FRENCH ANTI-MILITARISM
Violent protests have been made in France against the Bill providing for three years' service in the army. It is alleged that the army itself is saturated with Socialism, syndicalism, and anarchy, which must be a very disquieting condition for the armament firms. The Manuel dv Soldat, which the authorities are trying to suppress, cays : "It is for this word that we are shut up for three years of military service ; that we are made slaves, perhaps murderers, or the victims of the brutality of the epaulet, for our officers are brutes, and the best officers the worst brutes. The whole army is a school of crime, vice, laziness, hypocrisy, and cowardice. Better for the soldier to desert than to put up with the insults and punishments which await him while he wears the livery, of. slavery and
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 13
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140FRENCH ANTI-MILITARISM Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 53, 30 August 1913, Page 13
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