Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-02
GERMANS WANT PEACE,
BUT DENIED BY RULERS
Organization Works TO Keep Alive
War Spirit and Hamper
Peace Movement.
BOOK WRITTEN FOR PURPOSE
Baron Won eytng-Loringhovcn'
lessons From the Great War"
Most Widely Read Volume in Ger
many-Can't Go Out of Country.

LONDON December 1.-The CORE
spondcnt of II London newspaper at
Bern, Switzerland. writes:
Although Il considerable portion of
the German people may be inclined to-
ward peace. yet those who hold power
and influence and all the strong or
CARNATIONS are doing their utmost to
stimulate war feeling. y sign OF this
is the book written by Lieutenant
General Baron Won Freytag -Loring-
hoven. deputy chief OF the Prussinn
grand general staff, entitled Lessons
From the Great War" 1t is now by
far the most widely read and discussed
book in Germany. 1t is published by
Mettlcr, of Berlin. and for the last few
weeks has been sold by tens OF thou
sands.
Il have ascertaincd that not only
is no one allowed To send the hook
out of Germany To amy neutral conn
try, but no quotations from the book
are permitted in the German press.
The reason for this is probably not
the books violent advocacy OF i'm
mcnsc ornaments after the war and
Of Gcrmany's being in the future even
HioiC ptlllCoSc anu llldil III
the past. but that in its discussion OF
the lessons to be learned by Germans
from the war, il gives the real causes
Of the German defeat on the Marine
and the failure of various other Ger
man plans. such as the famous nd
vances to Calais and to Vcrdun.
German frontier authorities have
received special urgent instructions to
be on the watch for this hook and to
open all book parcels and Investigate
all books in order IL make sure that
they do not contain either all or part
of Won FreytaS's book. Even The Aus
TRAN frontier authorities have received
orders TO be on the watch for this
book
"Ncverthclcss. Professor Lamma sch.
a leading authority on International
law and the chief Austrian technical
delegate to The Hague conference. dis .
cusscs the book at great length in Die
Ieit. of Vienna, even giving few
short quotations from it.
CONTINUE no 81; READY
FOR WAR. nook ADVISES
Professor I.ammasch. who cannot
conceal mis- admiration for the ability
and style OF the book. makes no at
tempt to hide his extreme disappro-
baton OF its ideas and arguments.
The last chapter ends with the
words. Continue 10 be ready for war.
and the authors main contention is
that our ornaments eventually proved
to have been Inadequate. whence he
iufers that what must he done j. to
take 10 heart this lesson: That in flu
tu-e We must never in any "ircrin-
stances permit any difference betw cen
our demands and what actually must
be done in war to become so great as
il was in the present war. and we
must sweep aside all arguments urmed
to the contrary Again, Won Frrytac
says: The war has shown Us that
the extra expenditure incurred for III :,
army would have been worth incur
ring sooner. We should thus not only
have saved many billions in the war.
but IN all probability not have nee led
the sacIi fico OF nearly so many lives
Won Freytag then says that the
present period of German military S"r-
vice must not he reduced. and declares
that the demands for miitar, md
naval credits which have been made
i'm tho Releasing we're 4 bare mini..,um
OF what they ought to have been. The
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