The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-11-17
German Ruler, by Aiding
Turkey, Hoped 10 Cow
World.
NATIONS LOAN OFFICERS
Teuton Tactics and Guns for
Sultan and Gallo Methods
for Balkan Allies.
BY FREDERICK WERNER.

special Cable 10 The Tribune.
BERLIN, Nov. l6.-The events 20
the Balkans have added another drop
OF gall and wormwood TO Germany's e
cup Of humiliation, which is now full
to oyerflowing. During the years which
preceded the conception and birth Of
The great German empire, whose great.
ness at first rested on it's military
strength, Bismarck sent out the arrnies
of Prussia, in his mind already destined
to become the nucleus OF the Inigbtiest
power in Europe, against weaker ma
tioua, Denmark first and Austria after
wards, to prepare them for fight and
to test Won Moltke's now tactics In
practice before provoking the great,
decisive combat with France.
Transformed into veterans by Lhs
practical experience they had gained in
1861 and 1866. the Prussian soldiers
easily defeated Napoleon y armies and
the German empire was born at Yer
sailles. Since those stirring times Ger
many has steadily sacrificed millions
TO improve its armies and maintain the
most formidable fighting organizations
the world hes ever seen, but at the
same time it has been careful not to
use them and has left it to tho other
people TO test the new tactics which
the military genius Of German Officers
invented. 1t was less risky to do so.
and German officers were sent out all
over the world to train and drill the
armies Of nations likely to be involved
In war.
No country in the world has taken
more advantage OF Germany's willing
ness 10 lend her army officers as army
instructors than Turkey. In no coun-
try have German tactics boon more
carefully drilled into the brains of of
fIcers and men. nor German ideas car
red out to the smallest detail in the
construction of forts and laying cut Of
lines of defense than in Turkey. No
country has more faithfully bought all
the guns that German gun factories
could spare.
For years German military mon and
diplomats have foreSeen the war which
is now raging and have supplied Tur-
key with detailed plan OF mobilizs-
ton and attack, Whenever it hap
pened to come, this was to prove TO all
the world the undeniable supremacy Of
German military methods, tactics, ideas
and war material Without the cost OF
of German money great war WIS to
strike terror into the hearts of all
Frenchmen, smarting under the m emory
of the loss of AlsaceLorraine and show
them by an object lesson what they
might expect If they dared enter into
a fight with the armies Of the kaiser.
The French took up the silent chal-
lenge and the country's most brllians
general visited King Ferdinand of Bull
hn hp% 10.
fields with him and set his brain TO
work TO outline n plan Of campaign TO
be pitted against that Of Field Marshal
Won der Goltz, while the great French
gun factories of Schneider Creuznot
and Schneider strained every
nerve to turn out guns superior to those
of the great German Krupp. These
French guns were supplied to tho Bal
kan states at the lowest possible prices.
The hour OF the practical test came
and Germany lost. The war plans de
vised by German military geniue, the
forts built by German military eDgj
neers the tactics invented by German
strategjsts, the guns constructed by
GermaDy's "Kanon Loenig" Krupp>
all have been weighed in the balance
and been found lighter than those OF
tho arch-enemy across the Vosgea.
The defeat cannot be concealed, all
the world knows it, and the German
Socialists, the i1nplacable foes Of the
militarism, which they consider the
curse Of their country, are enjoying an
hour of triumph, and losing no oppor.
tunity to tell the millions of readers OF
their papers, that the last prop has
been Knocked away from under the
military dictators who have hitherto
ruled the domestic politics.
The Balkan war has given n death
blow to German militarism, and robbed
it Of its prestige. which was it's strong
est weapon, And once tho fear of tbs
monster has disappeared from tho minds
of the Germans, they will no longer per
init themselves TO be dominated by it.
This is why the war may mark the be-
of new social era In Ger
many, which it will surely do. unless
the smaller conflict is followed by
greater European one in which Ger
many becomes involved