27 JUNE 1874, Page 3

Herr von Gynicki, a distinguished member of the German General

Staff, has been lecturing to a conference of officers at Berlin upon the condition of the German Army. We cannot, of course, condense his lecture, reprinted almost textually in the Standard of Tuesday, but his general conclusions are noteworthy. He says France cannot now bring an army into the field fit to oppose the German Army, but by the spring of 1877 she will have an organisation able to place on foot 740,000 men, with all necessary materiel, with sufficient rapidity. It is remarkable that Herr von Gynicki admits a talent for organisation as evident in the French character, and demonstrable from the second half of the war. In other words, Gambetta is an organiser.