Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-21
GERMAN VICTORY
DUE TO M|L|TARISM
Result Shows What Training.
Backed by Patriotism, Can
Accomplish.
ONE is EXPRESSION OF OTHER
DR.. Bernhard Dernburg, Now in
Washington, Enthusiastic
Over Recent Successes.
ONE is EXPRESSION OF OTHER
mY LANES cREELMAN.

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as he talked of the German naval raid
on the English coast. and the smash
I ing victory of German arms over the
! Russians.
, a great thick bulk of a man is the
/ former German Colonial, Minister
broad -shouldered deep -chested. with a
/ massive head and strong face, mantled
! with thick shag of grizzly beard.
/ There is something In the rough.
! plain outline of the man that at first
/ suggests phlegmatic slowness. but as
! ne spoke OF the German victory to-
DAY he lifted his great head high. his
( big. fiat teeth showed under the mus
! tache and his countenance shone with
| patriotic enthusiasm and confidence.
The great victory OF Germany in
F, Poland. Il victory so great that perhaps
| the general public cannot yet appre-
/ ciate its full weight. shows that mere
! numbers, mere military masses, can
not insure success In this war" he
! said.
| The tremendous victory which Ger
/ man troops have won in the eastern
| held OF war is due TO militarism,
! backed by German love of country"
MILITARISM SIMPLY
EXPRESSION OF PATRIOTISM
/ The heavy figure paced the room
| Slowly and the powerful hands were
| locked behind the back, head down and
brows close knit
Indeed" he said, lit is impossible
( to separate German militarism from
German patriotism. One is simply the
! expression of the other. and the world
! has In this great victory an illustra-
| ton OF what German militarism means
that is. the organized strength and
| patriotism Of the German people to
serve as defense for their Father
land which practically every German
| soldier considers a privilege rather
| than mere duty.
! For instance, no criminal is per-
{ mitted TO serve in the German army
to-day in spite of the extreme emer-
! gcncy created by this war This is
particularly understandable illustra-
I ton of how the German nation regards
| the right to fight for Germany as .
/ privilege rather than a mere obliga-
! tIon.
The tremendous patriotism animal
ing the so-calied miiitarism of Ger
! many is-afso shown i'm the fact that,
more than 100000 Germans exempted
by law from military service at the
/ present time have gladly, and in their
own free will. reported to the colors
and taken up arms in defense OF their
country. and 1T must not be forgotten
! that moro than aO.O10 OF these volun-
teers come from Alsace Lorraine"
HEAvINEsS Is GONE,
| HE Is ALL ENTHUSIASM
1 DR.. Dernburg stopped pacing the
room and folded his arms over his
| powerful chest. His heavy face was
| lit up by the thought that possessed
| him. The heaviness was gone: he was
all enthusiasm
/ Masses cannot do it," he said at
/ the beginning of the war we were told
that as soon as the Russian army was
perfectly mobilized. an army which
would number from 100000 to IT,
/ 100000 men. it would by sheer weight
/ OF numbers break down whatever
! forces Germany. hghting on two from
| tiers. could oppose. and would rush on
] irresistibly to Berlin, where they were
! to be not later than Christmas
Look at the situation to-day. There
VIII ba quite a number OF Russians
serving as unwilling guests In Ger
| many AT Christmas time, no less than
I 10000 unwounded prisoners having
been taken so far in the Poland cam
/ pa!gn.
| This rush upon the German eastern
| lines OF the greatest armed force ever
| assembled In human history" he said,
has not only been checked. but it is
a fact that the Russian army is actually
| shattered and in rout at the present
! time.
This greatest crushing German vic
! tory, as | have said, shows what Ger
man training, backed by German pa
/ triotism. means.
! NO CAUSE To INVOKE
! INTISfIII{sENH PATRIOTISM
Surely ii must be plain that Russia
! has no cause that can evoke an intel
| iigent patriotism since She is merely
| a brutal aggressor.
| "It must he remembered that at the
! present time neither Germany nor Rus
| sin Is fighting In cause of its own
Russia started out to support Ser
| via, merely to serve her scheme Of
brutal aggression against AUSTRIA
/ which she was attacking through Ser
via. which Is mere finger on the
! greedy Russian hand.
! 1t must he plain that Germany mad
TO support Austria as a matter OF her
! own national defense. for with Aus
tria crushed Russia would have thrown
her armed strength halfway around
| the German empire.
"All Americans who live and sup
| nor. the Monroe Doctrine will be. per-
! haps. able to understand the meaning
of this. for it would be i'm many senses
the same thing If the United States
| should undertake n war with Euro
pean power in support of the political
! and territorial independence of Mex
leo. which. according to American poll
! icy. would be, on the part of the United
| States. war of self-defense
i "It must not be forgotten that the
| powers now at war with Germany at
! tempted to persuade the Germans to
abandon Austria IN her days OF extre-
nifty in spite of an old and solemn de-
| fensive alliance. which was made for
! this very emergency.
FIGIITINC: FOR VERY
LIFE OF THEIR NATION
Nothing stands out in this situation
more clearly than the absolute unity
of the German people. from the En-
peror and the Chancellor down to the
humblest man in the German ranks
than the conviction that they are fight
| ing for the very life of their nation
"It Is the fact that German mill
tarism, SO called, hSs produced in Its
army Il normally conscious military
unit that will make the cause OF Rus
| sia eventually hopeless.
at Is democracy against autocracy:
for, whatever may he said, Germany
to-day Is a true democracy, and. is In
| fact. the actual mother Of the cs-
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