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Show I THE SPANISH PORK PRESS. SPANISH PORK. UTAH. rlally of Prussia. These men, after about twelve years of service In an army where discipline, obedience ant efficiency art lbs Aral and last word, are then drafted Into all the minor administrative offices of tba state, such aa minor railway, post, eeclne, municipal and police. The reader wll aee lha significance of tbla when It la pointed out that not only tba emplra hut tbn war machine baa three d men at Its beck and call Tba samt thing applies to tba drafting of officers to moat of tba higher and highest admlnletratlve positions In Ibe atate. Revelations of the Kaisers Personal Spy Dy Dr, Armgaard Karl Cravet well-traine- Who, for a Number of Yws Prior to His Arrest and Betrayal in England in 1912, was Emperor William's Most Trusted Personal Spy, class A1 vessel In the marine of Hermany, especially the passenger boats of the big steamAs every mer-cha- ship lines, can be pressed into government service, so can all motor vehicles, tails and trucks owned either privately or by corporation be called upon If conaldered necessary, Through thia vast and far reachlng system of transportation Germany la enabled to throw a million fully equipped mep on to either of her frontiers within IV hours, Hbe can double this bust in CO hours more. Vlctualiiatlen. vii carefully cut Into eectlona, each of those eft lone being In charge of two Ulcere and a aecreiary whose ole duty It was to acquaint and make themselves perfectly familiar wltb everything In that particular l silty. Through lha system of espionage, the latest and most up to- data Information la always forthcom Ing, and time and again I myaelf, ofien returning from a mission like one of those to the naval base In Scotland, have sat by the boar verbally amplify- Ing my previous report. A part or the Intelligence system Is the personality squad, whose duty It is to acquaint themselves with the per- sonallly of every army and navy off)-cer of the leading powers. the lifting power baa also been come, Tbo power of iht ordinary hf drogen gaa In all Its varloue furm been multiplied threefold by a nJw gas discovered at the ipandan torero ment chemical laboratory. This ns haa also tha enormoua advantase or being absolutely uninflammable, Tha wonderful system of the Gee. man war tnachlna baa been installed with rare detail In the aerial cons The equipment of the different tion. ht really marvelous, for I thing human Ingenuity haa been able to devise concerning the dirigible you will And In application. Each stall., q Is fully equipped and Is sn absolutely Independent center In Itself, Take the base at Helgoland. It Is the newest and the one that Is always cloaked with secrecy. Guarding th Dirigibles, At the extreme eastern corner 14 Ibe (stand of Helgoland one sees, amid Ih sandy dunes, three vast oblong Irongray structures. At a distance they are not unlike overgrown I say at a distance, fur It Is Impossible for any visitor to i within a thousand yards of the lion. The solitary spproach la guarded by a triple post of the marine guard. If you walk toward the u lion, before you come whhin a hundred yards of the guard, you will And large signs selling forth lo unmistakable and terse language that dire and m 11 .! Napoleon's dictum that an array There are twenty-livarray corps, marches on Its stomach la as true toIn 'blared CirnW. im. Sr Ms ttfcwiM Si4wu. Im4 strategical positions. day as It was then, adequate proviThe control of tba array In peace sions for man and beast being the h Molikt being an or In war Ilea with German War Machine the Most I the emperor, lie most Incessant chess player, Herlngqn a Ute sole arbiter and head. Important factor in military sciAerial Weapons. . Elaborate Ever Devised No one of bla The economic feeding of using every ence, spare momeuta or Within social the last few years sn co- body of men baa any lo play with lead aoldlera. II In re control In by Man. of a million men In nmw matters. army dl.n.0 ? lolled to have an army of 30,000 lead time is work enough. It become a Ideas, most Important factor has enThe War Chest (This artlrfo on the German nr aoldlera with which bn playa tbn mo serious problem In the event of war, tered and seriously disturbed the relawas written by tr, Graves sev-ra- l ment he opens Ida eyes- - much In tba . last but not least under the beading especially In a country Ilka Her weeks before Germany's declara- same manner aa Molthe, wbo used to I1 organisation cornea the financial aa many, which Is some hat dependent tive military power of European naThis Is the serial weapon. tion