COAST. I ARTILLERY JOURNAL, - Air Defense Artillery

PROFESSIONAL NOTES 487
ture and coal mmmg. This recruitment attracts most decidedly all those who
are discounted in their "redeemed" home lands and who are allured by the prospect
of becoming full fledged French citizens within five years.
Frederick the Great described most strikingly how movingly and pathetically
the French can appeal when they need help and the freedom with which they
treat the friend and helper when he has fulfilled his task. Thus the Poles are
baited with all kinds of promises: full protection by French laws as they are enjoyed
by the French people themselves, admission to all special privileges allowed
to persons of other nationalities, claims for Polish interpreters, the use of the
Polish language in judicial transactions and participation in all existing provisions
in France for social welfare such as hospitalization, invalid assistance, care for
dependents, etc. The Poles may establish consumers' associations and banks; for
sixty-five children the state provides Polish schools with Polish teachers, and
such like.
But in spite of all this the Poles are not becoming contented in their new
homes. Dying France is making desperate efforts against the intruders. This
manifests itself instinctively in the so called "belittling formalities" of the bureaucracy.
For this reason many Poles are inclined to leave la Belle France. Fortunate
are those who succeeded in getting a hold in Westphalia. For the majoritythose
too poor to raise the funds to enable them to return home-there remains
only the foreign legion: there are already large Polish cemeteries in Morocco.
Meanwhile, much of the sacrifices incident to modern migration of nations
may be deplored, the advance march of the Slav toward Western Europe goes on.
Even though La Ponge gave expression to the sentiment: "the best we can hope
for is that our children will defend the ground of their fathers against the peaceful
intrusion of our neighbors," there is today no longer any room for hope. An
expert mathematical genius might be able to calculate today the time when France
shall have become a Slav-Mongol-Negroidstate. But with that its mental constitutions
would also be changed. What will the new France of the future do with
the enormous military equipment? Surely the Chinese general Su Tai (320 B. C.)
was right when he said: "Where the powers of a nation are exhausted long walls
and great defensiveworks may well afford an adequate frontier protection."
GE:SERAL
\"0:-; ZWEHL.-The Militiir-Wochenblatt of June 4, 1926, announces
the decease of General von Zwehl of the former German Army who died on
May 26, 1926,in the seventy-fifthyear of his age.
General von Zwehl was, at the beginning of the World War, in command of
the German VII Reserve Corps. He rendered distinguished service on the
German side throughout the entire period of the war. Among special actions to
his credit are the taking by assault the fortified pusition at ~Iaubeuge on September
7, 1914,and by a forced march closing the gap between the I and II German
Armies in their retreat after the battle of the ~Iarne. He also took a
prominent part in the German auack against Verdun.
He is the author of a number of interesting and impurtant works on military
subjects, among the last of which is the life of General von Falkenhayn who
succeeded '-on ~Ioltke as Chief of Staff and Commander in the Field of the
German forces on the west front, in September, 1915. The principal purpuse of
that work was a defense of Yon Falkenhayn for aspersions cast upun him because
he did not succeed in fully making good the debacle of the German Army caused
by the blundering imbecility of the emperor's favorite, Yon 1Ioltke, in the campaign
of the ~Iarne and those immediately following it.