The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-15
FRANCE FOR PEACE,
BUT READY FOR WAR
Republic Thinks She Is Able
TO Take Care of Herself
in Emergency.
ARMY IN FINE SHAPE
Navy Also IS Being Brought
TO High State of
Efficiency.
ARMY in FINE SHAPE
BY PAUL VILLIERS.

Special Cable TO The Tribune.
PARIS. oct. ii.-Whateyer may 10
the result or the present unrest IN Eu-
rope. France IS confident that she will
be able 10 play her part with credit. and
not only protect her own possessions but
also be In a position 10 strengthen her
self when the nnal settlement comes. No
European country. not even England. Is
In better position financially 20 meet ,ha
enormous expenses cntnilcd BY modern
war. Tho French army Is In better
shape and more effective than IL has
been at any time since the Enpoleonic
era and the navy IS being brought up
to a point where II will be able 20 meet
the modern test.
With all this, France IS for peace. Shs
viii do all she can do hooorsbly 10 re-
store peace and prevent any further out
break. but she VIII do whatever 80 does
with the full conviction that sho Is pre-
pared for war II u must come.
The French idea is well summed UP in
. work entitled la France victor1euse
dams la Guerre de Demain,'' by Colonel
third bureau OF the general stan France,
he says, is pacific country: but ehe will
never submit 20 humiliation. Indeed. sho
can carry her head higher than her ad-
ycrsarict seem 10 Imagine.
| From the strategical point OF vlev hs
continues: Even II admit the most IN
/ favorable conditions for ourselves. Va
shall have the superiority over our an
! tagonlst From The moral point OF view
| d few energetic measures at the begin
ming % tho mobilization will suffice 10
restore 10 the army the provcss which
has made Of the French the first soldiers
| in the world
! Foresees Victory.
| After ~numenting various reasons for
his belief that the French would be vic
torious In war with Geramny. Colonel
| siN successive chances OF repeling our
adversary. and not a single one OF being
beaten"
would be concentrates and ready for ac-
| ton on the twenty-Grth day. 20 the Ger
mans. who would have sent all their
| twentieth dag have 20 divert some 10
| their Polish frontier II they would not ses
\ their territory oveTrun. Taking into 1c-
! count the possibility OF war with Austria
and Roumauia as well ss Germany. Rus
! sia originally thought OF dispntching her
| army corps individually 10 the frontier
with a View TO prompt action. Ot late;
| however this plan has been modified. ana
! her twenty-scven army corps VIII Dc
I formed into five armies, ready 10 assume
The offensive between the eighteenth aud
twenty NTH day. Thus the wilma army.
! with its four army corps. wiil be anlc
To enter Eastern Prussia on or about tho
! twentieth day. The warsaw army. Win
| its fivc army corps. VIII arrive on Tho
| frontier In the direction OF Berlin. on the
! thirteenth day. and VIII be followed al au
interval OF four or five days by dc -.
I corps Thus. by the tnirty-nfth dar
/ Germany viii have been invaded by ihlr-
teen army corps or. indeed By twenty at
| least II Austria has held aloof.'
| As will have been perceived. Russia VIII
not be OF any help at the outset. and
I France VIII have to bear the whole
brunt OF the attack single-handcd. But
| from the twentieth day Russia VIII In
| tervone. and Germany VIII be confronted
by a foe on the east wel as on the
| west Then France VIII assume the Of
( fcnsiye. with. as Colonel Boucher predicts.
certain success. The possibilities % Italy
;oin!ng In tho war y not foresecn by the
writer. who holds the general opinion
that she viii remain neutral. Al any
rate the protection OF Tie southeastern
/ frontier will be left 10 the Alpine bat
talions reinforced by reserves and ter.
rftorial troops and this arrangement VIII
free the fourteenth and hfteenth army
| corps FOR service on the Moselle. As for
the Pyrcnneesn frontier. IL viii also b
! guarded by roservists and territoFisls-
I Although he Is 50 sargunc. the author
does not blink the fact that checks may
occur at tho start. but he shows how tho
! defense can be continued In spite of SONS
reverscs which. Rs he argues. can nave
no effect on the final result.