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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.!
The State Department cabled me a
j message front the President to the
j Emperor, which stated that the
' United States stood ready at any
j time to mediate between the warring
powers, and directed me to present <
I this proposition direct to the emper!
or.
I therefore asked for an audience
with the Emperor, and received
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