New Britain herald., 1916-11-16
ALL GERMANY TO
BE A GREAT Unit
Mobilization Of All Resources Is
Aim Of Gen. GrOener

! Berlin, Nov 16-All Germany to-
day still echoes and for some time will
continue to ring with after effects of
the sudden announcement of proposed
Introduction of compulsory non-mil-
itary service which will practically
complete the gradual metamorphoss
! of the German mpire into a twentieth
! century super-spartan state for
fighting only and for fighting on in
definitely.
Never before had there been so
! much peace talk and speculation as
in the last two weeks in Germany or
such intensive and extensive prepar-
atoms for continuing to wage the war
| on a Titanic scale that will transcend
| anything yet seen. I'm time of peace
talk prepare for war to the finish is
| the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES idea
which has aroused Germany to
pitch of patriotism as nothing else
| has done since mobilization and the
| beginning of the war. the principal
| difference being that German people
are now acting with quiet determina-
ton instead of the previous fervent
! enthusiasm.
simultaneously with the hope of
| peace engendered by rhetorical
! preachers and German statesmen, the
| German people suddenly glimpse a
very substantial vision of Won Hin
| II
| the armies and for industry, and Lu-
| dendorff calling for double and treble
| the output of ammunition, cannon
! and other war material, the Hin
| denburg-Ludendorff combination
| crowned with virtually dictatorial
powers and enjoying the blind faith
| Of the whole acknowledging a far
reaching reorganization of social and
! economic resources, and the organi-
zation of the "home army to be
| commanded by Major Gen. Groener,
former chief Of military railways, and
recognized today as Germany's great
| test organizing genius.
Grocner's Powers Extensive.
The new "organizer of victory
| will have powers such as seldom are
welded by any one man, including SUI
|
! tries and economic resources directly
| or indirectly affecting prosecution of
| the war to a victorious finish. He
| will oversee control and disposition of
! the potential energies of all the So
| 100000 of Germans behind the front
| who are not needed for the fighting
| arm.
| Groener is known as an up-to-date
! exponent of American corporation
| methods and a former official of bu-
! rcaucratc Europe. 1t has been in
! timated already that he will Danish
| all bureaucrats and red tape from
| his new war office. He regards the
task which Won Hindenburg has in
trusted to him as a business enter
| prise on a grand scale having Ger
| many's victory in the world war as
it's sole object.
| AS president of this new military
| corporation, which generally is an
| arms, ammunition, and war material
| trust Groener will have under him
the following subsidiaries: The form
er factory division of the war minis
try, comprising all government owned
or operated manufacturing plants,
| the former arms and ammunition
| production division of the war min
| stry; the new war industry division
| which has charge of the building and
| operating of plants for manufacture
| ing of war materials, and of the
| task of increasing the output and
| efficiency of existing plants; the nor
| NAL raw material division of the war
ministry; the division for substitute
| materials; the war labor division
| charged with drafting workers and
distributing materials for war indus
| tries; the division of exports and i'm
ports, and the division to deal with
| questions Of national economy.
To cut out red tape, Groener will
have personal representatives in the
form of general managers in every
province, with their offices at the
seat of the several general-com-
mandos, to control and regulate the
war industries Of each army corps
district, with special industrial vice.
roys for the Rhenisch and Luxem-
bourg Industrial sections.
| There will be liable to compulsory
home service at the disposition of the
war office, 1t is understood, all men
of military age who are unfit to bear
arms; also all males of non-military
age. This method is expected to tap
| a vast reservoir of potential energy
| which has not been employed here
tofore for successful prosecution of
the war. At the same time hundreds
of thousands of able-bodied workmen
| will be released for military service
by the substitution in their places of
men past military age or physically
| unfit for service at the 'front.'