The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-16
GERMAN EXPERTS
 RULING BELGIUM
Noted Subjects of Kaiser Take Charge of War Govern
 ment.

Brussels, Belgium, April .16.- Eermany's administration of the. civil affairs of Belgium presents new picture of the German reserve off, Der.
 The reserve corps of German off, krss always has been the admiration nS tEfs military word No other na- Hea has been able to call out from ed1ciently trained as officers for the vast reserves needed for war But The military training of these men, says the special Correspondence of Inc Chicago News, is only one side pf their qualification. In private life lhey are the learned professi ona1 men of the nation. They are the lawyers. the physicians, the bankers, the engineers, the directors of big enterprises, the scientists who have given to Germany her peculiar in- uustrial efficiency.
 and their shoulder straps and march Dff to the front. But there are
 many things to be done in war be- sides leading armies against the. enemy. Not the least of these is such problem as that of Belgium.
 Here is nation of alien race and tongue. bitterly hostile. with indus tries lyzed-another invading power must not only restore peace and order. but call back to life the crippled 10QuSLr1a1 sOfgan1ZaJlOn. NO merely military organization could do this. It could maintain order, but that is ali. Complex problems of civil administration, or transpor- tation of industry, of municipal control, and the thousand and one 'oF nation of 100000 people are mot to be solved by a. mastery of tactics and strategy or any of the other items of military science.
 And it is here that your reserve 1nicer shines Governor General von Bissing had only to denote the de- 1aands of the work to be done and he had the greatest experts of Ger many at his command. General von Elssing is himself a trained, pro- 1essional soldier. But he has sur-s rounded himself with an adrninistra- might envy. And they have all been detailed by the general staff from the reserve corps, just as they would be detailed to go to the front Many of them were, in fact, recalled from com mands at the front. Some had been wounded and are cOnvaIescing ah this resumption of civil duties.
 All of them display a jealous eagerness that is most inter eating. They work with a tirNless energy Hate in the night. even on Sundays, on one of the biggest tasks the war has brought with it. And they seem to enjoy the work The field Is so big; there is so much to do
 Almost CruelIy Efficient
 Personal influence has disappeared entirely. Personal gain is not even which we shall be proud, said Gen sraI ven Bissing And his assistants have been living up to that motto 1 There is something relentless i'm ] partial and almost cruelty efficient in l this military autocracy. The Bel 1 sian subordinatesvv vvlaos are left are l raced off their feet by tire1ess supe- riors. Belgian citizens who have business to transact suddenly find 1 that influence at court is a thing of the past. There is no favorItisnl here
 A catalogue of the experts who wear military uniforms while 1 they work out Belgian civil prob i 1euls would make American gov ernor jealous. Here is a director of l the reichsbank at BerIin-one of the | greatest financiers of Germany. He | is 2 major of the reserves, but he | hangs his sword on a, cpatrack each 1 morning and goes to work with a | nen- Major von Lumm is now eede- tai1eda as the t'general commissioner task was to reorganize the whole | financial regime of the kingdom, found a new national bank and in- vent a new currency. Mere trifles!
 Starts Ldege to Work Again. s.
 Then there is Captain von Kessel, MEho is member of the Prussian | house of representatives and a fa.- nous authority on municipal govern l ment and social economies. He is l now the adJutant of the military | governor of Liege. Lieutenant i Colonel von Renner. As such he has l worked out the great industrial problems of that big busy city and Each day he finds new way of opening up factory
 zs Probably more interesting is Cap tain Drape. who was director of the gas works of Lueneburg when the war broke out He was wounded at LIege. When Antwerp was taken he was hurried there because the water works had been destroyed in the bcmbardment. In five days he had dug up auxiliary pump in some alton again-a vital matter in a city inc size of Antwerp.
 Then he went to work on the street cars of Antwerp. Tn three days he had them running. The same speed put the gas works and the electrical plant in operation. Tn fourteen days he had nineteen inter- UT ban railroads that center at Ant l verp at work
 man who could wave a magic wand like that deserved bigger field and he was detailed to BrIls- sels to take general supervision over municipal, gas, electrical and street railroad plants in the Kingdom. In cidenta1ly, also, he received the iron cross.
 Big Steamship Chief at Antwerp.
 With Capt Drape there was sent to Antwerp Baron von Piettenberg, a first neutenany Of reserves Tn private life he is managing editor Of the North German Lloyd-a fine training for man whose duty it is to revive the commercial life of the great seaport of Antwerp. He put an emergency mail service into op- etation, with a teIegraphfc auxiliary,