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crete information which I have been
able to check up in Germany itself.
In modern warfare there are seven
principal factors-man power, artil-
lery, tanks, aircraft, chemicals (Which
may include bacteriology), transport
and staff work. My investigations in
dictate that in all these save man pow
er and chemical-bacteriolog posi-
bilities, Germany is considerably be-
low the requirements for successful
war. No one can doubt the courage
and efficiency of German troops, and
there is always the chance that Ger
man science may develop, or has al
ready developed, a new and deadly
weapon in the chemical bacteriolog-
ical field. Personally. do not believe
this is true, but all my informants ad-
mitted it was a potentiality which
| could not be ignored.
German Artillery Behind.
In artillery Germany is three, if not
six, months behind the schedule set
two years ago. The manufacture of
guns is a highly technical process,
which had been virtually abandoned in
Germany for Is years, with the result
that when the Germans began again
to forge cannon there was a great
shortage of skilled labor. Germans
have been brought back from the
arsenals of Japan, Brazil, China and
even Soviet Russia, at great expense
and with extreme urgency, to train
younger workers in the art of gun
making. German tanks are numeric-
ally and mechanically inferior to those
of Russia and Britain. The tank pro-
duction is not much behind schedule
but the schedule itself is considered
too low for modern war.
German aircraft has received enor-
nous publicity in the last two years.
partly from the British for interested
reasons, partly owing to the picturesque
and f1amboyant character of its chief,
Gen. Goering. There is little doubt that
the German air force is equal to that
of France or Britain in quality and
numbers. In quality it probably sur
passes RuSsia's, but the Soviets have a
considerable numerical superiority
German aircraft, especially motors, are
not being built so fast as had been ex-
pected. 1t is enough to know that the
delay in the construction of the new
Zeppelin was due to the demand for
skilled men in the airplane industry
to realize that the schedule for air
planes is not being fulfilled. 1t may be
said that the time-lag in aviation is
not less than three months, and tina.
the output is not more than IS per
cent of what was intended.
In transport, Germany has mace
great and important advances, but Is
still short of what is needed for war.
The railroad efficiency of Germany was
demonstrated beyond doubt in the
World War, but military experts today
are of the opinion that railroads are
too vulnerable form of transport, IS
they can be rapidly put out of action
by bombing planes or by sudden mass
attacks by parachute troops upon vital
bridges or functions. Roads, on the
other hand, are less exposed to hostile
action, and Germany at present is
building up great force of road build
erS-and incidentally creating the
strategic roads themselves-which
would be of immense value in a con-
f1lct with Russia, whose trackleSs
steppes have always been a major de-
Tense against invasions. On the other