Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-29
WAR WILL DRAW
55O,OOOFROMU. S.
Germany Has 100000 Reserv-
lists in This Country, Austria
and Servia 100000.

! In case of a general European war
more than half a million able-bodied
men would leave the United States to
enter service under their respective
flags Germany alone would call to
duty 250,00O reservists now residing in
the United States; Austria Hungary
would call back 100000 Servia has
claims on nearly 100000, while France
and Russia would also try to recall
many thousands of their subjects.
While enthusiasm is now running
high particularly among the Servian,
Austrian and Hungarian reservists
this will cool off before arrangements
can be made to transport the citizen
soldiers back to their native land.
Many will think twice before seyering
all the ties that bind them to this
country for the uncertain chances Of
bloody war.
The worst that can befall them if
they refuse TO go back is the loss of
their native citizenship, and there will
be many who will conclude that 1t is
better to be a live American than a
dead Austrian. For these reasons
there will be a big difference between
the number called back and the num-
Der that respond.
The problem of transporting the re-
servists across the ocean is already
occupying the attention of the for
eign governments. All steamers sail
ing under the Austrian or German
flag would be pressed into service.
Most of the foreign steamship lines
entering this port receive govern
ment subventions and are under OBJ
legation to hold their vessels at the
disposition of the foreign war de-
partments.
If a general war breaks out the
major portion of the big Atlantic
liners now sailing between American
and European ports will first be used
to carry home the reseryists. and will
then serve as troop ships, supply
boats, GOLFERS and scout cruisers.
Many of the officers of these vessels
are officers of the naval reserve, and
will be called upon to take command
of the reserve fleets which remain
in home waters for defensive pur-
poses.
The regulations governing the OBJ
legations of the reservists differ
among the several European coun-
tries. In general, however, they are
divided into first line and second
line The former are obliged to
respond to the first call to arms,
whereas the second line does not go
out until further call is issued.
In general a young man in the
twenties who has finished his term
of service, whether it be of one, two
or three years. is carried In the first
line" for a period of ten years, and
is then relegated to the second line"
After further period of years he be-
comes a member of what in Germany
is called the "Landsturm," the body
that is only called out in the last
emergency when the country Is being
invaded But while some reservists
are willing to give up their native
citizenship to escape war service,
thousands of others are willing to re-
| turn to their native land despite the
fact that their fatherland no longer
has any claim on them.
At the time of the F'ranco-Prussian
war thousands of COMMUNICATIONS
who had long been dropped from the
reserve rolls, reported back for duty
| and went through the war.