Show GERMAN JERMAN OffiCER I SAYS WE VIE NEED A ABIG I BIG STANDING ARMY But He lIe Is a Manufacturer of Guns and War Ma Ma- S V KE YORK YOm Dec 6 Another Another distinguished distin foreign military authority Is ts the he guest of New York City today lie IIo Is General Ernest Von tho 1110 German army's chief authority on artil arUl lery Ho comes comen to America to witness some onia government tests at Sandy Sand Hook aa RH the representative z o of the Ehrhard company compan manufacturers of guns and am am- This concern which labors officially under the tho title of 1 Und l Dua- Dua seldor is the chief clief German competitor tor of or tho Krupp works General Von comes with wars alarums The United J Is not prepared lor fOr war he be declares A reserve army is needed for or rich Hal Ions must Asked In Id Ills his would have to totI tI tight fight ht Japan and whether she was va prepared pre pre- pared for war wat be ho said sald As to a a. war between America and Japan I 1 cannot sp speak ak but I 1 have an Idea la Is It not so If Ir I should s peak k ak it would got get into the papers and at homo make trouble for me But I can cansay cansay say that America is not for prepared war war and and th that t. t is bad Thinks General Wood Right Eight V Tho general continued General Wood was perfectly right in asking aking congress to give ghe him mone money with which to keep a a. largo large reserve arm army of several hundred thousands at his hia his beck beck and call cull I 1 would go much further I would auld urge universal conscription here as we have In Germany So you ou will ill see it first In England and aud then in the United States It is a necessity The time for disarmament is n not t approaching approach approach- ing Will vm the tho time lime ever or come when men man cease to cat eat No o. o Well a lL great many people think t civilization and peace are arc one and the tile same It i is iK lust Just tIle op op- op- op Tho The richer a nation becomes the themore moro more sho she must arm herself A poor man does docs not need protection It is the rich richman richman richman man who ho must defend his goods good So with tho nations War Var is a natural function a R. law of nature Wo see sec It all around us in the struggle lc for ex existence cx cx- the tho struggle for lifo life itself Where here will It all nil end Well Wen each cach nation nallon must arm herself up to her ca ca- ca If It a man strikes me I J would not hold lold one hand behind my back Nd I J would fight tight with both hands and both feet So will the nations always prepare pro pre paro pare to fight fl ht with all tho the power they tho have nave They Ther must Must be Ready Beady It H is necessary to prepare preparo 10 for war warin warIn in peace leace You cant can't count V on n militia you Ou must have havo an army so mu mustered and aud equipped d that it can b be mobilized on tho frontiers In the tho shortest possible time After war has been declared a nation must not welt walt to strike she he must strike immediately The Tho Japanese did not wait walt after tho the nU Russian flan war started General Moltke said ald when asked cd what I ho would do if war were declared that lI press an cl button and that if ho he had to fight after alter that he he would consider himself a a. bad bid soldier The remark of II H. H. H Rogers Rogera on his return from Germany that the th American American Ameri Ameri- can army was 1 employing tactics years old General Von did not a agree reo with Ith lie He explained that the American ann army what that there wa was of It ft was up lip to date but that on account of its lack of sizo it could not practice those maneuvers which made a R. large arm army most moat effective and aud which were necessary necessary nee nee- essary in these days for tho Uio successful conduct of war war- |