The Yale expositor., 1914-10-22
Revelations of the Kaiser's
Personal Spy
By Dr. Armgaard Karl GraUes
Who, for Number of Years Prior to His Arrest and
Betrayal in England in 1912, Emperor
Williams Most Trusted Personal Spy

By DR.. Armgaard Karl GraUes

incessant chess player, Heeringen
using every one Of his spare moments
to play with lead soldiers. He is re-
puted to have an army of 10000 lead
soldiers with which he plays the mo-
ment he opens his eyes-much in the
same manner as Moltke, who used to
request his chessboard the first thing
in the morning. In military circles
Heeringen is looked upon with the
same respect and accredited with
quite as much strategical knowledge
as Moltke was.
II is a significant fact that, when
ever there has been any tension in
Europe, especially between Germany
and France, General Won Heeringen or
his comrade in arms, General Won HUI
sen-Haeseler-also a great strategisf
and an iron ciplinarian-immedi-
ately has taken command of Metz, the
most important base and military post
in the emperors domain.
There is no man alive who knows
one-half as much about the strategical
position of Metz and the surrounding
country as General Won Heeringen.
Often on stormy, bitter cold winter
nights, sentries on outposts stationed
at and guarding the approaches OF
Metz have been startled to find a
gaunt, limping figure, covered by a
gray army greatcoat with no distin-
gushing marks, stalking along. Ac-
companied by orderlies carrying camp
stools and table, night glasses and
electric torches, hating repeatedly.
his men taking down in writing the
short, croaking sentences escaping be-
tween the thin, compressed lips, the
"Geist OF Metz" has prowled round,
measuring every foot of ground fifty
miles east, west, north and south of
his beloved Metz.
The visible head of this vast organi-
zation is called Der Crosse General
Stab, with headquarters in Berlin.
Each army corps has a "Kleine Gen
eral Stab" which sends its most able
officers TO Berlin. These officers, in
conjunction with the most able sci
entists, engineers and architects the
empire can produce, compose the
great general staff. The virtual head
is the German emperor The actual
executive is called "Chef des Grossen
General Slabs"
The Maker of War;
There is a small, dingy, unpreten-
tious room in the General Slabs Ge-
baude where, at moments of stress
and tension or international complica-
tons, assemble five men-his majesty,
at the head of the table; to the right
the chef des Grossen General Slabs;
to the left his minister of war. then
the minister of railways and the chief
of the naval staff. You will notice
the total absence of the ministers of
finance and diplomacy. When these
five men meet the influence of diplo-
matte and financial affairs has ceased.
They are there to act. The scratch
ing of the emperor's pen in that room
means war; the setting in motion of a
fighting force of 100000 men.
In order to give the reader fairly
correct view of this mighty organiza-
ton have to explain each group sep
arately. The whole system rests on
the question of mobilization, meaning
the ability to arm, transport, clothe
and feed a fighting force of 100000
men in the shortest possible time at
any given point in either eastern or
western Europe. For let il be clearly
understood that the main point of the
training of the German armies is the
readiness to launch the entire fighting
force like a thunderbolt to any given
point of the compass. Germany knows
through past experience the advisable
ity and necessity of conducting war
in an enemy's country. The German
army is built for aggression. There
are four main groups:
1. Organization.
2. Transportation.
3. LIBERALIZATION.
4. Intelligence.
Each of these groups is, OF course,
subdivided into numerous branches,
which we shall go into under each in
dividual head.
First comes organization. The Ger
man army is composed OF three dis
tinct parts-the standing army, the
reserves and Landwehr, or militia.
The standing army comprises $780,
900 officers and men. This body OF
men is ready at an instant II is the
reserves who need an elaborate sys-
tenn of mobilization. The reserves are
divided into two classes, first and Sec
ond reserves. So is the Landwehr,
having two levies-the first and Sec
on Aufgebot.
Every able-bodied man on reaching
the age of twenty-one may be called
upon to serve the colors. One in five
only is taken, as there is more ma
terial than the country needs-the
fifth being selected for one OF five
branches-infantry. cavalry, artillery,
Genie corps or the navy. The time OF
service in the infantry is two years;
| in the cavalry three, in the artillery