EN MARCH TO PARIS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2256, 16 September 1914, Page 5

EN MARCH TO PARIS.

PICTURE OF THE GERMAN WAR MACHINE I ("limes" end Sydney "Bun" Services.) (Reo. September 15, 5.50 p.m.) London, September 14. An_ American correspondent who was permitted to '•■ examine the German armies as they started on the invasion of France says that for five solid hours, travelling at express train speed, ,he motored between -walls of marching men. I This was the. Ninth Field Anny, composed of the very flower of the Empire, including the magnificent Imperial Guard. The men were all young, keen las razors, and as hard as naiJs. Tie horses were splendid. "Tho artillery," he 6ays, "included five gigantic howitzers, each drawn by sixteen pairs of horses, and capable of tearing a city 'to pieces at a distance of a dozen miles. Field-kitchens rumbled down the lines serving steaming hot soup and coffee to the men, without the latter breaking step. Wagons filled with cobblers. were' mending : soldiers' [-boots. Other apparently harmless wagons carried machine-guns ready for 'instant action. ' ■--' /■•'The Medical Corps was as efficient as a great city hospital. Men on bicycles strung the field telephones from tree to tree, enabling' the commander to converse with any part of the fiftymile long column. Tns whole army never sleeps; when half is marching tho other is resting. ' The' soldiers are treated as valuable machines, and kept in the highest possible state of efficiency. They are well fed, shod, and clothed, and worked as a negro teamster works a mule."