of war utwn wt of the live milliards of on outside sources for the feeding of tions. precipitated request bla chessboard Ibe Drat thing Jf' Since the days of Otto Llllcnlhal tha European war. In rending the in ibe morning. frnnne, the war In military circles Indemnity paid by Iter millions. and hie glider, It has been the policy srtlrln It would bn mil to keep this lleerlngen la looked upon with the France to (lermany in 1171, 200.rmo.0o0 a of aware The authorities, quite of Hermany to keep track of all Invenfart In mln4.) same respect and accredited with marks In gold coins, mostly French, possible blocking and consequent tions were Tli numerical strength, dluposlilon quite aa much likely to be embodied and made put away aa the nucleus of a stoppage of Imports, have made prepastrategical knowledge and efficiency of th (lerman army ar as Multke was. ready war chest In a little medieval-lookin- rations with their usual thorough Her- use of In the war machine. It Is far amra or less well known. The brain watch lower, the Julius Thurm man completeness. At any given time cry from IJIenthal's glider to the last It la a significant fact that, whenword In aerial construction such as and all prevailing poaer controlling a ever there has been any tension In near Hpandau, Ilea this there Is sufficient foodstuff for man IxhlliiR force of l,f 00,11110 men la, bow Europe, especially between (lermany. driving force of the mightiest war co and beast stored In state storehouses the mysterious Zeppelin-Fsrseva- l sky ever, not known. Here for the first I and France, (leneral von world baa ever seen, complement or I concerns to feed monster that, carrying and the lleerlngen private large time la published an account of the I bla comrade In arms, (leneral von Hub I It I ver Increasing, for of twenty-Avmen and twelve tons of quietly and the entire Herman army for twelve Inside worklnga of Ibe Herman war sen llaeseler-al- so a great strategist unobtrusively g.ouo.otm marks In months. This might seem Inadequate, explosives, sailed across the North lulfe tistti ts If lorn - AIM ? machine so far aa It la possible fur and an Iron dlerlpllnarlan-imme- diover London, and returned minted gold coins are taken but It Is not. the authorities being e I any one man to give them. Through ately baa taken command of Mats, the fear by year and added to the Germany. GeJm.n store, aware that war In Euro, at tbe pres- my Intimate connections with the Her-- f most Important base and .h , rn.n It Is my purpose here to tell you military poet II This money is under the sole con-ma- eht time could not and would not last land have found out that even the and other aecret service ays-- In the emperor's domain. of the military authorities. It longer than such a period. how far Hermany bas advanced and of the rules of slightest lema, through constant contact with I There la no men alive who knows I Infringement of'en been declared Once a year these storehouse are progressed In this struggle for myth. I prominent army and navy officers, 1 one-halaa much about the strategical I k,,ow It to be a fact. Notwlthstand- - overhauled and perishable or deterlo-- tery of the sky. I sball disclose facts these signs la dangerous. 1 shall, however, take you a little closer. I Mn Auandal straits Hermany has upwctal facilities, of I position of Mels and the rating provisions replaced. Tens of bout her system that have never sp- hlch I havs availed myself to tba country aa General von surrounding on Walking on until you are within Afty at In or times, may KO thousands of tons of foodstuffs, espe- peared lleerlngen. print that have never been full to gain the Inside knowledge Often on bitter cold winter through, this money will never ha cially fodder, are sold far below tbelr heard In conversation. "hy ar yafds of the great balloon sheds, you stormy, which I here commit to paper. nights, sentries on outposts stationed touched. It Is there for one purpose usual market value to the poorer known only to the general staff at Der-ll- pause before a tall fence of barbed at and guarding the approaches of only and that purpose la war. The Fighting Farce. not even In the cabinets of Eu- wire, this connected wltb an elaborate classes, notably farmers. Likewise tbe alarm bell system that aounds In tbe The most elaborate system ever de- Mels have been startled to And a Almost Psrfsct Transportation Faellb material need by tbe army ts as far as rope. two guard bouses. For Instance, It vised by the Ingenuity of man. used gaunt, limping Agure, covered by a ties. Secret Aerial Strength. powlble supplied by the farmer direct an not only for war