| Show Germany Geln n Beady Re dy For War lf At Hours Notice ot ce wot of the Great V Von on n Maltko Will Command n hi Unique Or The Brains rains or Of the tile German Gotman Army Arm and ifs it GeaD Staff Numbers Severn Several Hundred Thousand Picked Exports in Last Idea of Modern Warfare Correspond nee Feb This Is Iii not n it ball bali B time t to examine the Ihno General Malt of oe tine Die Herman German arm to tu tInt of o which Lount Still sou thu the able ubi o oHis or of the His of ot Napoleon apoleon I I I was IS re rc appointed al by tine the Ier el I havu obtaining alit lug conno mio omo I Information iii tion tIun on tints this II n 1 11 organizatIon be Germany Is II depending on Its per perfection to tit ln In her h r wais of ot the future ninth and there U It I a feeling that Its useful usefulness u ness niI limy bo Ito put JUI to to tho tino test before long bug with tranco l I Is of or course nl al alvA wo vA Oil on tho tint horizon It Id bi nov 1101 no 1111 s M st m t ret th that it ut lit tilt the time lime of the Deli tn e C Incident of lust last June the thc two t 10 1111 on tilL the of Cf war ar I there Is U no tolling when s 1 heu crisis may amp In lit l as its Is well known the mil mit tun party has hall long Ions desired to nut time tho of ot the tile overwhelming Ills die r i iS S JJ I COUNT VON MOLTKE TIme New Nci C 1 of or Cot mans Onera ral Stu IT that th t belongs to thin tho leadership In Itt tin tb organization of Its ItH staff the kalser x K army cannot be approach approached ed And tills this Is IK not lIot the tho mere outcome of at clr limit hut tine tito result ro of n R PIO s or of careful natural selection 1111 tint disturbed dl by liy political change tint thai has hi gone on In to 10 u a policy plIc ever eler shue the grout Moltke shape hapl l 1 18 its HIlIe lIe Our next war var said satel Moltke will bo ho ono one of or directive Other armies may have hwe equal number and tin furies forces hut but none anne will have hac the tine perfection of or tho tiro German staff T litls his la I tho tine crucial point tho ke kl key to th tim whole with to the thea a army arni organization today Many articles have been licen written on ott be tine German u Hit s It a fighting unit dealing with Us lis numbers power mobilization artillery r raIlways anti and other departments hut but little li Is known of or tho the Intimate composition and training of or its Ite staff start MANY WAit Will hila to tine the German O empire as M su such b his has no specific ministry of ot war ar there are ore ii number of or war ministers whoso o stations lire are at nt Berlin Munich Dresden n and Stuttgart and who hio act respective tive UIel for tor the Prussian Pru Bavarian Six Sax on III end contingents of oC no German arm arm Orders from tram the emper emperor or direct are art conveyed by the war ministry at Berlin to tho thu war min ministers minIsters mm of ot the tile other othor states the Prussian hy by b tIne the way holing belne belli the most roost Important and practically the tile focus of the tho various centers of ot direction The rhe personnel of ot the general array officers at lIt Berlin Is It ninde up of at 30 mien nion anti and these are arc the tue pick of the th brains of or the whole armY In Imn ordel to become head of tine the Prussian sian ii central governing body hod moans chief of ot the general staff taff onto one and one only Is U needed merit The Ili Ihl position Is open to tt It all nih 1 l Iy by y nn an muy ono one In to the tho army who iro displays s exceptional amid It Is this fact tact that has hal to time the th army that won von wonderful ul unity which Is the tho manel of ot AH As airy American boy bo fome mome day be he president w so any German soldier f may ilia become the tho chief of ar tho tIne German array army arm COUNT VON 0 ON In accordance with this tradition the new lIe chief of or the general staff lit II f tho the present Count clint von on hid hail to work vork his Ills way Wimy up fion fro 11 a in C minot minor position no Ito nofa fa favoritism him hint by h lila his famous uncle lie begun began ns as tenant Lenient and during the lie last list himself oa out oatho tine the r the tho Iron croB for lor During the years en between Isn he acted an nM adjutant to cc I tine the great on lilt His close clo con eon connection I with his uncle enabled him to te receiVe a C Insight into lute tho the mind of tho the greatest military III ry genius since It II la Is probably this thU very ery In timney that tint his bias ha l him for tor the tine post he holds today Naturally It Is Ii the time dreim II rea of eVel cvet nuttier and amid every petty In lit the tho th army to tin obtain u a I post of 01 Mime omna om Und kind In III tho the directing force forie General must above all lie be hI of Cl conception In I ment down to the roost most minute dot II detail tall ill arid ond must mullet Io lie capable of or planning and I executing nil nih lice tho greot movements of ot otI troops troop timid and war material from place to I place The training of who wino have at nt stiff start tank lit lii I t h men mien In Inn the ranks display such marked ability that they seem suitable for tor Ht staff iff positions they tine the are aro sent ent to tn vari various arI ous Ol technical 1 located