The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-20
Less Than Iwenty-three Hun
dred Officers and Men Of Teu-
ton Origin Are Now Wearing
Uniform ofthe Turkish Empire
MERELY LOANED BY KAISER
sT0AsSIST coNSTANTlNoPLE
AustianS Send Help In Shape
Of Batteries Of Heavy Guns
With Their Fun Complement
ofsthe officers and Gunners
iBy The Associated Press.)

nF-.dny Iuor fASSOClSVCu TTtbb.l
~ oNsTANTINoPLE, June l7.-For
Il the'frst time since the war began
The fun facts are now made
known rs 10 the number, and nature
of service, Of the German officers and
men in the. Ottoman Army. At the
present time 800 officers, and 1867 non.
commissioned officers are attached to
the mobile, army and interior fortif,
cations; while lO7 officers. and 1850
non-eGmmissiUn rd officers and men serve
in the, Ottoman navy and the coast bat
teries.
Nearly all tho German officers and
men jp the Ottoman army reached Tur.
key early in 1915. by way Of Rumanin
and Bulgaja, while the German mem.
befs Of the Ottoman navy come largely
from the German ,battln-eFuiser "GOe.
ben " md the small erniser s. Bresiau "
and FROM GeTman merchant vessels in,
termed nj C0pstautinople when the war
broke out. Some Of them came to Tur,
key oyer the Balkan route during 1915.
and during the present year
Loaned To Ottoman 49,.
An Of them have been Cleaned -
70 the Turkish government that is ia
say while they actually enter the mill,
tary service Of the SULTAN they never
lose their German citizenship or divest
themselves of the obligation to serve
in the German army.
The nucleus Of the German personnel
OF the Ottoman army was the German
military mission under Liman Won San.
ders Pnsha, which went TO Turkey af.
ter the Balkan war, 1919, and succeed.
ed the mission headed by the ldte Field
MayAhal Won der Goltz Pasha. The
mission was increased first in December
1914, when Turkey entered the Europe,
an Eah Since then " has grown to the
ptopoEtinnk. given ahoyeeF7E 80, -. 49, . .
Austfians Also Serve -. g. 80.
There are in Turkey at this time the
officers and men of several Austro, Hun,
garian heavy batteries. These, however,
do not form an intrinsic part Of the OF,
toman army in the sense the Germans
do. In that case the organization has
been loaned for a specific time and pur
pose. Austro Hungarians with the Tur
kish army are comparatively few in
number! D. y ..r'
Until the Allies landed on GallipoH
the duties of the German military mis-
sion consisted entirely of reorganiza
ton. When the campaign on Gallipol
commenced, the turkish government
was Obliged to put the head of tho
mission, Field Marshal Liman Won San
ders Pasha, in command of the CALI
poll army.
The number of Germans with tn,
Gallipali forces was small at any time
Beside Sanders Pasha. there were OF
the peninsula, for time, General We
Der Pasbns commander of the South, OF
Sedd lei. Bahr group; who succeeded Col
Won S0denstern; Colonel Kannengieser
commander of an Anafarta sector
Lieutenan mt Colonel Winners Bey, com
mander of the Eleventh division, ther
stationed north of Suvla Bay; Maiol
Muhlmann, on Weber's staff; Major Z
r. Riggs, who acted as Liman Won San
ders chief Of staff; two German artil
lery captains, one captain of engineers
six first heutenants, one of them being
Won Rabcau, only German officer taker
by British and others.
Helped Fight Russians
The second Ottoman or European army
was In command of Field Marshall Vol
der GoltE Pasha. Outside Of the stat
officers of the German pasha, no Ger
man officers were attached TO thit
force, With the exception of five officer
aviator stationed at AdrianOple.
The Ottoman forces operating agains
the RnEsiuns in Asia Minor had a great
er complement of German officers, abou
fftyafn an In the operation agains
the Supz Canal, in the winter of 1914
10, eighteen German officers participat
ed, nast of'them being on the stat
of DienfaF Pasha, comma nder of tn,
troops III Palestine Syria and the deS
ert, With fine OTTOMAN troops in Ara
bis mo Germans have served.
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