sod destruction, but gray army greatcoat with no distinenterprising secret agent of France One of the most Intelligence. parts of Germany without doubt has the most were to try and steal as aa Intelligence clearing house for guishing marks, stalking along. Ac- the organization IsImportant up on the stathe Without doubt the most Important of aerial Aeet In tbe world. tion, If he came tba whole of the empire, la the Her companied by orderlies carrying camp transportation. Napoleon's question and cut by night central Eu- division of the general staff and The budget of the relchstag of 1908-190-9 the barbed wire, a series of man war machine. Conceived by Gentools and table, night glasses and ropean wars owed their success in through a upon whose Information and efforts allowed and provided for the bells would eral Klein tn the days of the Napole- electric torches, halting repeatedly, linmedately sound the building and maintenance of twelve general alarm. onic ware, added to and elaborated by hts men taking down In writing the dirigibles of the Zeppelin type. S' successive administrations, solely un-hort croaking sentence escaping be-dHaving passed through tbe elx far as the knowledge of the rest of the control of the ruling house, Us I tween tbe thin, compressed Ups, the strands of barbed wire a tall octagthe world Is concerned this is all the Heist of Metz' has prowled round, onal tower meets the eye. In this efficiency and perfect and smooth that sky navy Germany possesses. It working are due to the total absence measuring every foot of ground fifty Is a fact, though, that she has three tower are Installed two powerful of political machinations or prefer- miles east, west, north and south of times the number that elie officially searchlights as well as a complete ences. Ills beloved Met I. wireless outfit. All tbe Zeppelins carry acknowledges. The visible head of this vast organiBrains, ability and thorough scion wireless. Dy means of elaborate reThe dlrlblgle-ballootifle knowledge are the only passport centers In Ger- flectors It ie possible with the searchzation Is called Der Grouse General many are Ave, and they are situated at lights to flood the whole for entrance In the Grosser General Slab, with headquarters In Iierlln, pluce with vitally strategic points. There are two daylight In the middle of Stab, the general staff of the Rermoa Each army corp haa a Klelne GenTbui night. on the French border, one on the Dus-sla- ascensions empire. Vou will And blooded young eral Stab,' which sends Its most able can be made safely at any border, one on the Atlantic coast, hour of the twenty-four- . officers and gray-halregenerals pant officers to Iierlln. These officers and a centra! station near Iierlln. The active efficiency, experts tanking conjunction with the most able The three oblong sheds stand In a exact places are Strassburg. Frankfrom an ordinary mechanic to the high- elitists, engineers and architects fort on the Main, Posen, Wilhelms-hafe- n row, the middle being the largest, havest engineering expert, all working empire can produce, compose and Iierlln. This does not In- ing spaces for two complete dirigibles , harmoniously together with one end great general staff. The virtual head while 1 clude the marvelous station at Helgo- each. the other sheds house but one view, the acme of efficiency. Con- Is the German emperor. The actual , They are about 800 feet long. land In the North sea, this being a 2oO trolled and directed by tba war lord executive Is called Chef des Crossen feet broad and 120 feet Tbe In person through tha chief dea Gros-sen- 1 General Stabs." strategic point In relation to Great whole structure Itself can high. be shifted Drltaln. General Stabaat present GenNothing is known about this to about an Th Maker of War. angle of forty degrees, Helgoland station. None but those on eral Field Marshal von lleerlngen this worked There Is a small, dingy, unpretenon a plan similar to being official business are permitted within this Immense machine, the pulsing tious room In the General Stabs a thousand yards or it. ! shall tell the railroad engine turntable. The reabraia of a Aghtlng force of 4,500.000 son for it Is that with the .veering of where, at momenta of stress things concerning It men, la composed of from 180 to 200 and tension or . the wind the sheds are turned so that International complicaofficials. Besides these purely military posts the doors w tions. assemble five men his majesty, ill be there are a number of commercial sta- ly for tbe removalplacedtheadvantageousAt the peace of Tilsit, after the at the head of the table; to tbe right airship. tg