Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-05-01
lSILENT NOW FOREVER
GERMANY'S GREAT WARRIOR.
COUNT Won MOLTKE, DEAD.
lie Was Honored by the Kings ana
Princes Of the Earth for His WIS.,
dom and Nalor.
Won Moltke Dead.

The death of Field Marshal Count Won
Moltke at Berlin has just been announced.
| Count Won Moltkc attended the session OF
! the Reichstag held Friday afternoon. HIS
death was very sudden and the physicians
! who were summoned announced that IT
was caused by the failure of the heart. He
| died ut 9:ij p. m, passing away qaleuy
and painlessly.
Count Hellmuth Won Holtke, chief mar
| shall OF the German Empire. and chief or
| the general staff. was the descendant oil "a
well known Mecklenburg family. lie was
| born at Parchim, October %, 1900 in the
neghborhood of which place his father, "a
| former officer of the Mollendorf regiment,
| possessed the estate Of Gnewiz Soon
after Hellmuth's birth his parents settled
down in Holstein, and the boy in his l3th
| year went TO Copenhagen in order TO deyote
| himself in the barracks there, TO the mill
tary profession. In lS22 he entered the
| Prussian service as a lieutenant in the
| Eighth infantry regiment. and studied in
| the military academy. The war had
nearly ruined his parents, ard the
young officer WIS thrown entirely upon his
own resources After having spent some
time in the school cf Division of Frankfort
on-the Oder Moltke vas entered into the
| general staff. In 1885 he undertook tour
in Turkey. which brought him under the
notice Of the Sultan Mahmoud. who advis-
ed with the young Prussian officer in the
| reorganization of the Turkish army. Moltkc
remained several years in Turkey. and in
| 1889 took part in the campaign Of the I urks
| in Syria against the Viceroy MOhemed Ali
OF Egypt and his adopted son. lbrahim
| Pasha. In 1S45. having returned to Prus-
| STA and published an account of his Turkish
| experiences, he became adjutant 10 Prince
| Henry of Prussia. then resident in Rome,
and after his death in 1917 was engaged in
connection with the general command on
| the Rhine. becoming. in iS4S, member OF
! the grand general STAFF of the Prussian
army, aud in 1859 became lieutenant
| general. In the Austro-Italian war Moltkc
was present in the Austrian headquarters.
After the conclusion of peace he spared no
pains that he might fully develop the ca
pacities of the Prussian general staff and
| the Prussian army. When the war Of | S64
| against Denmark broke out Moltke
sketched the plan OF the campaign and as
sisted in its execution. acting similarly in
the case Of the war of 1866. The whole
plan of the Bohemian campaign was due TO
the lieutenant general, who was personally
present at the battle of KoniggraD, which
ne lea, anu IN IKE mdnheF dFFhnBtu IHc
bold advance Of the Prussian columns
against Olmuu and Vienna. and negotiated
the armistice and the prelimnaries Of
peace. For'these services he received the
order Of the Black Eagle and national
devotion. To Father Moltke' Water
Moltke), as he is Familiarity called in the
Germany army, and his splendid strategy
are ascribed the splendid victories of the
German armies in the Frauco-German
war. He was practically the commander
in-chief. The whole plan Of the campaign
was due 10 him. In recognition of his
unrivaled services Moltke was made
the Chief Marshal of the German Empire
(September. 1s11) and was created count
in 1872. He received from the Car the
Order of 1t. George, the highest military
decoration Of Russia in October, 1870, and
from his own sovereign the Grand Cross
of the Order of the Iron Cross March -,
1871.