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Title: Germany's fighting machine; her army, her navy, her air-ships, and why she arrayed them against the allied powers of Europe
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
Subjects: Germany. Heer Germany. Kriegsmarine World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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h enemies on either side, Japan for herbumptious self-assertion. It is the twilight of the gods. Is Germany the Wal-halla that is to fall in ruins? Or is she merely about tobuild a Walhalla that shall project over all other politi-cal edifices? The moment is a serious one for us Amer-icans. Where shall we stand in the new order of things ?Will a Japan that has conquered a China, a Russia anda Germany submit to American exclusion acts? Herfleet already outnumbers ours in ships of all types ex-cept ships of the line, and her naval appropriations areprogressing more steadily than our own. And whenJapan secures what she wishes from us, China will beready to make the same demands. It is a far cry sinceAustria interpreted the five vowels in her favor: AllesErdreich ist Osterreich unterthan (all earthly kingdomsare subject to Austria). Which will be the next world-power? THE END
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Kaiser Wilhelm II GERMANYSFIGHTING MACHINE Her Army, Her Navy, Her Ab-skips, and Why She Arrayed Them Agamst the Allied Powers of Europe Bv ERNEST F. HENDERSON A idhor of Shout History of Germany HiSTORT OF Germany in the Middle Ages Blucher, Etc., Etc. WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 11)14The Bobbs-Merrill Company /t-.^ CHARr.LS FRANCIS PRESS, NEW YORK OCT 26 1914 ©aA388039 GERMANYS FIGHTING MACHINE GERMANYSFIGHTING MACHINE PART I THE WAR Rut a few weeks ago the author of this little bookwas in Germany studying the land and its institutionsand full of admiration for its achievements in everyfield. Two days after he had taken ship for AmericaGermany was practically at war with France and Rus-sia. England soon joined in the conflict, and the splen-did Hamburg liner on which the author was a passengerwas a hunted thing on the ocean, owing her safety atlast to a friendly fog. The great shipping company,with its nearly two hundred vessegermanysfighting00hend

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