Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-08

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posers. 1t is but a few weeks since
Road Amundsen was forbidden to lee
ture in Norwegian. prohibition later re-
scinded in face Of public sentiment a
series of six addresses In Alsace by prom.
inent French public men was to nave
been completed by an address by tne
| editor of Paris paper. This aodI ess
has Just been prohibited, undoubtedly IN
compliance to instructions from Berlin.
Thousands of Recruits Annually.
Fifty thousand more recruits must be
called to the colors every year ana the
term Of service increased from two years
to thirty months if the German army
is to be kept at full strength and ef-
ticiency. according to Gen. Won Bern
hardi. cavalry tactician, who supports the
campaign for increased appropriations for
the army He argues that even the in
crease of 1856 O0O men voted In July Will
not exhaust the supply OF possible re
cruits. Estimates of the number of able
bodied men who will escape consumption
way from 10000 to 10000. These men.
if not trained, will not be available for
service in the next great European war,
which Won Bernhard Is convinced Is I'M
pending. and one or two hundred tnou-
sand possible soldiers of the younger
generation would be left at home. while
an equal number of older men with
families would be modified in their
places. He proposes to remedy this py
a Jaw automatically regulating the peace
strength of the army at a fixed p:ocentua!
ratio of the population. calculated on
the full percentage of able-bodfed men
twenty years old. Other demands to the
reichStag he says include increase OF
the transport and of the aerial fleet,
bicycle detachments to accompany the
cavalry, more anti-balloon cannon and a
further development of wireless telegra-
ply.
TT tha mill
tary authorities are satisfied with the
development of the aerial division OF the
army. More than half of the GOO licensed
pilots are available for military service.
They are trained for reliability rather
than for spectacular stunts. and have
been flying steadily throughout the win
ter in al! kinds of weather, always in
trusted with some military task. Ger
man aviators now hold both distance
and duration records for the world.
Progress in Dirigible Ballooning.
In dirigible balloons there is a steady
advance, despite disasters. The latest
military Zeppelin, which has just crossed
Germany in a trial trip at a speed
of sixty five miles an hour. has a cruis-
ing radius at a height of a mile and
a quarter. 1t will carry a more efficient
battery of machine guns than its prede
ceSSOTS, ana mas d new ueNlee IL carly
escaping gases clear of the car and pre-
vent explosions like that which destroy
ed the second naval airship. Another in
vention, to be tried out on one of the
Parseval balloons. is an unsuitable gon-
dola. entirely inclosed in water-tight
sheet steel. The gondola, which resem-
bles q submarine can be quickly detach-
ed from the body of the airship, if the
latter is driven down upon the surface
of the sea, and will float for day or
more. Practical tests will soon be begun.
The American general staff follows
these and other developments in the Ger
man army with the closest attention. and
intends, it is understood. to send over
more observers to Germany in future.
Capt Henry C. Whitehead. 10th Cavalry.
has for a year been attached to Ger
man cavalry regiment living with the
officers and taking part in the daily rou-
tine of the regiment, with such successful
results that four more officers, 1t Is re-