The labor world., 1906-09-01

Africa; Lieutenant Colonel F: Il.
Nathan, R. A., Superintendent royal
gunpowder factory at Woolwich;
Major General Sir e. G. Barrow, K.
c. B., Peshawur, India; His Excel
lency Sir NJ. Nathan, K. c. NJ. G.,
Governor and commander in chief Of
Hong Kong and its dependencies; Col
onel F /. A. Lucas, Colonel D. de Lara
Cohen, w. D.; Lieutenant Colonel e.
Montefiore, Colonel S. L. Mandleberg
and Major C. l. Marks, D. S. o.
1t Is strange that in Austria, where
anti-Semitism is a much stronger po-
litical force than in Germany, He
breWs should be we'll represented in
the army, even In it's highest ranks.
1t is said that there are no less than
two thousand Hebrew officers In the
Emperor Francis Joseph's forces, and
there have ben no less than three gen.
erals during the present decade; ",'7
La General Won Eis Decorated, 1f3c
Most sdistingutahed ofs them, prob.
ably, is General Won Els; q veteran Of
half asdozens sNAmpaignss and m int1s
mates OF the Austrian Kaiser, who per
sonally pinned ION the generals coat
the medal that is the most priced Of
the many he wears. For, conspicu-
GUS and extraordinary valor on the
battlefield" is the inscription upon 1t.
There are General Poppen, a world
famous naval constructor. who has
built several of Austria's warships,
and Brigadier General Edward Ritter
Won Schweitzer. He entered the &C.
tive army as a private, and received
his baptism of fire in the war against
Prussia in 1867 AS commanding off.
Ger of the 26th Infantry Regiment he
twice had the honor of conveying the
good wishes of the regiment to its col
onel in chief, the Grand Duke Michael
Of Russia, and on both occasions high
Russian orders wered conferred upon
him.. Recently he was appointed com
mander of the Fifty-third Infantry Bri
gade. Major General Schweftzer has
remained true to his religion, and has
had his children taught the tenets Of
their faith.
It is a mistake to suppose that there
ore no Hebrew officials in the Ger
man army, for, In addition to fair
number of Hebrew officers on the
active list of the Bavarian army, there
are more than two hundred in the re-
l
very many in the active army and be
, tween 400 and 500 in the reserves.
!, Honored In Turkey.
| A highly hOnored Hebrew officer Il
Elias Pacha, admiral in the Turkish
navy and court physician to the sui
tan. He is also general being the
first Turkish Hebrew to hold the higl
rank. The sultan attached the pachs
to his own person, with the title o.
private physician to his imperial ma
jesty, and fifteen months afterwar(
he was appointed general Of division
hich in the navy corresponds to th'
grade Of vice admiral. In 1888 he wa,
nominated to the faculty Of medicine
with the title Of professor dematology
and in 1894 to the superior sanitar,
commission which was then created
His excellency is decorated with tn
grand cordons of the Mejidie medals
with the Osmanie, with the Imtia
Liakut medals, with the Turko- Gree
medal and with several other orders
He is the colleague and contemporar
of Professors Hirschberg, Israel an,
Fraenkel, Of Berlin.
Freedom in Italy.
In no country in the world is ther
more liberal religious toleratio,
than in Italy. King Humbert appoint
ed the late General Ottolenghi, He
brew as military tutor to his son, an
one of the present kings first act
was to make his former instructor hi
minister of war, the only Hebrey
ever to hold such a position. Otto
length during his life observed the OF
dinances of the Hebrew religion, an
when commanding In Turin not onl
regularly attended the synagogue hin
self, but influenced in the same diree
tion other officers who had up til
then been Hebrews only In name.
1t is estimated that there were fiji
teen thousand Hebrews fighting in tn
Russian army in Manchuria; all o
them patriots and many of them die
for the Tsar. When Hebrews fall II
battle their burial is different from
that which occurs when death result
in other ways. The Talmudic law re
ouires that those who fall in bath