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r ===j GERMANY NOT DEFEATED; AMBASSADOR GERARD GIVES FACTS AXD FIGURES. Of Twejve Million Men in German Col's ors, Nine Million Still Effective. * ly Under Arms. That Germany is still far from defeated is the statement made by Am bassador James \V. Gerard in his I book "My Four Years in Germany." j An excerpt from this book was recent^ ly read in the Congressional Record. + and gives startling information concerning the Teutonic empire. Below is the portion of the book which ^ was inserted in the Record: I am writing what should have been the last chapter as the foreword of this book, because I want to bring home to our people the gravity of the situation; because I want to tell them that the military and naval power of the German Empire is unbroken; that of the 12,000,000 men whom the Kaiser has called to the colors but 1,500,000 have been kill ed, 500,000 permanently disabled, L not more than 500,000 constitute the ? wounded or on the sick list of each K day, leaving at all times about 9,V 000,000 effectives under arms. I state these figures because Americans do not grasp either the magnitude or the importance of this war. Perhaps the statement that more than 5,000,000 prisoners of war are held in the various countries will bring home to Americans the enormous mass of men engaged. There have been no great losses v ^ in the German Navy, and any losses of ships have been compensated for 4 by the building of new ones. The 9,000,000 men and more?for at least 400,000 come of military age In ? Germany every year?because of t their experience in two and a half L years of war, are better and more efficient soldiers than at the time 'when they were called to the colors. - Their officers know far more of the science of this war and the' men themselves now have the skill and bearing of veterans. German Nation Will Not Starve or Revolt. Nor should any one believe that Germany will break under starvation .. or make peace because of revolution. The German nation is not one that * , makes revolutions. There will be scattered riots in Germany, but no simultaneous rising of the whole people. The officers of the army are all of one class, and of a class devoted to the ideals of autocracy. A revolution of the army is impossible, and at home there are only the boys and old men, easily kept in subjection by the police. There is far greater danger of the : v starvation of our allies than of the - starvation of the Germans. Every '5 available inch of ground in Germany is cultivated, and cultivated by the aid of the old men, the boys, and , women and the 2,000,000 prisoners 0r of war. I The arable lands of northern fT France and of Rumania are being > cultivated by the German army with an efficiency never before known in " these countries, and most of that food will be added to the food sup,'r plies of Germany. Certainly the peopie suffer; but still more certainly this war will not be ended because of the starvation of Germany. Although thinking Germans know that if they do not win the war the to financial day of reckoning will come, 5, nevertheless, owing to the clever fi-' nancial standing of the country by j the Government and the great banks, there is at present no .financial distress in Germany; and'- the knowledge that unless indemnities are ob tained from other countries tne weight of the great war debt will fall upon the people perhaps makes them readier to risk all in a final attempt / to win the war and -impose indemnities upon not or^v the nations of Europe but upon the United States of America. / We are^lgaged in a war against b - the great^p military power the world hasher seen; against a people whose r-country was for so many centuries a theatre of such devastating wars that fear is bred in the very marrow of their souls, making them ready to submit their lives and fortunes to an autocracy which for centuries has ground their faces, but which has promised them, as a result of the war, not only security but riches untold and the dominion of the world: a people which, as from a high mountain, have looked upon the cities of the world and the glories of them and have been promised these cities v and these glories by tbe aevns 01 auT tocracy and of war. We are warring against a nation whose poets and professors, whose pedagogues, and whose parsons have united in stirring its people to a white pitch of hatred, first against Russia, then against England, and now against America. The U-boat peril is a very real one for England. Russia may either break up into civil wars or become so ineffective that the millions of German troops engaged 011 the Russian front may be withdrawn and hurled against the western lines. We stand in great peril, and only the exercise of ruthless realism can win this war for us. If Germany wins this war, it means the triumph of the < autocratic system. It means the triumph of those who believe not only in war as a national industry, not only in war for itself, but in war as a high and noble occupation. Unless Germany is beaten, every nation will ] be compelled to turn itself into an j armed camp until the German an- ] tocracy either brings the whole world t under its dominion or is forever wip- j ed out as a form of government From Now On Wc Xeed the Doers. "We are in this war because we J were forced into it, because Germany j not only murdered our citizens on the high seas but filled our country \ with spies and sought to incite our j people to civil war. We were given < no opportunity to discuss or negotiate. The 48 hours' ultimatum sent I by Austria to Serbia was not, as Ber- 1 nard Shaw said, "a decent time in j which to ask a man to pay his hotel ; bill." What of the six-hour ultimatum given to me in Berlin on the evening of January 31, 1917, when ; I was notified at 6 that ruthless warfare would commence at 12? Why, the German government, which up to that moment had professed amity and a desire to stand by the Sussex pledges, knew it took almost two days to send a cable to America! 1 believe that we are not only justly in this war but prudently in this war. If we had stayed out and the war had been drawn or won by Germany, we would have been attacked?and that \yhile Europe stood grinning by ?not directly at first, but through an attack on some Central or South American State to which it would be at least as difficult for us to send troops as for Germany. And what if this powerful nation, vowed to war, were once firmly established in South or Central America? What of our boasted isolation then? It is only because I believe that our people should be informed that-1 have consented to write this book. There are too many thinkers, writers. and speakers in the United States; from now on we need the doers, the organizers, and the realists, who alone can win this contest for us, for democracy, and for permanent peace! Writing of events so new, I am, of course, compelled to exercise a great discretion, to keep silent on many things of which I would speak, to suspend many judgments, and to hold for future disclosure many things the relations of which now would perhaps ohly serve to increase bitterness or to cause internal dissension in our own land. The American who travels through Germany in summer time or who spends a month having his liver tickled at Haniburg or Carlsbad, who has his digestion restored by Dr. Dapper, at Kissengen, or who learns the lost art of eating meat at Dr. Dengler's, in Baden, learns little of the real Germany and its rulers, and in these articles I tell something of the real Germany, not only that my readers may understand the events of the last three years, but that they may judge of what is likely to happen in our future relations with that country. I. First Days of the Great War; Political and Diplomatic. At the commencement of the great war I was for some days cut. off from communication with the United ( States, but we soon established a chain of communication?at first through Italy and to Berlin, or vice versa, took on the average two days in transmission. After the fall of Liege, Von Jagow sent for me and asked me whether I would transmit through the American legation a proposition offering Belgium peace and indemnity if no further opposition were made to the passage of German troops through Belgium. As the proposition was a proposition for peace, I took the responsibility of forwarding it, and sent the note of the German Government to our minister at The Hague for transmission to our minister in Bel gium. Dr. Van Dyke, our minister at The Hague, refused to have anything to do with the transmission of this proposition and turned the German note over to the Holland minister of foreign affairs, and through this channel the proposition reached the Belgian Government. An Audience With Kaiser Wilhelni.! 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