THE MOST IMPORTANT ARMY MANOEUVRES IN GERMAN HISTORY: AN INFANTRY COLUMN MARCHING THROUGH A COUNTRY VILLAGE DURING THE RECENT FIELD OPERATIONS. The annual field operations carried out by the German military authorities this year brought 120,000 men under arms. They have a peculiar interest for British soldiers, for an. effort is at last being made to get the machine-like Gorman soldier, who has only been taught to fight in close formations, to conform to the demands of modern warfare, and advance to the attack in the more open and scattered formations practised by the British army. Wherever it has been attempted, however, preparatory to the Kaiser manoeuvres, it has shown anything but successful results, for the German soldier is before all things a human automaton, and when he finds himself alone and without the immediate direction of a superior, he is completely at a loss. As the Kaiser once said in an address to his army, "The soldier'should not have a will of his own, but all of you should have one will, and that is my will. There exists one law, and that is my law." '' – ' * —Sphere.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14208, 3 November 1909, Page 9

THE MOST IMPORTANT ARMY MANOEUVRES IN GERMAN HISTORY: AN INFANTRY COLUMN MARCHING THROUGH A COUNTRY VILLAGE DURING THE RECENT FIELD OPERATIONS. The annual field operations carried out by the German military authorities this year brought 120,000 men under arms. They have a peculiar interest for British soldiers, for an. effort is at last being made to get the machine-like Gorman soldier, who has only been taught to fight in close formations, to conform to the demands of modern warfare, and advance to the attack in the more open and scattered formations practised by the British army. Wherever it has been attempted, however, preparatory to the Kaiser manoeuvres, it has shown anything but successful results, for the German soldier is before all things a human automaton, and when he finds himself alone and without the immediate direction of a superior, he is completely at a loss. As the Kaiser once said in an address to his army, "The soldier'should not have a will of his own, but all of you should have one will, and that is my will. There exists one law, and that is my law." '' - ' * —Sphere.