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IN 1914 THE WORLD FEARED THE MILITARISM OF KAISER WILHELM 11

The

WORLD'S GREATEST ARMY

-and it was beaten

WHEN Kaiser Wilhelm

began his war in 1914, the German Army was the most powerful fighting in- strument that any state had-ever-sent-to-battle.

Anyone who fought against that army and to-day look back on its quality, in men and weapons, its knowledge and trained skill in action, is inclined to wonder how on earth did

the we prevent "Jerries" from beating us?

Yet they did not beat us. In the end they were beaten, largely by the Inexorable pressure of opponents they men in spray- nover saw, hidden ships the width of the North Sea away, whose im- pregnable harbour was £t thousand miles beyond range 'of the German army's guns.

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WHEN Adolf began his war in 1930, his army was a for- midable instrument'; foolish to despise it. But lig strength ́relative to its opponents does not over-shadow the world, as the strength of the German Army did in 1914...

It is an army with modern weapons and transport; there- fore It has more fire-power and more mobility than any army could have twenty-five years ago.

But when the changes of this quarter-century are taken into account, Adolf's army looks third-rate, too hastily strung together, not up to the job.

The Germans in 1914, writes Captain Liddell Hart in his "History of the World War," alone realised what is to-day an axiom-that given highly-trained cadre of leaders, a military machine can be rapidly manufactured from short-term levies, like molten metal poured into a mould. The German mould was a long-service body of officers and N.C.O.'s who in, their standard of knowledge and skill had no equal on the Continent."

FOR forty years before 1914 the German Army had been admired by almost all progressive soldiers in Eu-

rope,

For two whole generations ita methods of training, its discipline and even its uniforms had been imitated by a score of other armies.

It was the first army to train its commanders in large-scalo peace-time manoeuvres; the first to have staff college; the first to adopt, the divisional organisa- tion that is the basis of all mo dern armles; the first to Institute a permanent Intelligence section and thus lay the basis for a mo. dern General Staff.

As-far-away-as-1992 the-Ero fessor of Military Art and His tory at the British Army's Staff College, Colonel Henderson, was writing: "That "the Prussian sys- tem should be. Imilated. naturally inevitable."

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WHEN the German armies

marched westward in August 1014, the French Intelligence reckoned that they would have: forty-five divisions opposed to the French armics.

Actually there were eighty threo." A surprise of such"mag- "nitudo 'is', xare in war. And ite -was-nchieved not by cliberate procautions of notrécy; but by n combination of extremely paini-

taking detailed work and by

boldness and originality.

The painstaking work was in the training of the troops.

In both armies, French and German, men served for two years or more, then went to the reserve.

Only a few of those reservists were needed to bring the "active divisions" up to strength at the beginning of a war-to fill gaps in units already formed, offered, equipped, ready for action.

Besides the "active divisions," both French and. Germans had

divisions," "roserve

made almost entirely of reservists.

The German training was good enough ----for these formations, minde up of men who were civilians in July, to be fit for battle, by the third week of August.

up

their "ordinary" army.

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THE Germans scored a see- ond surprise at the outbreak of war simply by the perfec- tion of their railway organi- sation.

It was known that they might sweep through Belgium.

The French plans for meeting this swcop now look ridiculous, as indeed they were.

Failure of these plans led to the long retreat in which the French left wing (the Brillsh expeditionary force) had to fall back for 130 miles or more, from Mons to beyond the Murne.

But how could the French have realised that the Germans would be able to bring one and a half million men over their mi ways to the frontier?

The German boldness was in using such men without further polishing-up. The French could not believe that this was possible, It is an immense tribute to the quality and precision of the Ger- man instructors, and

the "seriousness" of the Gotman army as a whole, that they were able to mobilise this mass of men "trained years before the war, and--way-organisation. put them into battle alongside

And if they had thought that possible, how could they have realised that a million of theac men, 64 divisions out of 83, would be concentrated in the armies sweeping through Belgium and Luxemburg?

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Such a concentration seemed Impossible, with ordinary methods of staff work and mil-

But it was carried out.

WILL THE LIGHTS

GO OUT?

Genevan Palace of the Nations,

THE $1,750,000

property of over fifty of them, equal in service to Versailles, weightily grandiose, bridally white, is a conundrum for the

Swiss..

Nor, so easily, could its enormous and controversial contents be sent a'wandering, as well its many hundred humans one day may be, clasping their skeleton files and documentation.

The League itself has been perfectly innocuous since Sep- tembur. It has not signified life in the faintest dégrée ́ as the map of Europe has been, forcibly re-drawn. Swallowed Czechoslovákia and Albania were members, Memel's right- ful status subjected it to League care, a condition, how ever, disrupted by Lithuania in 1923. Poland, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and Holland- contribute to its upkeep.

There has been one Council meeting at Genova, since Sep- tember, and so fleeting on affair was it that its. stars; Lord Halifax and M. Bonnet,

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yet

WHILE the monster mass, jyos incomplete. in 1934, Be Federal authorities requested that its white immensity should be equipped with costly steel shuilera and blue lights as anti-air-taid precautions.

It was sanctions time and sup pooing the "Transalpines" dki a bombing stun!? What a targeti Unmissable on Arluna height, hard by the guiding lake, as It retnsins to-day.

No

more happened until crash came

that last week of September. Scurry, flurry.

tive Street pakelis Place

Canton

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The Axis would quite certainly wreck the Palace of the Nations; inlght even try to occupy the Canton of Vaud because of it.

High time that Geneva were rid of the international brainbox that so exasperated

others.

Yet there was no time to plan. It was decided that did wor break, the League personnel was to re- move at once. to Fribourg, out of the way, back in the hills,

WHEN war did not come to Switzerland the Swiss had time to think anew and go further: if the

were Confederation

compelled thereafter to mobilise in protection of the national territory, the Len- gue personnel would have to move

might just as well have split altogether from Switzerland, leav

an cau minerale at the Corna- vin terminal and then carried on direct for their respective capitals.

NOTE has had to be taken. by the Secretariat of the withdrawnt of more states, including Spain and "HURROCY"-" "THE, Tondwing now seem

10" be outside the Lengue: United ! States, Japan, Germony, Haly

a nucleus care-taking staff only only, Such Wan the position until recently. It was then hinted that the Secretary-General might get busy, before the bombardment, with plans for evacuation. If my Information be correct, it was the- ther conveyed that, war or no war, Switzerland would be obliged and relieved. If. the Secretariat could urrunge to function elsewizorë-fai... an. Interim period until Europe settled down once more.

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