Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1890-04-12
WHAT TREMENDOUS PREPARATIONS
Mere Absut the Coming Wss n Europe
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The day that war ID declared be.
tween France and Germany what will
happsnf At first there will be, oil
course, the general mobilization &C
Sording To the new method which the
German STAFF has recently adopted.
On the German side that mobilization
will be effected In short time Ia
less than seven days . little over L.
400, 900 men will be concentrated on
the frontier at the points fixed by the
general staff. The cars arc ready and
IN, sos, for the railroads was laid In
log ago.
f6uf IL I'VE days after the Gyst ad.
vance 600, OU men will form the sec.
Snd line, Finally there will be the
iandstrpm with about 1.i00.000 On the
first call. All these troops are thor
oughly drilled and armed with repeat
ing rifles. The. artillery and cavalry
have Ill that Is necessary for under
taking campaign. One can imagine,
Therefore, what the next war will be.
It will be frightfui ahd fnereiless. II
10 quite possible that the victors Vim bs
iust as much exhausted and decimated
- the. conquered. Certainly the
Franco-gsfman war Of 1870 will look
like child's play Compared with the
coming struggle, which everybody =
talking about but which nobody bul
q mailman would desire.
We do not believe there is sensible
man In all Germany who does not pray
for 4 long peace, because the next war,
even IL II should result In 4 victory fol-
Germany, must make more widows aud
orphans than al the wsrs Of Europe
during the last hundred years:
Under the title of How Shall W.
Attack In the Coming Warp q PAM
phlet has recently appeared In Berlin,
supposed to be the work Of staff OF.
ficer. II treats Of the present con.
ditions Of attack BY infantry. Ia view
Of all the changes Of tactics made
necessary by the repeating rife and
the smokeless powder. we can nc
longer count" says the writer, upon
our superiority in numbers and In
armament. There Is only one su.
periority Of tactics, and our tactics
must be adapted to the conditions ol
modern arms. Now, these conditions
have changed with the enemy, and We
must soon do like him. II Is high
time to study the effects which tlfs new
arms must have upon the tactics Of bat
tie. upon the way to lead troops into
action. IN future all infantry which Il
not completely hors de- combat is In
vulnerable in front. The success Of ar
attack according to the old principles
of warfare must prove an exception
and q repulse the rule. This does moi
mean that position cannot In future
be carried; every position can b car
ried, but not In front.
'In the next war the German In
fantry cannot count. as in '70-'7l, up
on the support Of the artillery. for the
enemy has made as much progress In
artillery as Germany. II not more, and,
considering the range Of the present
rifles. the artillery must keep Itself al
. greater distance than it did in year.
past, and leave the battle to be decided
by the infantry. The advantage Of
superiority Of individual firing also
tends to decline at long range, and,
above all. with weapons so easily han.
died Is the modern small bore"
The pamphlet concludes whit the a..
sertion that while the offensive Is still
the best form Of combat, and the one
TO be recommended, it must fail en-.
tirely If the enemy is not enveloped by
turning movements by which he car
be placed under converging fires.