SCIENCE OF WARFARE

Evening Star, Issue 21811, 29 August 1934, Page 7

SCIENCE OF WARFARE

LECTURES IN GERMANY ANONYMOUS PROFESSOR'S BOOK Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigh; BERLIN, August 28. Under the Treaty of Versailles German universities are forbidden to give instruction in the use of arms or have connection with any military authority. This is apparently the reason for the anonymity of a book containing six lectures delivered in Berlin under the title ‘ Education in the Spirit of Arms.’ The subjects covered include individual branches of the German army, mechanisation, the military significance of transport, and territorial defence of the frontier, which includes a full description of the French subterranean frontier fortresses. The anonymous professor points out that before the Great War “ the science of warfare was reserved for the expert —namely, the soldier, but just as the soldier is no longer reserved for a narrow' military sphere—he has to educate himself in politics, economics, and so forth —so must the non-soldier be educated in the spirit of arms.. Nor can women be excluded.” The lecturer stresses the importance of Press propaganda, saying that had the principles of the latter been understood Bethmann-Hollweg would never have made his unfortunate remark about the “wrong” done, to Belgium. In reference to gas he says that Germany only used it after the publication of an article in a London paper announcing chemical warfare.