WAR INSTRUCTION

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 August 1934, Page 11

WAR INSTRUCTION

GERMAN PROFESSOR’S, BOOKj ’a [by cabIe— PRESS ASSN."—COPYRIGHT.]’ BERLIN, August 28. Under the Treaty of Versailles, the German Universities are forbidden to give instruction in the use of arms, or to have a connection with any military authority. This is apparently the reason for the anonymity of a. book just published, containing .six lectures that have been delivered in, Berlin under the title, “Education in ■the Spirit of Arms.” The subjects covered include the individual branches of the German Army, the mechanisation of the army, the military significance of transport, and the ■ erritorial defence of frontiers, which included a full description of new* French subterranean frontier fortresses. The anonymous professor points out: “Before the Great War the science of warfare had been reserved to the expert, namely, the soldier; but, just as the soldier is no longer reserved to the narrow military sphere, but has to educate himself in politics and in economics, and so forth, the non-soldier must now bo educated in the spirit of arms. Nor can the women be excluded.” The lecturer stresses the importance of press propaganda, saying that, had the principles of such propaganda been understood, Chancellor Von Rethtnann Holwegg would never have made his unfortunate remark about the “wrong” that was done to Belgium. 'in reference to the use of gas, the lecturer said that Germany had only used it atfer the publication of an article in a London paper announcing chemical warfare. METAL WORKERS’ POLICY. LONDON, August 27. Tho International Metal Workers’ Congress, representing seven hundred thousand men, has unanimously passed a resolution in favour of the disarmament of all nations, and in favour of! tho League of Nations taking into consideration the control, production and export of munitions. It 'also passed a motion in favour of the affiliated organisations concentrating; against. Fascism. Mr. R. Dennison, on behalf of the British delegates, urged that at the moment that war seemed to be inevitable, a congress should be called to consider whether the metal workers should make munitions.