The Cordova daily times., 1916-07-05

ton of five officer aviators stationed at Adrianople.
 The Ottoman forces opo aiingI against the Aussians in Asia Minor had a greater complement of Geri nan officers, about fifty In ell. In tbeI operation against the sneI canal. in the winter of 1914-15, elshtceu Ger man officers participated, mos: of them being on the staff of Dielnal Pasha, commander of the troops :nI Palestine. Syria and the desert, With the Ottoman troops in Arabia LD Ger mans have served.
 In the coast defense organization of the Dardanelles German officers were also active Most of them came from the reserves of the German navy. Though the service, resembling in the main the coast defense troops of the United States in organization, was headed by Djemal Pasha, the man ac- tually in command was Great Ad- miral von Usedom Pasha, a close friend of the German emperor. Von Usedom was assisted by Admiral and General Mertens Pasha, who acted as inspector general of coast defenses. In the various Dardanelles batteries served the following German officers: Colonels Wehrle, Nicolai and Wassid- To; Majors Herschel and Schneider; seven captains, among them Prince Henry of Reuss. and about a score of first lieutenants, most of the latter being reserve officers from the Ger ma merchant marine. In addition to these about 24O German non-commis- stoned officers and men manned guns in the Dardanelles forts, the ma tority of them being stationed in Fort Hamidieh, two kilometers south of Tchanak Kale.
 It may be stated here that Fort Hamidieh was the only point entirely in control of the Germans. It's gun crews were mixed, German and Turk ish artillerymen serving together, gunners or pointers being Germans from the coast works along the Ger man North sea and Baltic coasts and the German navy. All other forts and batteries were manned and command ed by the Turks, the only Germans present being in charge of the means of communication. This is true of the works known as Niagara, Kildir Bahr, Dardanos and Erenoki. The battery at In Tepe Rum Kale also had few German officers and men. After the two last named forts had been silenced by the allied fleet, on February 20, the personnel, minus Lieutenant Woermann and three men, who were killed, was brought to Fort Hamidieh.
 About forty German officers are connected with the supply and line of communication service of the Otto man troops. Some twenty of these act as base commanders at European and Asiatic points: Adrianople, Us unkoeprue, Kasha nand Ackbash in Europe; Ismid, Konia, Eregli, Bosan- ti, Adana, Allepo. Rodjo. Damascus, Jerusalem and Fl Arish in Asia There were also employed sixteen officers of German engineers at road building in European Turkey and Anatolio and Syria.
 On the Ottoman general staff in Stamboul serve the following Ger man officers: Colonel Bronsard von Schellendorf, Majors Fischer and Yon- sen, seven captains and five first lieu tenants. The German communication officers quartered on the steamer General, in the Golden Horn at Con- stantinople, number fourteen. In the Ottoman navy serve, beside Admiral suchon, the officers and crews of the German naval vessels Goeben and Breslau, Lieutenants Wellmann and Goertz and six other officers.
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