tions necessary as depots of tbe regucrushing defeat of tha Frusslan armies the chef des Crossen General whole The and vast area the Stabs; layout lar transportation aerial lines that at Prussian Eylau and Friedland, to the left his minister of war; then of space show that It Is the governfor the bad Prussia and tba whole of the minister of convenience of the operate ment' Intention still further to Inrailways and the chief central Europe at his mercy. Con- of the naval staff. public. Like Germany's commercial You will notice crease the plant to steamers, the are however, they advice of his generals, es- the total absence of the ministers of trary controlled Let us consider one of these new and subsldzed by the government At pecially the succinct advice of his often Anance and diplomacy. When these a few hourg; notice they can be con- war monsters, the latest and most anheeded mentor, Talleyrand, com- Ave men meet the InAuence of diploverted and made use of for govern- powerful, the X 15. The latest Zeppepletely to disintegrate Prussia, Napo-bio- matic and Ananclal affairs has ceased. ment hla purposes. fondness for pretty They are there to act The scratchthrough Taking these trans- lins, charged with the newly discovlines Into women, let himself be tricked by Lou- ing of the portation consideration. It ered dioxygenous gas. giving these emperor's pen In that room Ib safe to state that ise of Prussia. by now Germany 8ky battleships triple lifting capacity; means war, the setting in motion of a could send Afty huge airships to war. I the Ierfectl8 of the Diesel motor. The Interesting historical story of Aghtlng force of 4,500,000 men. giving enormous horsepower percentthis Incident may be apropos here, In order to give the reader a Revolutionizing Discoveries. fairly age with light fuel consumption (Afty showing how tbe world's history can correct view of this mighty It may be a puzzle to Americans of these Diesel engines, their workbe changed by a kiss. At the peace tion I have to explain each organizaIn the face of disasters and acci- ings secret to the German group sepwhy, governconference In Tilsit Napoleon, on the arately. The whole rests on dents to these Zeppelins, Germany Is ment, are stored under system at the guard verge of disintegrating Prussia, met the question of mobilization, meaning A Gaunt, Limping Figure, Covered by a Gray Army Greatcoat, With No Dis-- spendin about $4,000,000 on her aerial big navy yards at Wilbelmshafen and the beautiful Queen Louise of Prussia. the ability to arm, fleet. Now we come to a very slgnlfl-can- Kiel, transport, clothe tlnguiahlng Marks, Stalking Along. ready to be Installed at the Through her pleadings and the Im- and feed a Aghtlng force of 4,500.000 I and know, point. break memwar in submarines and diricertain of print of a kies on her classic arm, men In the shortest possible time at great measure, if not wholly, to his the whole machine hinges, la the Intel- bers of the German general staff know gibles), have given the German type Prussia the to granted right any given point in either eastern or quickness of motion. This applies ligence department, really covering as well as trusted men in the aerial of aircraft an maintain a standing army of 12,000 w estern Europe. For let tt be importance undreamed clearly about tenfold In modern warfare. In many different flelds for Instance, corps, that there are two conditions of and unsuspected by the rest of tbe men. That In itBelf did not mean understood that the main actual armament the leading powers general science, especially point of the strategy, under which airships are operated In world. much, but it gave able and shrewd training of the German armies the of Europe are practically on a par. topography, ballistics, but mainly the Germany. One Is the ordinary more Guns on the Zeppelins. Prussian patriots the opportunity to readiness to launch the entire Aghtlng The personnel, as regards personal procuring of information, data, plans, or less which charsystem The circumvent and hoodwink Iionaparte's force like a thunderbolt to new any given courage, stamina, or whatever you maps, etc., kept more or less secret by acterizes the operation of all the pas- balloonsoperating sphere of the has 100 from to extended policy. to wish call is of the also. It, point other powers. In this division the senger lines now in service In the emfairly equal compass. Germany knows 1,400 kilometers. Secret trial trips of There is little difference in the in- brightest young officers and Beginnings of German Army. through past experience the advisabilgeneral pire. It is the system under