OLD OFFICER'S IDEAL.
LOYAL, BUT QUITE IMPOSSIBLE. BERLIN, January 31. During the discussion of the military Estimates in the Reichstag, Herr Yon Oldenburg, an ex-cavalry officer, who deprecated a public discussion on army details as inimical to discipline, raised a storm by remarking that the Kaiser must be able to say to any lieutenant, "Take ten men and shut the Reichstag." The Vice-President, replying to Socialist protests, interpreted the remark as implying only that a soldier must obey to the uttermost his war lord's command. Herr Oldenburg assented to this interpretation, but several of the deputies contended that the Reichstag had been insulted.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 27, 1 February 1910, Page 5
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103OLD OFFICER'S IDEAL. Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 27, 1 February 1910, Page 5
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