A RESULT OF THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 113, 9 November 1917, Page 7

A RESULT OF THE WAR

GERMAN GENERAL'S VIEW BIGGER ARMAMENTS THAN EVER (SEOTER'a TELEGRAM.) LONDON, 7th November. ' A remarkable book, entitled "Deductions from the Great War," by the Prussian General Baron yon Freytag Loring-' hoven, former Quartermaster-General, and now Deputy-Chief of the General Staff, has reached England. The writer is considered a .moderate thinker amon°Prussian militarists, hence his views are more illuminating. Yon Freytag shows that the moat intelligent German military leaders utterly reject the ideas of pacifism or internationalism. They regard the present war as showing that Germany must have a bigger navy, a. bigger army, and far greater quantities of munitions for tho'"next war.

He proceeds : "It may bo asked: What will bo the use of all this? Will not the general exhaustion of Europe after this world conflagration put the danger of a new war in the background a-nd • pave the way to disarmament and permanent peace? The answer is that nobody can guarantee a long period of peace," and lasting peace can be guaranteed only by strong armaments. Moreover, world power is inconceivable without striving for the expression of power in tha world, and for sea power, but that would involve the constant existence of a large number of points of friction, hence the necessity :■—• adequate armaments on land and sia."

Yon Freytag expects that the result of this war will be that agreements to banish war will be concluded between States, but all such agreements, after all, will be only treaties. He hopes that the present war will rid Germany once for all of her confused cosmopolitan sentimentalism.