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REAL STRENGTH
IN TMET
CONSTANTINOPLE. June 20. —
(Correspondence of the Associated
Press.) — For the first time since the
war began the full facts are now made
known as to the number, and nature
of service, of the German officers and
men in the Ottoman army. At the
present time .360 officers, and 1,867
non-commissioned officers and men
of Herman origin are serving with the
Turkish army, navy and coast defense
system.
Of this number 253 officers and 517
non-commissioned officers are at
tached to the mobile army and in
terior fortifications; while 107 offi
cers and 1,350 non-commissioned of
ficers and men serve in the Ottoman
navy and coast batteries.
Nearly all the German officers and
men in the Ottoman army reached
Turkey early in 1916, by way of Rou
tnania and Bulgaria, while the Ger
man members of the Ottoman navy
come largely from the German battle
cruiser Goeben and the small cruiser
Breslau, and from Oerman merchant
vessels interned at Constantinople
when the war broke out. Some of
them came to Turkey over the Balkan
route during 1916 and during the pre
sent year.
All of them have been “loaned’’ to
the Turkish government, that is to
say, while they actually enter the
military service of the Sultan they
never lose their German citizenship
or divest themselves of the obligation
to serve in the German army.
rpbr. mmlniiu < v t tVin ('ortnon noconn
nel of the Ottoman army was the Ger
man military mission under Liman
von Sanders I'asha, which went to
Turkey after the Balkan war, 1912,
and succeeded the mission headed by
the late Field Marshal von der Goltz
I’asha. The mission was increased
first In December, 1914, when Turkey
entered the European war. Since
then it has grown to the proportions
given above, Technically every Ger
man soldier entering the Ottoman
military service becomes a member
of the mission. His standing 1h no
other at any time, though Germans
born in Turkey may become actual
members of the Turkish army. Their
number is small, however, most of
them serving as interpreters.
Until the allies landed on Gallipoli,
Jhe duties of the German military mis
sion consisted entirely of reorganiza
tion. Up to that time its members
had been occupied putting the Otto
man army on a new basis in tactical
and administrative matters. When
the campaign on Gallipoli commenced,
the Turkish government was obliged
to put the head of the mission, Field
Marshal Liman von Sanders Pasha,
in command of the Gallipoli army,
composed of parts of the Third and
Fifth armies of the Ottoman army,
eight divisions in all.
The number of Germans with the
Gallipoli forces, was small at any
time. Besides Sanders Pasha, there
were on the peninsula for a time Gen
eral Weber Pasha, commander of the
South or Sedd el Bahr group, who
succeeded Col. von Sodenstern; Col.
rvaiiucugtcoo^it —
farta sector; Lieut.-Col. Wilmers Bey,
commander of the Eleventh division,
then stationed north of Suvla bay;
Major Muhlman, on Weber’s staff;
•Major E. It. Prlgge, who acted as Li
man von Sanders' chief of staff; two
German artillery captains, one cap
tain of engineers, six first lieutenants,
one of them being von Habenau, only
German officer taken by British, five
second lieutenants, four supply offi
cers of the German reserve, seven
army surgeons, two officers of the
field Intelligence and communication
service, and two aviators. To these
must be added a German captain of
cavalry, Klttmelster von Wester
hagen, who had been In the banking
business in Wall Street. Von Wester
hagen did not remain long on the pen
insula, leaving for Anatolia with We
ber Pasha when that general was re
placed at Sedd el Bahr by Wehib
Pasha in July.
With the Anatolian army about the
same number of German officers
served. Weber Pasha, who has al
ready been named, was the highest
officer of German origin. There were
three colonels of artillery, Blnhold,
Schlerholtz and Effnert, besides four
teen field officers, moat of them at
tached to the artillery arm and the
technical troop*. With this force also
served five German array surgeons.
The second Ottoman or European
army was in command of Field Mar
shal von der Golt* Pasha. Outside of
the staff officers of the German
pasha, no German officers were at
tached to hia force; with the eacep
tlon of five officer aviator* stationed
at Adrlanople.
The Ottoman forces opening
against the Au**ian* in Asia Minor
had a greater complement of lien tan
officers, about fifty in nil. 'n ibe
operation against the Sues canal, in
the winter of 19M-15, el'jhteei. Ger
man officers participated, tost of
them being on the staff of Djemal
Pasha, commander of She troop* in
Palestine, Syria and the desert. With
the Ottoman troops In Arabia r. i Gee
mans have served.