III In parts of tho lute Ibus I then hero Is In a II magnificent m shooting school for tor or infantry at nt In Inn lI there titer Is III ont one on of tine the fenc telle fencing ing In tho tIne world while at lit vii none points alf aio Or of ot anal Institutes for tor or from Held field to PUOS S WAN COLI GJ Ih I lie famous or war ar college hn has hils not hot Its in tho time Here lere I rs rl for tor thu intuit strategy and antI high bight I fhe I Inns has hasi 11 lie i 1 by It other oUter nut Ion hut It clouds today tolay alone us na IS the soft till mill military of ot Its It II kind with v th high honors homers at lit er erv v ir Ill have bao failed again ond agaIn to the tho ordinary exclaim ex III I of o the tine J ler TIne The artill ry In mi tho Ito German L Ly Ly Ll I K K MW y I y l A tr H arT fl I t f y t ty tt f 7 7 1 X I t Y A A AI t tt t 1 t y g gri 1 t Y 1 i t X f ri iTI 7 Y y I C CI I v vr r I f fy y A AY v Y I I 1 Y Y Y Y t 1 f v Xv X iM iMOE 1000 4 J X OO X OE GENERAL COMMAND ING TENTH ARMY CORPS CORIS AND AIDES army arc are ln In several schools of ut gunnery graded K eo a III as to tn take each I man through brought n ci thorough courtne coure They Tho CIC event even taught pyrotechnics und kenny how hen to tn make imke up tip their own pow powder poWder der and amid If Ie need fleer be cast their own Buns Officers BO JO through the tho th am anti ammunition factories ami artillery York work anil nut beside being b skilled medium Icu lell have to pass a 1 in musters In higher mathematics mathematic and the study of projectile On Joining tho tire general staff German ollie tIll a are aro assigned to the study tot ot ottine tine the army organization and un mid tc conditions of all l countries coil and besides h this tImi have hilI to Keep beep up III their thelt studios studies Inch lach of ue officer hirer of thu tire general staff start mint be he a 1 linguist of ot the thu order capable of J French Italian Kalian and 1111 I other modern tongues cud and must minuet bo be beable able not only to speak these es but to read them without difficult the tine special corps of or export co tIts t there thre are IHO several corps carpI of ot railway experts These linese men intent must minuet mu t be he capable of or undertaking every department depart of or railway work from building locomotives to roads Their principal In Inn unite time of ot peace ponce Is near Berlin where they operate a railway 33 unties miles s In imi extent This Thill road Is run tun as an far Car as IS and those who ho study Its lis working am urt com composed C lIn posed of o three regiments re drafted from Prussia Saxon mb rg and amid Hi nl Hiden lIen den In Tn limo of rapid movement of ot the tho army ormy tram from place Ilia co to place or at ut a n mobilization tints this railway force torce has proved wonderfully effective A Attached to every corps Is a Ipe department but to Lo this tints Is la a battalion at itt Pat dam whose whole winnie work H is I given 1 11 up tip to experimentation and amid re resea This trios trIes beforehand every o en conceivable suggestion that would woul 1 for tor All A II 11 new nell weapons government of ur and every ery detail of a I nt Is la eti to tn most tC tH It U lIIS tills this cors that lint thu tho on oil certain uniforms could l be seen men at lit lung long longer lunger er distances than limn thone thoo tho e on nn othora and amid that provIded covering co for tor such aunt hut but buttons tons tOil illS I ho 50 o us 1113 not mint ti tin attract th n tire the This has of ot tel now devico In Iii U ht was wits through h this his I department depart uncut that Ii the lie t Gorman was the time Urn In III m mu adopt tine tho in ii rille nt he In I ii thU tin I a battalion nil tho tino conditions of ot actual Will war ale uie re reproduced rt r produced lined Naturally Na t I y lt itt iii a art arm kept kelt secret from rota time tho outer This special scientific body Is liar to tho tine German Jorman army arm Other in 1 armies have hivo mimi and schools but there lucre Is no peculiar I body Loll which subunits submits all nit modern ern Im lot I to actual tests such n all aS would occur In war wor I It wan Willi from tithe this moths body of ot military I scientists that th t the emma ramo for forthe forthe the great gr at tests tc ts rides rille for tor cavalry alit cers cerR which were sero w ro out nit between near macar n ar the tie Itus hlll frontier to This Tills Idea his bias also been adopted by h n a id other lither oh tier l n nil I o hut but origin with Ith nermal len the horses horles of or tho tIme German c ell a rainy corps undergo special training under tine thu most scientific methods All horses are aro bought at the ng age of or three eau ears and amid Intro have to undergo a II special hardening process where their minus mus muscles cles cie are arc trained l down to the time exact limit of or The They undergo otto otia years ears training before they thay are nrc placed In the cavalry service and anti they are aro not Riven their full activity until they tile are tire K It IteA eA rs old The German horse batteries are said to be lao the tho quickest best trained l tp 11 V Europe The Tine gunners follow their thelL guns on en horseback and do not hot rIde on ott the cal clIl a nil as with most other