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Transcriber's notes
  • There is only one footnote: it has been placed at the end of Part II.
  • The spelling and hyphenation are as found in the original text.
  • There is one spelling mistake that deserves mention. Although dreadnaught is an accepted spelling of "dreadnought when used to mean fearless, Henderson's use of it to denote a certain type of warship is incorrect. Warships of this type were called dreadnoughts after H.M.S. Dreadnought, the first example of its type.
  • The table of contents was not part of the original text.
  • There are 87 illustrations in this book. These illustrations, with a link to each of them, are listed in the Appendix. This Appendix was not in the original text.
  • The captions of all the illustrations have been left as they appear in the book. Six of them, however, contain a numbered link to a note in the Appendix that explains why and how the caption should be changed.
GERMANYS FIGHTING MACHINE

Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Wilhelm II.

GERMANYS
FIGHTING MACHINE
Her Army, Her Navy, Her Air-ships, and
Why She Arrayed Them Against the
Allied Powers of Europe
By
ERNEST F. HENDERSON
Author of
Short History of Germany
History of Germany in the Middle Ages
Blcher, Etc., Etc.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

C OPYRIGHT 1914
T HE B OBBS -M ERRILL C OMPANY
CHARLES FRANCIS PRESS, NEW YORK

GERMANYS FIGHTING MACHINE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
The War
The Army
The Navy
List of Illustrations

GERMANYS
FIGHTING MACHINE
PART I
THE WAR
But a few weeks ago the author of this little book was in Germany studying the land and its institutions and full of admiration for its achievements in every field. Two days after he had taken ship for America Germany was practically at war with France and Russia. England soon joined in the conflict, and the splendid Hamburg liner on which the author was a passenger was a hunted thing on the ocean, owing her safety at last to a friendly fog. The great shipping company, with its nearly two hundred vessels, was out of the running as a commercial enterprise, a symbol of the paralyzed industries of the whole country.
To the ordinary observer the conflict came like a bolt from the blue, but to the historian and to the man who reads the foreign newspapers it was not unexpected. The historians recognized that it was the appointed time for a war between the great nations. The Franco-Prussian War took place forty-three years ago. When, since the days of the grandsons of Charlemagne, have the chief powers kept out of war for so long a time? In the ninth and tenth centuries the question of Lorraine was as troublesome as it has been in the nineteenth and twentieth; in the eleventh and twelfth an expedition against Italy was in the days work of almost every German emperor; and England and Sicily were conquered by the Normans; in 1215 took place the first general international battle; in 1250 the final expeditions against the Emperor Frederick II; in 1272 the Sicilian wars of the house of Anjou. The Guelphs and Ghibellines carry us on to the Hundred Years War; the Hapsburg struggles against Italy and the Turks bring us down to the invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France, to the campaigns of Maximilian, to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, to the religious wars of Charles V. Close on the heels of the latter struggles came not only the French religious wars but the invasion of England by Philip IIs great armada. The Thirty Years War, Louis XIVs war of conquest, the Spanish Succession, the Silesian and the Seven Years Wars fill the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; the Napoleonic, Crimean and Franco-Prussian Wars the nineteenth. Yes, it was time for a new struggle.
When a great and extraordinary event takes place it is easy, somewhere in the world, to point to omens and prophecies that have heralded it. But in the case of the present war we can see in the German newspapers how, from month to month of the present year, the struggle was felt to be more and more imminent and how Russia, the power that eventually precipitated the catastrophe, was felt to be the center of real danger. In well-informed diplomatic circles, writes the Magdeburger Zeitung in January, 1914, the impression can not be concealed that in Russia at present there prevails a thoroughly hostile attitude to Germany and Austria-Hungary, and that the agitation in the czars realm is greater even than during the last Balkan crisis. It looks as though Russia were preparing to make an extraordinarily great show of strength against a specific, not far distant date. And the Deutsche Tageszeitung: What is Russias purpose in building a mighty fleet of dreadnaughts for the Baltic? Surely not merely to coerce Sweden. Again the Madgeburg paper: The Russian government, which already owes French capitalists twelve billions, has received a new loan of two billions five hundred millions, of which five million are yearly to be issued in Paris. This whole gigantic sum is exclusively to be spent for building strategic railways along the German-Russian boundary. France compelled Russia to do this. The French general staff thinks that Russia, because of her clumsiness in mobilizing, but especially for lack of tracks leading to the German frontier, will not be able, in a new war with Germany, to bring help to France in time. Russia has now fulfilled Frances wishes in this regard. Thus does the Franco-Russian alliance, which of late seemed to be falling into oblivion, celebrate its resurrection.
In February the Hallesche Zeitung writes: To keep friendship with Russia is one of the chief aims of our foreign policy, but it is sometimes made very hard for us indeed. They keep the peace because it is to the advantage of the czars empire to do so; but they are to be had for every combination directed against Germany. And the Dresdener Nachrichten: The Russian-German relations leave very much to be desired at the moment. The Russian government fails to show the least approachableness in foreign questions and Russian society and the press are in an extremely anti-German mood. Evidences of the same thing are to be seen in their attitude to Austria. The Russian policy lets itself be taken more and more in tow by the French desires, and has nothing but polite speeches left for Germany. The Weser Zeitung finds the explanation of the hostility in Germanys efforts to help the Turks reorganize their army, and declares, Here we have touched one of the weakest spots in Russias world-policy, her endeavor to get to the Mediterranean. The Frnkische Kurier thinks that Russia intends to form a protectorate over the Balkan states as a military weapon against Austria and her allies: The soul of this endeavor is the Russian diplomacy and the Servian minister-president, Pasitsch. The Dresdener Anzeiger observes that the influence of the Pan-Slavist party over the Russian government is steadily growing and that the extraordinary activity in military matters ill suits the constant peace assurances: The measures are pointed against Austria-Hungary.
The Crown Prince and Crown Princess
On March second an article in the Klnische Zeitung aroused great excitement all over Germany. It declared that Russia was not yet in a position to supplement political threats by military action, however much France might rattle with the Russian saber. But in three years all the enormous preparations would be completed, and already it is openly said even in official military periodicals, that Russia is arming for war against Germany. There is no immediate danger, the article continued, but the legend of the historical German-Russian friendship had better be thrown to the dogs.
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