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Show uu A NURSE'S OPINION OF THE WAR. Constance Droxel, a Red Cross nurso now in Salt Lake, relating her experiences in Europe, says: "I was In attendance at the women's wom-en's peace conference at The Hague and afterward visited Germany and France, In Germany everyone Is wildly enthusiastic about the war. Every person in Germany is organized organ-ized for the war. The German bread cards indicate the amount of bread one is permitted to eat. The Gor-mans Gor-mans are getting thinner on their war diet and much better looking. They are not nearly so fat as before the war. "In my opinion Germany is going to win. I did not think so until after I had Yisited Germany and saw the marvelous war machine In operation. France is trying very hard to win and England isn't trying at all. Germany Ger-many is making everything she needs and spending all of the money the war is costing right among her own people, while the allies arc shipping their money to America for war supplies." sup-plies." Thero arc two striking statements in Miss Drexel's Interview. One is that Germany will win owing to the marvelous war machine and the other that England has failed to respond to the call to arms. At the opening of the war, the world was amazed at Germany's preparedness. pre-paredness. An American girl, now visiting in Ogdcn, who was In Berlin at tho end of July, last year, says tho mobilization of the German army was a wonderful sight. Within three hours after word had been roceWed that war had been declared, thousands thou-sands of soldiers wero inarching to the railway stations to entrain. This illustrates how thoroughly Germany had worked out the details of Its military mili-tary efficiency. A republic cannot accomplish what an omplro like Germany Ger-many can attain In military preparedness, prepared-ness, because there is not tho centralized central-ized authority to enforce a rigid discipline dis-cipline and work out over a lone nori- . od of years a plan of organization. i The German government set about its military problems In much the same manner as an engineer would prepare to build a Panama canal. Every detail de-tail was given consideration and experts ex-perts wero assigned to carrying out the general scheme of offensive and defensive strength. Getting rcady for war was made a business. There was nothing haphazard all was order or-der and system. Miss Drexel's comment that "Eng- land isn't trying at all," is further proof that the people of Great Britain have failed to understand that this Is a war In which England's vory existence exist-ence as a first class nation is Involved. In-volved. The Red Cross nurse, we take it, had been Informed that enlistments enlist-ments In England were disappointing, and, If they have been, then the allies al-lies are In danger of being defeated, although . the talk of peace which emanates from Germany indicates that the Germans are feeling the strain of the war and not any too confident of final success. |