Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1914 — GERMANY IS ALWAYS READY [ARTICLE]

GERMANY IS ALWAYS READY

Chicago Man Relates an Incident llluatrating Germany's Preparedness for War.

Chicago.—Much has been said about the preparedness of the Germans for war. A Chicago man related this incident: More than two years ago a subordinate German officer of the army was showing an American some things about the German way of being always ready to mobolize. They came upon an army wagon fully loaded. Horseshoes were dangling from beneath the wagon. “Where are your horses?” asked the American. “For this particular wagon,” replied the German, “one of the horses is at John Smith’s farm, the other at the farm of John Jones. The shoes that you see here have been fitted to those two horses.”