Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-03
PERFIDY WHICH THREW
ROUMANIA TO DOGS
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vast SuInSlOl SeCTeI SeTVlCe ulouey, ouI
also engaged the services Of the lodges
Of Freemasonry, which in France is
purely political and professedly atheis-
tic. The underhand and unsoldierlike
methods which he thus employed to
ferret out the religious views of the
officers had the effect Of covering him
with such execration that ex-Abbe
Combes, who was then premier, was
obliged to move him from office, In or
der to save his administration from
shipwreck.
Twice Removed by Joffre.
Sarrail was one of Andres principal
coadjutors and agents in this policy
Of religious persecutions-now a thing
of the past in, France-and this, has
not been forgotten by the army. He
has never. shone as a general in the
field. He enjoys the distinction Of
having been twice deprived of his
command by Marshal Joffre; the first
time in the Argonne for gross ineffi-
cheney. Political influences brought to
ebar. upon the government by Caillaux.
Combes and by his other radical So
cialist friends forced the war depart
ment to very reluctantly accord to him
another command this time before
Verdun. There he again did badly, and
when he lost several thousand men by
allowing them to be surprised and
overwhelmed by German poison gas
attack, he was once more removed
from his command by Joffre and sent
back to Paris, with an intimation that
wholesale designations Of officers
would follow II he were again forced
upon the army at the front. It was
then that the government OF the day
glad Of the opportunity to get him out
OF France, assigned him to the COM
mand Of the allied armies at Saloniki.
Fate May Be Death:
Sarrairs military career Is now end-
ed, no matter what happens, for Pre-
mier Clemenceau has Just secured the
enactment of a law reducing the age
limit OF generals to "a, save in certain
exceptional instances, and Sarrail Is in
the neighborhood OF CO. A curious
phase Of the situation is the popular
satisfaction shown by people Of eyery
class in France at the idea that he and
Catllaux are to be dealt with by mill
tary tribunals instead Of by the ordin-
airy courts. or else by the senate, sit
ing as high court Of justice. The
people are firmly convinced that the
upper chamber, as well as the ordin-
airy courts Of law, would allow them
selves to be swayed by political con-
siderations, and diverted from their
purpose by technicalities. In France
the judges all depend for their appoint
ment and promotion or for transfer
upon the caprice and good will of tho
minister Of Justice, and are therefor,
subservient to his will
Military tribunals are in the estiria-
ton Ct the public far ::o:c ::acnend-
emit Of political influences and cnarar-
terized by much loftier sense of hon
or. Moreover, military justice Is never
protraceed. 1t is always swift and yery
stern, and in the event Of the ofrenses
which have been laid at the door Of
former Premier Caillaux and Gen sar-
rail being brought home to thcm, then
their fate may be that OF death. That
is why Caillaux fought so strenuously,
but in vain, to have his case tried hy
the senate sitting as high court OF
justice, or by the ordinary courts Of
law, rather than by those military
tribunals which alone nowadays M
France-aye, and Ill many other coun
tries-command the complete conf
dence and respect of the people.