Mohave County miner., 1916-10-14
NOBLEMAN WITH TWO
 COUNTRIES ENGAGED
 IN RED GROSS WORK

There came to Stockholm little while
 ago one of the distinctly unique per.
 sonalities of the great world war-a
 man who had lived by the sword al most from boyhood, but who in the
 sudden turn of events in 1914 found himself, not a man without a country but a man with two countries-two countries arrayed against each other in the bitterest of all world combats.
 He had served under the Austrian crown prince and had been aide to Kitchener of Khartoum. He had gone into Egypt when Kitchener was there as lowly subaltern. For 12 years he was a prisoner of the fanatical Mahdi, and the wild Dervish tribes who threw back, for the first time in centuries, the ever advancing frontiers of civili- zation. Escaping from the clutches of the barbarians, he won the opportun- ity of participating in that remarkable march across the desert and the won derful campaign along the upper reaches of the Nile, which brought civilization back to the Sudan and won for Kitchener his first great fame.
 He came to Stockholm from Vienna unannounced and to all intents and purposes "incog." There were few who recognized him as Rudolf Carl von Slatin, baron of the Austrian en- pire, pasha of Egypt, lieutenant gen. eral of the Egyptian army, major gen. eral of the British army and six times the recipient of the coveted British orders, from Companion of the Bath to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Vic torian order, all won by distinguished service. He was inspector general of the Egyptian forces under Gen. Sir Francis Wingate when the crash of war in 1914 brought a new crisis in his already eventful life.
 When the parting of the ways came in 1914 Slatin found his love for Aus tria was still strong, although most of his life had been devoted to Britain and her wards in Egypt. He had be- come essentially a part of the English military machine. But he could not fight against his fatherland, nor could he serve in any way against the coun- try which had meant so much to him and which had lavished honors upon him.
 So Slatin regretfully met the issue. He resigned his English and Egyptian commissions, sheathed the sword which had been part of his very life, and passed into comparative security in the very midst of war. Slatin felt, however, there was one service he could render with all propriety. He returned to Vienna, attached himself to the Austrian Red Cross and now is doing all he can to better the condi- tion of prisoners of war, not alone in his own country but as part of a plan to bring about reciprocal agreements among all the nations in arms. Slatin suffered sufficiently himself as a pris- oner in the Sudan, and has the widest possible sympathy with any sort of captive.
 It so happens that this very unique personality of the war now has come into more or less direct relationship with America. His mission in Stock holm was to meet here a representa- tive of the American embassy in Pet rograd to discuss further means of re- lief for the hundreds of thousands of Austrian war prisoners now in Russia, as well as the immense colonies of Austrian civilians ,interned in various sections of the big northern empire. The Austrian government, he said, was ready and anxious to cooperate in any possible way to better the condition of prisoners generally and would gladly ACNlPAONeSC 4OL cillN llllllS INuSSld lllSlI do. He also expressed the appreciation of the Austrian government for the relief work already accomplished un- der the direction of the American em- bassy at Petrograd. Slatin, who de- voted his life to militarism, speaks now of war only from the standpoint of humanity.
 q would like so much to be able to say when it is all over that I had done something to help the sufferers in this tremendous war;" he said wistfully to a correspondent of the Associated Press.
 "We Austrians, you know" he added rather significantly, "have not much hate in our makeup. I think great deal of the ill-feeIing in the war has been engendered by the congregations and bitter words printed constantly in the belligerent press. The newspapers d