which a fully equipped Zeppelin like X 15, Prussia has always been fortunate ity and necessity of conducting war dividual prowess of French, Russian, officials are found. The training and all the disasters that appear in the a crew of 24 men, six quick-firin- g In producing able men at the most in an enemys country. The German English and German soldiers. This Is knowledge required of the men in this occur. Airships that are carrying newspapers guns, seven tons of explosives, needed moment A man arose with army Is built for aggression. There well known to military experts. The Bervice are exacting to a degree. It used In the general army flights and have extended from Stettin, over the difference Is mainly a question of dis- requires in most cases the undivided maneuvers are a gift for military organization. He are four main groups: also run under the Baltic, over the Swedish coast, and had every province, district, town and cipline, technique attention often a life study to a sin- same system as the passenger preparedness. 1. Organization. dirigtbe Baltic and landing at In a Only country where all rail- gle subject. village in Prussia carefully scheduled 2. Transportation. ibles for a reason. with enough gaa, fuel Swinemunde, and and the roads, highways and men thereof put waterways, has been 3. Virtualization. It the unswerving policy of The other system Is an absolute se- and provisions left to keep aloft anwhere and on record. He selected the 12,000 men are post owned the Prueslan military authorities to telegraph 4. Intelligence. and controlled by the state Is it pos- know as much of the rest of the Euro- cret of the German general staff. It other 36 hours. The distance all told permitted Prussia under the Napoleis not used In the general maneuvers, covered on one of these trips was Each of these groups is, of course, sible to evolve and onic decree and drilled them. perfect a system pean countries as they know of their No subdivided Into numerous In speclflc caseB, and these al- 1,180 kilometers. only This fact speaks branches, of transportation such as is at the own. In the war of 1870-71- , sooner were these men drilled than German ways secretly. It has been which we shall go Into under each infor itself. The return to distance from proved of German the were disposal dismissed and another dividual head. they general staff. commanders down to the lieutenant be effective in eliminating 75 per cent Helgoland to London, or any midland 12.000 called In. Every mile of German railroads, es- leading a small detachment had accuFrom this point of the accidents which have character- towns In England, corresponds to the First comes organization. The Ger-ma- pecially the ones built within the last rate dates modern conscription the father information, charts and data of ized all of Germany's adventures in is of disarmy mileage covered on recent trips. three composed of which was General Stein and this twenty years, has been constructed every province In France, giving them and heavier-than-ai- r dirigibles maPicture the havoc a dozen such vulalso Inaugurated the birth of the war tinct parts the standing army, the mainly for strategical reasons. more accurate knowledge of a foreign chines. These statistics are known tures could create machine. In three years Prussia had reserves and Landwehr, or militia. attacking a city Ninety per cent of all the railway country than that country had of only among the German general staff like London or Paris. In attacking The standing army comprises 790,-00- 0 officials are 180.000 Five minutes men and 120.000 officers. officers and men. This body of after the signing of the mobilization large places the Zeppeline would rise reserves, quite a different proposition Exhaustive Knowledge of Enemies. Critics of the German dirigible who to a height of from 6,000 to 8,000 feet, from the 12,000 men Napoleon thought men is ready at an Instant. It is the orders by the emperor the whole of While undergoing instructions in rate the French aeroplane superior at which distance these huge cigar-shape-d he had ' to face on his retreat from reserves who need an elaborate sys- the railway system Is under direct the admiral stab in the out that the Zeppelins have tem of mobilization. .The reserves are military control. engines of death, 700 feet long, Moscow, and which played a decisive Specially trained Strasse 70 previous to Koniggratzer point my being sent three serious defects bulk and heavi- would appear the size of a football, factor In the overthrow of the dictator divided into two classes, Arst and sec- transportation and railway experts on on an