And every officer's place in the scheme is laid out beforehand.

There is a schedule of trains which will supersede all other schedules the moment war is declared, and this is so arranged that the commander of the army here could telegraph to any officer to take such a train and go to such a place at a moment's notice.

When the Franco-Prussian War was declared, Von Moltke was awakened at midnight and told of the fact.

He said coolly to the official who aroused him, 'Go to pigeonhole No.

---- in my safe and take a paper from it and telegraph as there directed to the different troops of the empire.' He then turned over and went to sleep and awoke at his usual hour in the morning.