GERMAN MILITARY ORGANISATION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10156, 30 December 1910, Page 3

GERMAN MILITARY ORGANISATION.

A well-known Territorial officer, who was recently in England and on the Continent, speaking to a Press representative, said that the organisation of the German Army was simply .astounding. He mentioned, as an instance, that Metz and many of the frontier towns each had 20,000 troops ready to take the field at four hours' notice, and so efficient were the transport, medical, commissariat, and other departments, that in the time stated no less than a quarter of a million men would be ready to leave for the seat of war and would not need to return until the cessation of hostilities. At the Met/, railway station there was as many as twenty five loop lines especially for entraining troops, and no fewer than 380 troop trains could, if the necessity arci«e, lie despatched in one day. A foreign military officer visiting Germany had immediately to inform the military .authorities of his identity, otherwise, he would, if discovered, he summarily imprisoned. A wonderful check was kept b\' the police on all hotel registers, and by this means it was very hard for a visiting officer to escape detection. The informant also mentioned that South of London alone there were no fewer than 25,000 Germans, and every man of these knew exactly at which point of mobilisation he was to report himself in the event of an outbreak of war. These, said the officer, were' instances of German wonderful military methods that should cause every thoughtful British- ;. er some degree of uneasiness.