The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-04-26
Incidents of Won Moltke's Career.

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Incidents of Won Moltke's Career.
Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch
| NEW YORK, April 25.-Von Moltke's con
nection with oriental military affairs was
purely accidental. He sought to spend
three weeks in Constantinople and some
months IN the study of Grecian antiqui-
ties, returning by Naples and Rome. He
returned after four years. absence without
having seen Greece or Italy The all
powerful Leraskier Mahemed Chosref
Pacha, fascinated with the clearness and
charm OF Moltke's conversation, obtained
| permission to utilize his services and set
him to reorganize the Turkish army on the
RUSSIAN system, while the Sultan com
mlssioned him to inspect the Notifications
| OF the Dardenelles and test their guns: to
examine the newly built fortress of Varna
to prepare map of the Dardanelles, the
Bosphorus and the capital, and to construct
! palaces, bridges, reservoirs and waterworks.
A Turkish army under Hatse Pacha had
Deen placed on the frontiers of Asia Minor
normally to quell the revolving Kurds.
though the pretext had not deceived the
Egyptian ruler who dispatched reinforce
ments to Syria With this Turkish army
Mahemed dispatched Moltke and his
couutryman, Muhlbach. In the work of
exploring and mapping the country Moltke
was tlreless and enterprising On one
occasion he rode over seven hundred and
sixty miles of wild and barbarous country
without an escort. During this journey he
encountered feroclous Turk whose deeds
at the massacre of the Janizaries had
earned for him the sobriquet of "Black
Hell, and so impressed him by entering
the guest chamber, making his servant
take OH his boots and seating himself in the
place OF honor before he saluted his host,
that the hey is Modified, entertains him
royalty and sends him On his way with
fresh horses.
German history-Bismarck in time of
peace, Moltke in time of war; The chief of
! statf's omnipotence was even greater than
that of the chancellor in peace. William at
times resented or resisted Bismarck, 8
action. But when once q serene and illus
trious highness went to him to ask for a
detachment of cavalry, the King pointed to
his field marshal. "That man," he said,
''disposes of every German soldier in the
field, and 1 am thankful to him for leaving
me my body guard"
Moltke prepared his plans for the French
campaign in 1871, covering all the contin-
gencles of South Germany to aid neutrality
or hostility. The transportation and con-
centration OF the troops were what he in
sisted was most essential. AS REGARDS
strategy, we will soon clash with the indie
pendent will of our opponent upon which
limits can be put by @ well timed and de-
termined Initiative, but he is only to be
overcome by actual combat. No plan of
operations can with any certainty reach
beyond the first encounter with the main
body OF the enemy. Political and geo.
graphical motives have to be taken into
consideration in the first movement
On the 10th of August was fought the
severe actions of Vionville and Mars -le-
Tour, in which the French lost ,0C0 men,
the Germans 1900, the latter gaining the
| coveted road which further checked
Bazaine's retreat. An incident little re-
mcmbered in this bloody fight was the de-
Hberate repetition, on a large scale, of the
Balaklava charge, Credow's cavalry being
| hurled against the French batteries, which
were Furnishing the infantry beyond en-
durance and almost silencing their fire,
though at fearful loss. The two latter
took place at the final fight of Grayelotte.
Until evening, the French, fighting on the
defensive, held their own, but under the
stress of the German artillery fire and the
second army corps thanking attack, the
right wing was broken and driven into
Metz. "Your majesty, we have conquered, "
painted Moltke, as be hurried up
late at night to where the King
was sitting on seat extemporizing
from a ladder supported at the end by a
dead horse and platform scale, and with a
''hurrah' the party fell to banquet of
brown bread. They had conquered, for
| next morning Bazaine had withdrawn all
his forces from before Metz.
| Bismarck has told humorously how, when
the Spanish question came up in 1870.
Moltke looked at once ten years younger.
when 1 told him Prince Hohenzollern
had given the thing up he became all at
| once quite old and worn looking, but when
the French made difficulties he was fresh
and young again immediately"
An English friend who called on the chief
of staff on the day war was declared with
France, said he would make his visit short
as his host must be occupied busily. II
have nothing to do" was the reply, ''all is
done"
Concerning the British army Won Moltke
said the purchase feature was the best of
its features, and concerning our own war.
that he did not consider the movement of
armed mobs worth studying, though in
point of fact he had studied the lessons of
our civil war. His modesty was unaf-
fected. 81 should have been out of place. ~
he said to painter once who depicted him
encouraging the charge of cavalry at
Grayeiotte, Heading soldiers in the pres
ence of an officer whose duty it was to
command them"
AT Kreisair he undertook the manage
ment of the civil registry for his district.
In Berlin he was the active president of
the Oberlin Verein for the education of for
saken children. When past forty he won
the love of a handsome and clever English
girl of sixteen, who conceived passion for
him through hearing her stepmother, his
sister, read his letters from the east Their
first love continued to the last. Her death
was the one great grief of his life, and in
his old age his favorite resort, especially in
the grey of the evening, was her tomb
where under a clump Of cypress, an ex-
quisitely carved Christ stretched it's snowy
marble hands in benediction over the bier
inscribed, "Love is the fulfilling of the
law"