Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
HUN MILITARY MACHINE \
DECIDEDLY 0fERRATED
If German Wasn't Nearly Worst Sol
dier In Europe, Would
nuvc Won War.
lis METHODS UNsCIENTIFIc
Defeated Time and Again When
Numerical Superiority Was Greatly
Against Allics-Teuton Trainin.
That OF Stock-Yards of Chicago.
international News Bureau
ny EDGAR WALLACE.

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ny EDGAR WALLACE.
| one gets sick and tired OF reading
about the very perfect military ma
chine" of Germany. of 'the wonderful
training school for war" which The
German staff founded on n "thoroughly
sound system" You invariably road
this kind of stuff when military mon
SIT down with pens in their hands to
examine modern Germany. The latest
offender tfrom whose ecstatic appre-
citation | quote) is Major-General Sir
Frederick Maurice. If this war has
proved anything it has proved that the
German was not thoroughly trained
for war. that his system was not :,
| thoroughly sound Sytem and that
he mas obtained his successes by the
accident of his geographical position
pius the slavish docility of his people.
The Chicago meat packers have n
! Thoroughly sound system" for killing
pigs They herd them into alleyways.
| they are picked UP by the leg on an
endless chain. their throats are neatly
cut by bored gentleman in blue over
alls, and they come out at the end OF
the packers perfect day in neat little
tins bearing the governments STAMP
of purity. The Chicago method has
made America populous in pigs. Pigs
never have such a good time in any
part OF the world as they have ON the
| farms in the. Middle West-they are
pred by the million because the pack
ers have discovered II method whereby
they can be eSpeditiously slaughtered
tude toward pork is very largely the
attitude of the general stan toward
IN n German an people Having millions
founded wonderful training school
for for war, which teaches the young
oiIlcer mat the only way to get
|
which means sending the pigs through
bue such ovsr, rate that the man in the
| them.
Where does this perfect military
SYSTEM" On the Marine in 1911. when
the German had big superiority OF
numbers and was beaten? At Ypres
In the same year. when the British held
| against four-to- one superiority: In
the Masurian Lakes, when Hindenburg
knew. from traitorous members of the
| Russian staff every move Of his enemy?
| Against Russia in 1916, when the Rus
sian army had one rife to three menp
two-nnd-a-half to one superiority?
On the somme In March. when he OPP
later. eighty divisions to half that mum
Der: On the Marne-or in the present &
hii We have taught the German
him the surprise break through: we
taught him air fighting and gave him
| his design for his Gotha. We taught
him the value of tanks and trenches.
and produced the perfect hand grenade.
pois9n gas was an invention of Lord
)undonald 100 years ago, and was re-
human weapon. The Wonderful train
from which Germany has learned Is
the stockyard school, with it's endless
chain and its blood watts. This adula-
ton OF things and methods German
dates back to the Prussianizing innu-
ences of that great and wonderful SOL
der George, Duke of Cambridge, of
painful memory.
GERMAN NEARLY WORST
SOLDIER IN EUROPE
If the German wasn't nearly the
worst soldier in Europe. and If German
strategy, was not the most unscientihc
the world has ever seen, the German
wGuid ha !, n Won his war as lie isn't
bubble is pricked, and The allied gem
e err, who still holds fast to his. faith
methods ought never to be allowed 70
command allied soldiers.
by far the most important news we
information published at Washington
that General John Pershing had taken
command of an all-Amcrican army, con.
hisgett, Reed. Billiard, Bundy and
Wright. 1t is important as Indicating
definite accession of fighting strength
to the allied force in France. and
think we can take 1t for granted that
this army represents an addition te
the units already in the field and at
u
This is the first new army which has
appeared In France since 1915. and the
event is significant one. More than
mics which the American commander
in-chief will control. If the German .
press is sIuealing now, what will il
ask. by the end OF September? For 4,
is common secret that we are on the
verge of great political event which
should reduce the German press and
Shr f.AL. Of
prehension. But even If our dream:
40 not come true in this respect here
Is wide-awake fact, which the Ger.
man may digest rs best he can ~
great American army is in line. an
army as big in corps strength as the
army OF Won Below. and. so far as one
can gather from study of the COM
muniques from all the fronts. neither
General Mangin nor General Rawlinson
has been asked to surrender the Amer
lean units which have rendered such
splendid service in the allies cause.
What big part Birmingham has
PLAYED in Rawlinson's victory Birming,
ham knows full we'll without beina
told. The Mdlands furnished the
weapon which struck the deadliest blow
at Prussian militarism. The workmer
Of Birmingham can take this credit &c
themselves that they have saved more,
british lives than have been lost ir
this offensive, and that is fact which
should be posted up in every workshop {
which has contributed to our human,
triumph
reference may. be made to til,
operations of our light cruisers ant
motorboats off. the Friesian Islands
This is evidently q sensitive spot foi
the. German. end though one does no
believe that such an INVASION as wal.
outlined by Chlders in his Riddle o, {
the Sands" from this part OF the Ger,
man coast is in contemplation, II Z,
ra Their remarkable that concentra,
ton OF German aeroplanes, var!ousn =
described as between twenty and forty 4
and Zeppelin should have been a
d. n m
tor of the German coast line. and ysnet
we remember that q week. ago tnuf
German took the unprecedented course
or conducting daylight reconna.s
sance with Zeppelins towards the Eng &
ltsh coast we may road into these hap a
Pen,ng overs possibilities Won sehes >,
II Is a notorious fact that Won Scheor Al
enmewhat puffed up by nIs escap. &
from destruction In the Jutlsnd SntS
tie. Is all for aggression. We sfyaiA
not be surprised. therefore,. to ar alaA