raging and have supplied Tur- ;H koy with a detailed plan of mobiliza- tion and attack. Whenever it Imp- VH ponod lo come, this was to prove to all the world tho undeniable supremacy of Gorman military methods, tactics, ideas j and war material. Without the cost of a drop of German blood nor a mark of Gorman mono" a qreat war whb to (1 strike terror into tho hearts of all Frenchmen, smarting under the memory of tho loss of Alsace-Lorraine and show them y an object lesson what thoy 1 might expect if thoy daTed enter into a fight with tho armies of tho kaiser. The French took up tho silent chal-longe chal-longe and tho country's most brillian general visited King Ferdinand of Bul- garia, -wont over the prospective battle- , fields with him and set his brain to 1 work to outliuo a plan of campaign to I bo pitted against that of Field Marshal rl von der Golts:, while the great French Fl gun factories of Schneider-Creuzjiot '-1 and. Schnoidor-Canot strainod every H nerve to turn out guns superior to those of tho great German Krapp. Thesi lH I'Vcnch guns were supplied to tho Bal- il kan states at tho lowest possible prices. il Tho hour of tho practical test came and Germany lost. The war plana de- lH vised by Gorman military geniue, the iH forts built by German military engi- lH neers, tho tactics invented by German fl strategists, the guns constructed by lH Germany's "Kanon Leenig" Krupn. ll all have been weighed in the balance ll and been found lighter than those of ll tho arch-enemy across tho Yosges. tl The defeat cannot bo concealed, all IH tho world knows it, and the Gorman. fH Socialists, the implacable foes of the H militarism, which thoy consider the- iH curse of their country, are enjoying an iH hour of triumph, and losing no oppor- ijl lunity to toll the millions of readers of 'fl their papers, that tho last prop has been knocketl away from under thn 'll military dictators wbo have hitherto ifl ruled the domestic politics. i.l The "Balkan war has given a death 1 11 blow to German militarism, and robbed Ul it of its- prcstigo. which was its strong- 1 est weapon. And once tho fear of the monster has disappeared from tho minds fH of tho Germans, they will 110 longer por- fl mit thomselves to be dominated by it. jH This is why tJie war may mark the be- jl ginning of a now social era in Gcr- ll many, which it will surely d0 unless tho smaller conflict is followed by a fl greater Eurofwon ono in which Ger- 'H many becomes involved. H tH |