Show cikan amr ill strongest safeguard guArd Is the of th common clacku godf magazine the surest hood of fellowship is that ot having fought together the same force bag produced the same results in france and italy for five centuries italy bag had a common language and literature without a nation five or air years of a national army hava sufficed to effect its union before our eyes france too had no real unity till the day w ben Proven cals and not man a alsatians and Bre otona assembled in the same under the same standards formed the french it is andeen the recollection ol lection of the united french army in M orada opinion makes one of the reasons ft hy alsace should belong to france and not to germany similarly in germany the army ha the greatest effect in keeping up the idea of a common nationality no other imperial institution has the baime influence the merest suggestion of the ol 01 war is enough to silence factions in germany bavarians Bava rians and gers forgetting their grudges rush forward to stand der to Bh with the hated under the national banner there are none but germans obeying a common discipline discipline is almost a byword in france where foolishly enough it is cited or the depreciation ol 01 the german baldier Bol dier lie ia a formidable adversary ver sary no doubt but it ii no credit to him he does not fight because he is naturally brave or patriotic but simply because his all icer tells him to and he dare not disobey alio llio whole army is a mere an eunicine of war a very terrible and dangerous one but only formidable an iron dad ir a in lorm and tailing aa liello individual part in anything aa it does no one dreaka of lie gallantry fal lantry of a torpedo or the heroism 0 a of armor plating and it is equally ad burd to apply each terena to the derman army which is just aa mechanical as a contrivance as any other there in an element of truth in this view fortunately for himself the herman is usually quite content to feel that he is the only one of alie wheela of a great aa he knows eliat it is theae n heels that the whole abiog go but M grad takes a very different view of the german discipline to him it goeins the very incarnation of all soldierly qualities alie tried discipline of the german army petg in the hindi of tta leaders docile and sure instrument on which they can absolutely rely the troops of other countries may have more dash more lire a more impetuous at patk tatk hy temperament and education the german soulier submits himself to a obedience which ia all the more valuable a quality in an arav ia also excellently odi and very cetroni in number obedience and t for authority aliat a security they offer for tran quilty at homo and whit an advantage iu war |