arm aria iou leH Tills this Is said ahl to save a n great grat d al alof of o time end and to nil aid In the quick maul mani manipulation of the tho weapons No o army In iii Europe l inn mobilize more minors rapidly than luau that thaI of Germany As soon as the tine mobilization ord r which must come corno from the Is Issued I It Is ti telegraphed telegraph ell to tho thi various tinny lum corps lUrlI throughout tho the country cud and goes oe Into effect almost the Instant In It Is U UTho The Tho tune time for pr to mobilization ot of the lie German army Is I tumId said to inc lio t c days and a II half that thai for tor franco France francoIs Is I said to tl bo be live double thu I time In Germany nil ill tho hue I If for foi f tho the reserves re are ra ati ah tilled filled out and A signed and kept constantly requiring to be ho stamped with a ui unite date which b II ma machinery chinery con can be done In Inn nn nun hour lour or two to of the Is pledged l eI eIto to In his hIp It ItIs ItIs Is It Issued IS lIell cud to to tn tine tho com coin command mend mand assigned him bite Like the tho lifeboat drill on omi a 1 big liner ouch ellch man In Inthe Inthe Intire the tire reserves re knows just Jim Continued on ott page 14 It I 00 W o 0 It t 1 1 J J ff I V i r 51 fI r t tiT I V VJ 1 I J i 1 4 It I 1 f 11 I I t J yIo 1 J rt I t I r Ii IiI J I I If 1 1 i I t I r X 1 4 t I J JV JI t tI 1 I t f t jr i y yI I V I TF I 1 i 1 1 J i A 1 1 ox o oo 5 X W X x o oI I OB O SUTHERLAND FAMOUS PALACE lALA JE WHICH JR 0 OP OF SUTHERLAND GAVE AW AWAY AT DUKE OF SUTHERLAND S r of 4 f 4 t ti 1 JU j 1 ili GERMANY READY FOR WAR AT AN HOURS NOTICE tjI ti ii from m page 13 where to BO go o on receiving his summons And Ami with the special railway j always placed at the command of ot the theUern an army the whole force can be oa beIr transported Ir front from place to with the utmost rapidity TWO The two great governing principles in m inthe the German army organization are hut Bret iho tho bearing of ot arm i iby by every eer citizen and sec lIec secondly secondly education and ability as II a It means i atu a I necessity for Cor advance advancement merit ment Even the princes of ot the royal rojal I House ol oj must serve their time of training Just JUt the thO same I mo BH as I the tho eon son of ot the tho peasant Much has hns been b en made of at military con In Jerman and the awful of serving In on one department or another from the seventeenth to the tha year As ts a matter matt r of lit fart fact tl ct Ilea lies very lightly on the thit terman Jerman people The army U le In fact the great educational system of o tho the empire AM As early as liS the BK age of 10 chit chil children dren IIren to enter the army In post lot positions of o honor on coming corning of aGe ane begin their studies at one or the other of o the N II m various cadet schools scattered liberal liberally ly I throughout the and from Crom theta these schools they the enter the tha various special technical Institutes for tor tha tho training of oC soldiers according to the tha branch brunch of oC service to which they wish to devote their lives The Tha army If It looked fit ot correctly U Is I the tha real life of oC the thu and while a number of ot persons whose love for the fatherland 1 Is 11 not eo en 0 Intense e us as It might bo ho leave lerwo Germany each men year and seek Reek refuge e In foreign lands the fact remains that the tho army Is le the of the German lerman who Is con content content content tent to stay toy at homo home This Is amply demonstrated by tho the men who have Joined what la known an rut the Irle or as ae notations of or men teen who hll have been hon lion honorably orally discharged dl from Cram the army who wish llah to keep up their military connee connection Pone tion and to help each cacti other and the country countr In tin time of oC trees stress These display the tho real attachment which the tha th German entertain for Cor their army Institutions ACTUAL ARMY The Tho strength of oC the tho German army Is approximately men actually with the tho colors color As s a matter of oC fact however with tho the calling of ot the tho Land Lind Landwehr Landwehr wehr und and not less leee than highly trained and aM sot sol there can ran be bo summoned to the colors The Tho keeping kee up of oC army ormy feeling and training by tho ho oven after orter men have pawed passed out of ot the army brings mother tho total strength of the tho available force Coree being In Irja Ina a n crisis oo O O trained fighters though tho the exact army urmy force Is ts given at 1 t men not Including tho one year ear volunteers The general notion seems to b be that any and everybody Is II drafted Into tho the service but this Ihl Is I far from Crom being tho case ca In order to get Into tho the army MillY an unblemished private character Is I s nary No N criminals or low characters are ore allowed to enter the tho army and the till profession of oC soldier Is II looked upon as aB asa aBa asa a high one Von Moltke said sald of ot the tho honor of belonging to tho the dor Orr dorman man army Eternal peace Is le not only anI anIn n a dream but not even a happy dream War Var Is li an nn Institution of God Goda a pie of oC order In tho the 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