The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-17
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Won uol,ke's Contempt for French
A., ,,,orost,np letter appears in the Salut
p,,hIio nf LYONS. relative to the instruction
FaIo aS prnsS|an " and French officers are respec-
t,uaIu obIiged to possess. The writer says:
tsL uMnIahnn is supposed to have adopted tactics
wbich are not new, namely, to act above oil
with his artillery, said to be formidable, and to
snars his men as much as possible. Napoleon
whom General seTse ae Mosse 4ely tae pupil lph
arae' arst ,magined the great concentration OF
n.so ,roona Inv hv rapid marches. M. de Moltlle, his
nUupt Sauoppnt - Tadn1Irer. has always manifested the
nraotaSt contempt for our strategy. re
s sEneTnher having heard quoted some OF his
Verv words addressed to 2 French off.
Ger on a mission TO Berlin: DO not
talk To me Of your military education
Africa f. you ySeter navI When ayoar yoa beeome Saee
General. YOU will be glad of 1t, The war you
ssue heen carving on for forty, years against
tha rebs 10 n eaerinerie of an Inferior order.
Me,er NJ. anv skjlfal marches, no feints, no coun
termarches. rarely any surprises. With that
sehool YOU will do nothing more than form
other schools like 1t. The hrst great war VIII
demonstrate your inemclelcyi unu mgte noI
in the nresence of q man OF your merit, sir,
shomId not hesitate to laugh at your ignorance
of o the trade to which you devote yourselves.
amnnG non yon-do not deny it--a pioneer ls al
moot ridiculous person, and IN general Inc
Tor,,,no man is one of mean intelligence.
Here. on the contrary. the most conscientious
studies are in the order OF the Gay, anu tne
lowest captain knows as mucn as yoir sIan
Officers who are so brilliant in the ballroom.
Have vou even a superficial snattering of the
elements OF the military art on leaving. your
snecioI school . Come now,' continued
General de Mcitke, taking the other by
,he hand. Il wager that you do not
know what is the most valuable piece OF fur
nitnre for the chamber OF an officer IN garri-
SON. Come with me- So saying, me ola
Prussian led his interlocrtor into small eeei,
chandler snited to a sua4ieulenant, q nia, s.ha.i
bed without curtains, three straw chairs,
shelves of books from the floor to the roof,
and in the middle OF the room black wooden
board on .an easel, the ground streWed Win
naorsels OF chalk. 1T Is with this that we beat
our adversares every morning, mnrmured
the old tacticlan, whe was destined to give al
terward 80 severe a1esson TO General Fros-
sard. the professor of the Prince Imperial:
.And for drawings, here Is all we want, and
M. de Moltke exhibited some geographical
maps. What singular conversation, when
one thinks that 1t took place In March, In 1870,
for j copy it literally from letter dated the
| Dist of that month. What may we not have to
say about the lessons to be derived from II
4 We shall profit by them at a later period"
Composition Of the Hosts-Their Man
4 ncr OF Fighting.
4 From the London Times August 3ol
/ Something remains TO be said q the compo-
-sition of the rival armies and OF their manner
i of fighting. Man for man, the average French
z1>lIa, t. rr1lf
1 There are tall, strapping fellows from several
] distrlctsin both countries-Brade denburgers and
\ PomeranIans on one side, and Eormans and
j Auvergnats on the other. These may be set
i the one against the other. But with their
| physical force the equality of the two armies
ends Beyond doubt the German, and espe-
cially the Prussan soldier, Is far more intelli-
gent than his French antagonist Some people
| have been taught to laugh at the pedantry of
PrussIan military education. They were race
of bookworme, and the 'dashn Of the French
:. would tread these worms into the dust. But
this nation of bookworns has brought into the
field, for the first time, perhaps, In military
history, an educated soldier, whose deliberate
valoris perfected by the intelligence with
which he avails himself, not only Of every
coign of vantage In the field, but also Of
those improved weapons OF which only an in
telUgent soldier can make full use. Thus 1t
has been that, though, perhaps, the chassepot
is better arm than the needle-gun. the
French infantry have shown. that It Is In their
hands no better than the weapon OF their ad-
versaries. The battle must be long indeed out
of which the Prussian soldier will not bring
! many of his sixty rounds Of ball-cartridge.
| About forty Is the most they are ever expected
to eXpend. But in the recent contests the
French have, over and over again, fallen short
| OF ammunition at most critical moments.
| though they carry eighty rounds, the rea-
son being that they fire away their amm,l-
milton at absurd distances, while the Prls-
slams are taught TO husband 1t for shorter
distances. and never, If possible, to
indeed, every bullet may be said TO have
its billet, and for the accuracy Of their aim let
those seven hundred and eighty-one French
! corpses answer which were taken out of their
riae-pits at Pange, all shot through the head.
Again, it may be said, that the present cam
paign. SO tar as 1t has gone. has avenged the
old classical system OF warfare against that
| of corps dslite which had sprung up among
the French, owing TO their Algerian cam
paigns. The French line has been neglected
for these favored bodies, while the German
forces are remarkable for great uniformity OF
efficiency all through the army. They are,
therefore, able to act with much greater ef-
feet in masses, and their method of warfare is
| neither ueSullOry uOT epaSluouict UuL regular
and overwhelming In Its advance, as though
the whole army were one great machine act
Ing in perfect order As =or the officers, we
are 10th to think that the French have
degenerated in this respect, but if
the stories be true which are told
Of French officers, both high and low,
following their regiments, not on foot
| foot Or On horseback, but In carriages. much in
the style Of Louis XIV, we think the discipline
OF the French army must be sadly defective,
| and that luxury has invaded their ranks in
| deplorable degree. The remainder of the CAM
paign will be watched with something more
| than interest. The Prussians now stand on
the classic ground so we'll defended by the
great Napoleon in 1914, and moistened almost
every inch of It with the bravest blood of
| France. So long IS the honor OF nation Is
safe, nothing Is lost: but 1t IS full time that the
| government should come TO the rescue Of the
nation. or the nation to the rescue Of the gov
ernment. Before all things let there be real
| government in France, that the soldiers NAV
know for whom they are lighting. The battle
has hitherto gone against france, yet it is not
so far on in The Gay that France may not re-
trievr her fortunes; but to do this her gene
rails must show more generalshp her popula-
ton more determination, and the Emperor
more o. The energy and ublcu!!v O! his I'M
Gle.
Execution of 4 Spy.
Writing from Paris under date OF August -.
the correspondent: of the Standard says: Prus-
| sian blood has been drawn for the tlrst time
since the declaration OF war within the e,ce ne
of Paris. Charles Harth. found guilty OF haT.
;nr vIs,tad France for the purpose of snyinrr