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OFFICER Resigns From Army;
Writes Sensational Book.
toUR LONDON LITERARY LETTER. =.

Special Correspond
T ONION, April 20--ContaIned in
the last newspapers to hand from
Vienna arc lengthy extracts from
q new work written by an Aus
titan officer ON the lines " In 4 Lit
tie Garrison Town, which might have
attracted almost us much attention
as Bilse's book. had not tho German
lieutenant been first IN the Held. The
later work, which processes To expose
the existence Of Wholesale corruption
lu the army OF The Dual Monarchy Is
called, In *. und H. Diensten," and
has the subtitle, Pictures Of Mill
tary Morals from Austrian Garrisons,"
It's author however has avoided %
punishment similar TO that suffered by
Bllse-and incidentally forcgonc the
pecunlary rewards of such martyrdOm
for, bfore publishing his volume, he
threw up his commission. lie writes
anonymously, but Is said TO be pro-
mlnent figure IN the Austrian sporting
world. AZ any rate. his criticisms on
what he alleges Is the present state
OF the Austrian army are drastic and
II IL thought In Vienna that the hook
cannot be ignored By the powers that
bc, The scene of In X. und X. Diem
ten Is laid In the garrison towns of
i, (Prague) X. 0<mcow) and Pre-
PrczemyoO, the latter Of which Is
described as the most corrupt of all
The writer says that the regiment IN
which he served was commanded by a
Col SrechWitzer, nicknamed stupid
DOWidl' who, he declares. mounted his
horse no moro than 10 times In year
This officers lectures are described by
the author as helpless stammeriugs 81
and he declares that his rank OF gem
eral was obtained entirely by trucking
ard lick-spittllng, The lieutenant
colonel of the regiment IL said 10 be-
the p0ssessOr Of several orders but alb.
sOlntely incompetent For years. says
the author, he used his position TO EN-
hezzle moneys intrusted to him. be-
ing abetted I'm this easy means of earn.
ing living by his adjutant, Lieut.
Malicek, who, however himself head
over heels IN debt, finally began rob.
bling his superior officer At last the
lieutenant colonel reyenged himself by
reporting the adjntant, who was sen.
fenced tu Ave years imprisonment and
degradation. The lectures delivered b
the major OF the regiment were. says
the writer, such monuments of inca
pacty that he finally had to ask the
captain not to correct him before the
younger officers, Enraged at this hu.
initiation. however, he vented his spite
by ordering horseback exercises 10 be
held in the open air--instead OF IN the
riding school-the thermometer mt the
time registering below zero, and by or.
der!ng the reglmental doctor TO reject
all cases Of sickness in connection with
the riding school. until not n man Of
them was left" The book is filled, also,
with accusations OF cruelty on the
part of the officers toward the men
under them. Concerning the work the
Vienna "Arbeiter Zeitung," says, IN
how far these occurrences, admitting
their accuracy can be regarded as
typical ~ the whole army we would
not llNe 10 decide II the corps Of Of.
ilcers were TO have but 10 per cent
solution OF this putrld pus I'm fits ven.
cradle body, We should have TO de-
scribe II as completely diseased and
morally poisoned. VIII Herr V. Pr
treich (war MINISTRY be able 10 re-
fute the suspicion OF disease
Although the United Services college
al Westward Ho' has graduated over
1000 pupils since It's establishment In
1874, public interest IN the place has
been keenest--snce It's doom az a school
was sounded rccently--as Rudyard KIP