HOW GERMANY WOULD MOBILISE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 98, 22 May 1909, Page 3

HOW GERMANY WOULD MOBILISE.

Xobody who has visited the Fatherland «an fail to have heen struck by t)ic large official signboards at the entry'•fo «ach town or village. These contain full information as to exactly which official 'jjPthc community to apply to should the magic word "mobilise" be spoken. Wherever the German reservist may r'iti.'ce to lit when the. order to mobilise i< giren—assuming, of course, that he is not out of the country—lie has only got to ask the first inhabitant, or Walk in the end of the village and look at Oie directions on the signboard, to find t.iit his' own particular place in the military scht'inc. He will see that he must ej U ftwr Schmidt, at Xo. 40, Schutzeu>rect. Herr Schmidt will tell him exact - ), i which town lie has to go in order Hi .ejoin his own unit, and: what is still more important, will give him the ■*■ money and the railway pass w take him j iM«re. Arrived at his destination, he will find his uniform, arms, aud accoutrements filled neatly in a heap, with n label bearing hi« name and regimental number on the top of oie heap. He has only to put it on and take his, place amongst the comrades with whom he did Iris military service some -years ago. This destination waa arranged upon jnany years back, and the exact time,je3>edule for marching and railway journeys was compiled long since. Messrs. Thon)».s Cook and Son cannot hold a .candle to the great German general staff In the matter of organising personallyeontfucTed tours on a stupendous scale.- ' Extract from us grticle in the Penny Pictorial.