In the coast defense organization of
the Dardanelles German officers were
also active. Most of them catne from
the reserves of the German navy.
Though the service, resembling In the i
main the coast defense troops of the
United States in organization, was
headed by Djemal Pasha, the man ac
tually In command was Great Ad
miral von Usedom Pasha, a close
friend of the German emperor. Von
Usedom was assisted by Admiral and
General Mertens Pasha, who acted as
Inspector general of coast defenses.
In the various Dardanelles batteries
served the following German officers:
Colonels Wehrle, Nicolai and Wassld
lo; Majors Herschel and Schneider;
seven captains, among them Prince
Henry of Reuss, and about a score of
first lieutenants, most of the latter
being reserve officers from the Ger
ma nmerchant marine. In addition to
these about 240 German non-commis
sioned officers and men manned
guns in the Dardanelles forts, the ma
jority of them being stationed in Fort
Hamidieh, two kilometers south of
Tchanak Kale.
It may be stated here that Fort
Hamidieh was the only point entirely
in control of the Germans. Its gun
crews were mixed, German and Turk
ish artillerymen serving together,
gunners or pointers being Germans
from the coast works along the Ger
man North sea and Daltic coasts and
the German navy. All other forts and
batteries were manned ana commanu
ed by the Turks, the only Germans
present being In charge of the means
of communication. This Is true of
the works known as Nagara, Kildir
Bahr, Dardanos and Erenoki. The
battery at In Tepe Kum Kale also
had a few German officers and men.
After the two last named forts had
been silenced by the allied fleet, on
February 20, the personnel, minus'
Lieutenant Woermann and three men,
•who were killed, was brought to Fort
Hamldieh.
About forty German officers are
connected with the suply and line of
communication service of the Otto
man troops. Some twenty of these
act as base commanders at European
and Asiatic points: Adrianople. Us
unkoeprue. Kasha nand Ackbash in
Europe; Ismid, Konla, Eregll, Bosan
ti, Adana, Allepo, Rodjo, Damascus,
Jerusalem and El Arish in Asia. There
were also employed sixteen officers
of German engineers at road building
in European Turkey and Anatolio and
Syria.
On the Ottoman general staff in
Stamboul serve the following Ger
man officers: Colonel Bronsard von
Schellendorf, Majors Fischer and Yon
sen, seven captains and five first lieu
tenants. The German comunicatlon
officers quartered on the steamer
General, in the Golden Horn at Con
stantinople, number fourteen. In the
Ottoman navy serve, beside Admiral
Suchon, the officers and crews of the
German naval vessels Goeben and
Breslau, Lieutenants Wellmann and
Goertz and six other officers.
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BRITISH FAVOR
. RECIPROCAL
TRADE
LONDON, June 26. — (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) — The
London Chamber of Commerce at a
recent special meeting adopted reso
lutions favoring reciprocal trading re
lations between the British empire and
allied countries after the war; prefer
ential reciprocal trading relations be
tween all partB of the British empire;
favorable treatment of neutral na
tions; regulation by tariff or other
wise of trade relations with all “enemy
countries” to render impossible a re
turn of pre-war conditions, and for
stimulating the development of home
manufactures and the consequent In
creased employment of native labor:
and that steps should be token to pre
vent dumping (and under valuation)
of “enemy goods" into British mar
kets after the war.
It was suggested tlfht a tentative
tariff for five years on an ad valorem
basis might be applied, subject to ne
gotiations with all parties concerned
for the settlement of a scientific tariff
with specific duties, if the latter
should eventually be considered pre
ferable. The Dominions should, how
ever, be left free to determine their
fiscal relation* with allied neutral and ,
"enemy" countries unless it were
agreed that the borne and dominion
governments should act together In
the negotiation*. After consultation
with various Interests a committee
drew up a tentative tariff, the duties
under which vary from 30 per cent
maximum to 10 per cent maximum, ad
valorem, for wholly manufactured
goods, to five per cent maximum on
raw foodstuffs (some being admitted
free). Raw materials would be ex
empt from duty. Alcoholic drinks, to
bacco and other articles now subject
to duties would bear an extra fifty
per cent when Imported from enemy
countries, and a substantial duty
would be Imposed on Merman and!
Austrian mineral waters.
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