"The Lost Army."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7862, 3 July 1905, Page 2

"The Lost Army."

A formor German soitiier, Arthur Ptkw' h^ s A wiitto , n a book, entitled The Lost Army/ in which he flescribes the eanses of the wholesale desertions which are now prevalent m Germany. Nowakowski himself debited from the Infantry regiment, and escaped across tho frontier into Switzerland. Last year he published a book called 'Soldiers in an East Sr w n 4 ? an:is ? n ' in which he described the systematic craejty which, « k? ed, n d^V iBI t0 lesertion and fight. During the year which N«wakowsto spent in Switzerland, tind h* ? D i' an( i England, he met large numbers of youne yreitHans who ha< fled aht«* to es? capo compulsory military service, and TOnr 08 ? ? c Of them were driven to desertion by abuses of German aiiUUvism. Large num. bcr s of Ger Wn deserters join "e foicign leagues of other countries Nowako.wski declares that this is a i h?°r that th r 7 do BOt dcsert from the German Amy because they dis«Ln< lnS / oldlo , rs ' but toausc ilh'cß cannot .endure the militarism as 11 7: piactised in Germany. Sixteen tViv«!? wnd Germans, he alleges, ar c SSt prying in the French foreirVw? n „T Aißwia and Ki ! 000 German deserted art i; 3 B °fn / 3eT K um' ? W t itm ' ? ami, • S i . gC p .''°P nnio « of these 1 vation ?n en ? pnvation . even st*s tw'" . Ior «?n countries rather '"an sety«, ra the German Army No. prefaces his book by' an <■ ~fe let ! cr tflc German Minister ji'fai, in which he summarises thi pauses oi these wholesale desertions" 'appeals for a general amnesty on oecMion of the Crown Prtice's-