The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-29
IS
URGING BIGGER
GERMAN ARMY
Won FREYTAG SAYS THEY
DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH
ARMY OR NAVY
Wants Empire PrePar-
ed for Next War
More Complete and Extensive
System of Training Than Ever
Demanded for Germany After
She Gets Hers This Time.

THE HAGUE. Nov. 2s-With Ger
many facing inevitable defeat in the
great world conflict now raging, Prus- /
forward to THE Next War
There is a big question whether
the German people viii be in a frame
of mind after this war to tolerate
preparations for another holocaust
ments would permit it.
Nevertheless indications are filter
ing out of Germany that the war lords,
both great and small, are looking, ev-
Ell at this time when Europe runs
red with blood, into the future with
belligerent glances.
An insight into the war-sOdden
minds of Prussian militarists is Civ
en- by a book published in Germany
called Deductions from the World
War a copy of which was received
here today from Berlin.
1t is written by Lieutenant Gener-
al Baron von F'reystag-LOr
who was quartermaster general of the
German army when General FaIken-
hayn was chief of the German general
staff General Won Freystag is now
stationed in Berlin a deputy chief
to the general staff His book breath
eS blood and thunder preparedness
After arguing that the German army
/ must be expanded after the present
conflict is over, Won Freystag con-
| tinues:
I'VE shall have to continue to pur-
sue this road in the future quite apart
| from the necessary increase in gar
risOn artillery and technical troops
and moreover when the number of
| these who have fought in the great
| war has fallen away, we shall have
to aim at subjecting at least to a cur
| sorry training the men of military age
/ who are at first rejected, but who in
the course of war have turned out to
/ be fit for service, so that when war
| breaks out they may form gener-
/ Gus source of reserves and only in
/ this way arrive at a real peO-
pies army, in which every one has
gone through the school of the stand
ing army
$50 what is the use of all this, il
may be asked. Will not the general
exhaustion of Europe after the world
| cOnf1a grafton put the danger of new
war in the background and does mo-
this terrible murder of peoples point
! inevitably to disarmament to pave the
way TO permanent peace? The reply
I is that no one can undertake to guar
antee long period of peace Last
ing peace is guaranteed only by
strong armament Moreover, worlC
; | power is incOnceivable without striv
ing for expression of power in thu
world and consequently for sea pow
. err
General Won Freystag then argues
for a greater German navy to cope Oh
sea with the increase of the German
army on land. He says:
I'm the future in the past tn
German people will have to seek 70
cohesion in its glorious army and il
its be-laurelled young fleet. Gu
business is to maintain the fundamen
tai ideas of war they lived in tn
German army up to 1914, to so ac
knowledge them from the experience
of the present war and to make tn
5 fullest technical use of them. But w
must do all this without giving "a
| entirely new direction to our think
| ing on strategy and tactics"
The last chapter of the book is cal
| ed "Still ready for war" and argue
E ! that Germany must be ready to plung
= | into fresh conflict after the preser
= ~hir1Wind of bloodshed and horror
o over Won F'reystag expresses tn
: | opinion that Germany, by her pOsitio
: in Europe and in world politics, "Gel
= man citizens must reject all ideas
pacifism and internatiOnalism-"
G Germany did not have near
q enough armaments ond land and SO
i when the present war began" write
d Won F'reystag, land this must be ren
| edied in the future More money wi
n be Internationally requested to equ
20 the F'atherland she should
d equipped"
IF In one chapter of training" Il
y writer says that the reports of &c
l. man boys must be utilized for militia
II purposes and that the principle
II two and three years compulsory m
itary training must be continued