Show WAR EXPERTS KEEPING SECRETS ttABIJINOTON Aut 4 Ml tary ex p h ) ere agreed on t t that if he pose of the genera ataffs of the I renc and German arm es Is lo con oa the objects of their ampa gna un il tie completion of molillzaton they ha e huc eeded wonderfully so far au the out s de world Is con erned at eas Off cers of the army gene al s aff said bo far no facta had appeared In the news d spatches or the official reports which pe mlt them to 1 azard a fair guess as to what Is in the minda of the great French and German strategists Tl e one thing they agree upon is the contacts reported today from various points on the French and German border 1 ke t ose which 1 ave preceded them are in onse uent a Such movements as tl e cross ng of the German troops into Frencl territory near Mars la Tour the raid by the Germans across the Belgian front er nea Gemmenleh and the drop ffng of bombs from German aeroplanes nto the Frencl fortreaB at Lunevllle are regarded as nothing more than screens for the tacticians behind which they are arranging their pawns for the great game which is to decide the future of continental Furope The op nlon here is that German mobtl izat on wll be completed in about ten da s American officers are watching with particular Interest Germany s attitude toward Be glum They be eve that even without the redemption of the British guarantee of neutrality the Be glans can give a very good account of themselves During the Franco Pruss an war the lit tie nation turned out an army of 250 000 men which successfully maintained th integrity of Belgian soil. On a war footing the Be gium troops now number 275 000 according to the last technical report. |