The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-05-04
ARMY IN GERMANY
SEEMS UNPOPULAR
kaiser's Lawmakers Illumi-
nate Some Public Sentiment
During ReicEstag Debate.
FRANCE HELD IN ENVY
Eagerness Of French Youth to
Serve as Soldiers Vexes
, the Germans.
By FREDERICK WERNER.
.ial Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune
BERLIN, May st has been a
source of great annoyance to Germans
to discover how many members Of the
French chamber of deputies have shown
as much knowledge of military matters
as if they were army officers or mill
tary experts.
People here realize very we'll that
this proves. first that military service
in France must leave a deeper impress
sion on the brains of the privates than
it does in Germany. and secondly, that
the interest in military matters must
be much greater in France, where the
army is more popular than IN Germany.
where il is hated So strong has this
impression become here that when the
chancellor of the empire made his great
military speech he was forced to ad-
nit that Germans must count on
:" good, very good French army. -
Three Pointed Lessons.
The debate In the German reichstag
has shown first how unpopular are the
army and the army officers with the
people, how far the latter are from
realizing that great reforms are neces.
Ignorant arc the members OF the
simplest military matters.
ONLY one member was able TO meet
the minister of war on equal terms ana
prove how many are the serious SNORT
comings of the German army, when
neither money nor larger NUMBER Oh
recruits will improve or make away
| with. =,
The eaperness with which the Young
! mon of France have flocked to the re-
cruitine Offices to serve as volunteers
| even before the government s three
| years service bill passed into
| law has also created sensation
| i'm this country, where young men re-
sort to all kinds of tricks. often mutt
latinu themselves. to escape min0a,y
service. with It's mean tortures OF the
men bv non commissioned and sunerior
officers and months OF useless and de-
grading parade service.
War Minister Scored.
IN the other side it must be admit-
+od tbat DIR. Mueller Meiningen. the
only member Of the reichstag who spoke
with embarrassing authority on army
matters, did not spare the munster ..
war when he told him such anuo rug
truths as that an ideal army nus, mus ard
IFS roots in the masses OF the people anu
fiat never must it's soldiers be made 10
nerform menial service to otticers, VINO
tbus escape the necessity OF paying
waoes 70 regular servants or 40 the
work themselves if they could not al
ford paying wages. -. l
But the thrust which struck none
with more force than any Of the others
was this that Germany would never
have an ideal army as long as the MN
;ster of war permitted men TO remain IN
Office who had been found guilty OF the
most atrocious abuses Of privates. ana
only sentenced the perpetrators to ndlc-
ulously mild penalties which were orten
vacations rather than Punishments'
Germany. he said, could do 1othlne pei.
fer than use France as a model, and one
NAV imagine how deeply this insult was
felt by all German army officers from
the minister of war to the youngest
lieutenant
Lorraine Is Restless.
The people of AlsaceLorraine.. who
are still as French as they were forty
three years ago, are causing tne gov
ernment considerable annoyance oy per
sistinp in the refusal to discover the
enormous advantages of being German
Subjects instead Of French citizens and
many councils are held as to, how to
lead them onto the straight and narrow
natb that leads away from the old al
iepiance into the German heaven.
The present inspector general or !he
the Sixteenth army CoiPo' WA
army. who lately was in command or
yitz, when leaving Metz said in a
speech. s'With the people Of Lorraine
I am far from satisfied and cannot but
regret that recent celebrations like the
recent Noisseviller festival Of the So
ciety Francaise have been allowed to
take place. The chief blame for this
rests on the civil administration. which
has shown almost criminal slackness.
have informed the kaiser that no sec
ond Noisseviller festival must take
place.
In conformance with the present en-
deayors of the government to maintain
friendly relations with France, Secre-
tary Of State Zorn Won Bulnch in tho
Prussian Iandtag sharply criticised the
inspector general Of the army for his
utterances and asserted that the prov
inces were governed by the civil author
tiles and that military officials had abso
lutely no right to interfere or criticise
the administration or appeal to the kai
ser to get any share in it, which would
only tend to increase the hatred Of Ger
many among the French population.
Bride SO, Husband 33,
Special Cable to The Tribune.
LONDON May AT the age or IS.