Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-22
GREAT SPEED OF
KA|SER'S ARMY
WINS ADMIRATION
Not an Accident Delays Long
March Across Belgiun--Ef-
ficiency at Its Highest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BEAUMONT. Belgium, August Is
(hy mail to New York; when the
French regiments paraded through
Gembleux, a ripple of admiration
ran through the almost hysteri.
cal Belgian popuiace, VINO had Wai'ea
so long for the promised support of
Francs With their bright blue and
red uniforms, their gaiety, glitter and
song, they made colorful entry
which quite fulfilled ones conception
of the romantic spirit of war. But II
was noticeable that they did not
march in particularly good order, and
the doors of the wagons in their bag
gage train tapped and banged.
When the Germans appeared on the
outskirts of Brussels, they might have
been mistaken for a cloud of low-lying
mist, their gray-green uniforms melt
ing against a neutral background.
The entry was not theatrie, but II
throbbed with power and efficiency.
In place of the romantic French god
of war. there was a silent, gray col
ored machine which was complete TO
the last detail Wagon doors, instead
Of Tapping, had patented locks anu
bars.
For three days the aygreen sol
diers marched through Brussels, part
of any army of over million and
half that pushed their way through
Belgium In completeness of equip
ment it was like a travelling city 1t
had its postal service its telegraph
corps, its provision trains miles in
length, which provided for the sol
diers menu as satisfactory as that
which they could have obtained IN
tirst-class restaurant.
Not a Wheel Squeaked. >
CT. nanh
drawn by six horses, followed each
field gun, and there were professions
of them two miles long. There We're
in addition many truck and traction
engines for the heavy siege guns
And in all this colossal train not
wheel sdueaked, not an accident de-
layed the forward progress.
The efficiency CT the Red Cross de-
partments is best indicated by the
fact that in following the German
army for a hundred mics over bat
tlefields, at times only a few hours
behind the fighting, none of the small
group of correspondents discovered n
wounded German soldier uncared for,
or any dead.
The speed of the army is attested by
the fact that correspondents with
bicycles and carriages could not keep
up with the German advance. Daily
marches of so kilometres were the
usual thing, and at times they greatly
exceeded that distance. The French
were being pushed back faster than
men could ride on bicycles
At the end of one of these exhaust
ing marches, / spent the evening in
barrack room with German soldiers.
For three hours they sang and danced,
without a sign of fatigue An officer
said he had marched night and day
for three days, but seemed fresh and
anxious to go on. The physical
stamina of the men is extraordinary.
Establish Lighting system.
At Beaumont an acetylene lighting
system as effective as electricity was
established twelve hours after the
! German entry into the town, and not
long after their own trains were run
ming on the tracks to Charleroi.
| Minor evidences of their thorough
ness were seen in the equipment of
each soldier who carried with him
not only every necessity of war, but
food enough to sustain him If he were
separated from the provision trains.
1t was interesting to note that even
his suspenders were protected against
emergencies and that his trousers
carried an extra set of buttons In case
one set gave way. No detail seems
small enough to have escaped Ger
man study and preparation.
At Zone Fiat, on the way from
Charleroi to Aix-la- Chapelle, a man
lying at full length in the station yard
suddenly extracted telephone instru-
ment from flower bed and began a
conversation with headquarters.
There is no hint of the fulfillment of
the prophecies uttered by French
writer's to the effect that the German
soldiers were victims of an infiexible
system of rules which were not
adaptable to emergencies-tha their
success was predicted upon a given
set of conditions. These Germans
rules, in the words of q German Of
| ficer, Ego into the brain" of the SOL
dier, and he is not merely the I'M
thinking reflex. 1.-THE German soldier
cannot retreat or turn back" said an
orderly, during a barrack room dis
cussion at Beaumont. "If he goes
forward and is killed, then there are
others who will take his place, but in
the vocabulary of the German soldier
there is no such word as retreat"
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