The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-11-27
WAR MAKES LRMY
lDF KAISER HUMANE.
Iron Discipline and Caste Spirit
Which Divides officers From
Men Disappearing

BERLIN, November Correspond.
ence Of The Associated Press) The
German army is very human institu.
tion just now. The iron discipline Of
the barracks and the caste spirit which
divides the officer from the rank md
iile are not so much in evidence.
In one OF The better restaurants Of
Berlin sat two officers Of the line. The
worn look Of the feld-gray uniform Of
one showed that be had seen service
That the other had been at the front
was made clear by bapdage over his
head.
Following an animated recital the Of.
ficer in the worn uniform picked mp a
bundle which had lain beside him on
the table and proceeded to unwrap six
inouthorgans.
You see, /" he said to his Gonzales
cent companion. ''life in the trenches
and there will be much of IL, ] fear
lis rather slow. There are several men
in my company who can play these
things and am taking these back TO
them. A little music helps them pass
the time and keeps them in good humor,
Good Fellowship in Line
81 gave my captain Eve boiled pota-
toes and the half of salt herring the
other day and he told me he apprc-
eiated 1t, = said private when asked
to explain to what extent life in the
barracks resembled life in the firing
line
To the remark that hunger comes TO
al men regardless of station in life,
the private commented:
~" That is so, of course, but the officer
did not have to thank me for II. = It
would have served no purpose 20 argue
this point with the man, so another
question was asked. ess SsW
"This is the time when everybody
must do his duty, = replied the man,
and then added slowly and with EN-
phasis, "and that duty right now seems
to be the same for all alike-everybody
within his place, Of course The officer
is as likely to be shot as we are. and
sometimes more so, and that, believe,
evens things up considerably. =
Democracy Of Death
"a sort of democracy of DEATH
suggested the interviewer M
But the word 'slemocracyl is in Ger.
many principally associated with the
SIS social democrats the German so
cialist party, For that reason the pri.
waite had nothing more to say. 4,
II Is as difficult to interview a Ger
man private as it is to get information
from one of the few officers who in;
habit the large rambling general stat
building across the Reichstag building
1t seems to be as much the duty Of the
soldiers to. be silent as to fight. sa
There is no doubt that the German
army. in the field .isya more liberal i'm
stitntian than, the GERMAN army in the
barracks. One reads almost daily Of
men carrying their officers to the dress,
ing station behind the trench or firing
line, and Of officers who after the fight
ing is over make frantic effort to sue,
cor their wounded men. Letters which
speak of officers dividing their parcels
from home with their men have ceased
to be a novelty. M la m.
Three Set Iron Cross
On the whole it Is a rare thing for o.
German private TO get the iron Gross
of the second and first classes together,
so FAR there are three cases: Infantrist
Maprer Silber of. Querfurth, Reserve
Corporal Carl Frank Of Sinshein, and
Infantrist Henry Mueller of Geeste'
mlende, the latter also earning promo;
tiOn to sergeant. ~
Mueller serves with mnchine'gpn
section. In recent engagement the
crew Of the section was shot down
Mueller alone escaping. Instead tof
seeking cover Mueller carried his
wounded corporal into safe place be;
hind the firing line, and then returned
to the machine gun, which he began to
work with such efficiency that with q
few moments he had killed and wound
ed nearly all the men in two of the
enemy's trenches. a.. sgt