"THE STRONG MAN ARMED.'

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1649, 16 January 1913, Page 8

"THE STRONG MAN ARMED.'

; GERMAN. GENERAL'S WARNING. , ; . -Speaking at Saarbnickcn," recently Gen- ; oral von Eichhorn, .Inspector of the Seventh. Army.lnspection, said: "We live in, earnest; times; which will havo caused many people in the German ' .nation to. refiect, arid 'show 'heiii" the truth and Tightness of the. 6aying, 'Readi- . ! nesg, is, evei^hing.'l' think' l 'cah. ' in the name of: tho'army, give the' assurance that,' as" far as human, imperfection per- ' mils, the army is working with all possible, ■* energy to fulfil'this demand. In recent times it has often seemed to '.he as if, in many sections of our nation!'tho internal, ' the physical readiness .was getting shaky; 1 the readiness to take upon oneself even • tho horrors, of war when it is a'q'iiestion J of honour, welfare, and the future of oiir ' fatherland. .!, 1 " '. , 6 "Many things co-operate to produce, (his T effect, but the most dangerous of, t'.iom cppears- to. mo ; to bo -the.', ever, louder en- | deavours and agitation pf certain, it' is J truo well-meaning, people, who! hang on 1 to the. apron-strings of a well-known kdy, 0 who'preach eternal peace where all l'fe is 0 battlo and Nature itself is continually in a conflict; who with great intolerance Te- s gard everyone who cannot follow tho 0 Icarus flights of their ideas and yithes' . as belonging to a lower civilisation; ond j, l who want to mako us'boliovo'that it is J 1 all our fault if men Wo not mutually em. t braco one another in ; . a perpetual spring of fraternisation; . ' . ' a "True, the.v liavo not. established peace Ji du earth. Since they started' thero has been more.war than before; but they de- vlude our nation, they deprive, it of its P ritality,' tlio strength ,of our people, and 2 ixerciso upon it an effeminating influ- " mce. Tliqy may be; very well-meaning per'ionages who advocato, these ideas,' . but, ni speaking objectively, I can only, nay they 6t ire committing a crimo against tl .i Gernnn nation." .The same papers which sharply ccniemned Lord Roberts's last speech havo ni lothing but tho warmest eulogies fur Gen- -to iral von Eichhorn, who was only express- hi ng views almost universally held in the dc Herman officers' corps, even if ho was. in peaking in tho inflammatory atmosphere .to •f a' "beer-evening."—London "Da iljr Tele- tli raph." or - ============ . or