THE SPIRIT OF ARMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22353, 29 August 1934, Page 9

THE SPIRIT OF ARMS

t LECTURES IN BERLIN INSTRUCTION FOR STUDENTS t.': ’ 5 ' - BERLIN, Allgust '2B. ; (Received August 28, at 11 p;m.) ; 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 iff, the Spirit of Arms.” The, '.subjects covered ’ include individual, brandies of the German Army, mechanthe. military, significance 'of . transport, and territorial defence of the frontier, which included 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, - nffmely,. the soldier, but • just as the soldier is no longer reserved for a narrow military sphere—he has to educate himself iii politics, economics and so forth—so must the non-soldier be edn-'. cated 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 Bothmann Hollwegg would never'have made his unfortunate remark about - the “ wrong ’’ done to Belgium. ; In reference to ?as lie says that Germany only used it after thd publication of an article in a London paper announcing chcniical warfare.