English mission, a controversy ness of structure, inflammability of the and no bigger. I know that ond reserves. So is the Landwehr, the general staff take over the direcof Europe. Zeppelins f, . arose between my Instructor and my- lifting power the gas that floats them have successfully sailed aloft two levies sec-othe and first at an having wars 1864 the of of affairs. tion Through and 1866 self as to the distance between two and insufficiency of fuel carriage. In altitude of 10,000 feet. Picture them Aufgebot. to 1870, the Franoo-PrusBiawar, the From One Room. Operate Railways towns on the Lincolnshire coast. He other words, they cannot ship at that elevation, man on' reaching aboard war machine of Prussia was merged Every The same applies to the waterways pushed a button and requested the an- gas to etay In air a desirable enongh in warm, comfortableeverybody the of twenty-onof length age Into that of the German empire and may be called and quarters, ready highroads of the empire. A keen swering orderly to bring map 64 and time without coming down. The se- to drop explosives to the ground. fs a record (Of Increasing efforts, en- upon, to serve the colors. One In Ave will often wonder at the the officer in charge. observer cret devices of the German war office The X 15, sailing over London or tailing unbelievable hard work and a only is taken, as there ie more ma- broadness, solidness and excellent With the usual promptness both map have eliminated ail these objectionable terial than the could drop explosives down an& needs the of minutest country the Paris, details. compilation of the chaussees and and officer appeared. The officer, who features. They have overcome the create terrible havoc. They dont have fifth being selected for one of five state of repair The modern system of organization out of all proportion could not have been more than twenty-Av- e condition of bulk and heaviness country roads, of to aim. They simply dump overboard especially the mobilization schedules branches Infantry, cavalry, artillery, to the little traffic passing along. They years of age, discussel with me In structure by their government chem- Borne of the new explosive of the Geris the work of Helmut von Moltke, Genie corps or the navy. The time of are simply strategical arteries kept up fluent colloquial English the whole of ists devising the formula of a material man the Grosso Schweiger," the Great Si- service in the Infantry is two years; by the state for military purposes. government, this new chemical The this section of Lincolnshire. Not a that is lighter than aluminum, yet having the property of lent One, the strategist of tbe cam- in the cavalry three, in the artillery heads setting on fire the of transportation and rail- hummock, road, roadhouse, even to which .possesses all of that metals three, in the Gente corps two, and in that it and paign of 1871. bits, anything they sail on. way corps in Berlin sit before huge farmers residences and blacksmith density and which has also the flexthe navy three. . Its Present Head. Aeroplanes, bipianes, tables where monoplanes the whole shop, of which he did not have exact ibility of steel. Airships not among The real backbone and stiffening of and the other innumerable host of German railway system to its knowledge. H is curious (hat there Is a great the German of the the twelve that Germany officially ad- small craft so often army and navy are the quoted as a posminutest' detail Is shown in relief, and si Hilarity between she late Moltke and noncommissioned officers Subsequently, through careful In- mits are made of this material, its recruited the Zepvarious single buttois quiries and research my work bring- formula Is a government secret and' sible lleerlngen. They have the same aqui- from the rank and Ale. In fact, this by pressing are to tha pelin an can conduct overrated, endless according line features, tall, thin, dried-uor constant Franc chain into me they of contact would with th England s body, body of men is the mainstay of the ing give German military authorities. And they to any given point of the Vt )rss?ss It. trains I founds that thx I dells rs of the fshk taciturn disposition, even thrones in the German divisions various empire, espe- e this belief on vast and exhaustive whole ol England, France and Russia The olijec.Uqu A inflauiumh-lit- j u .rials in these m e 1 tw po-litlc- three-quarte- rs lcitirei ma-ehln- a ltula gas-mete- r. t. ('-circle- fl 1 1 f d Kt i n, 1 n n Ge-bau- 1 well-know- n able-bodie- u well-drille- ' , n n able-bodie- , e glass-covere- d counter-defense,.agaln- p thou-r.ind- - ' T Z, St. s.T1' |