Not only is our great army mobilized,
but the whole folk is mobilized, and the distribution of labor, the food
question and the care of the sick and wounded are all being provided
for. The whole German folk has become a gigantic war camp, all are
mobilized to protect Kaiser, Folk and Fatherland, as the closing report
of the Reichstag put it. And all Germany pays the tribute of a salute to
the chiefs of the army and navy, who work with deeds, not words.
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ARMY AND NAVY.
The German Army and Navy on the watch--Four million German men in the
field--Thousands of volunteers join the colors to fight for Germany's
existence, among them the flower of her scientific and artistic life.
There can be no greater contrast than that between the United States and
Germany in one of the most important questions of existence with which a
State is confronted. In its whole history the United States has never
had a foreign hostile force of invaders upon its territory, foreign
armies have never laid waste its fields. Until late in the last century,
however, Germany was the battlefield for the then most powerful nations
of Europe. The numerous German States and provinces, too, fought among
themselves, often on behalf of foreign powers.
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