The Cordova daily times., 1916-10-17
MAN WITH I WO COUNTRIES PUTS
 ASIDE SWORD

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. r. -
 There came to Stockholm little
 while ago one of the distinctly unique personalities of the great world war q man who had lived by the sword al most from boyhood but who in the
 sudden turn of events in 1914 found himself. not man without country, but a man with two countries - two countries arruyed 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 a lowly subaltern. Fort twelve years he was a prisoner of the fanati- cal Mahdi, and the wild Dervish tribes who threw back for the first time in centuries, the ever advancing iron tiers of civilization. Escaping from the cluntches of the barbarians he won the opportunity of participating in that remarkable march across the de sert and the wonderful 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 unnanounced, and to all intents and purposes "incog" There were few who recognized him as Rudolf Carl con Slatin baron of the Austrian em- pire. pasha of Egypt, Iieutenant-gen- eral of the Egyptian army. majorgen- 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 Victorian Order, all won by dis tinguished service. He was inspector generator the Egyptian forces under General 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 1g14 Slatin found his love for Aus trta was stn strong, although most of his life had been devoted to Bri- tain and her wards in Egypt He had become essentially a part of the Eng fish military machine But he could | not fight against his fatherland nor could he serve in any way against the country which had meant so much to him and which had lavished honors 1 upon him.
 So Slatin regretrully met the issue. He resigned his English and Egyptian commissions, shcathed the sword which had been part of his very life, | and passed into comparative security in the very midst of war SIatn felt, 1 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 plan to bring about reciprocal agree ments among all the nations in arms. | Slatin suffered sufficiently himself as a prisoner 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 relief for the hundreds of thousands of Austrian war prisoners now in Rus sia, as well as the immense colonies of Austrian civilians fnterned in the various sections of the big northern empire. The Austrian government, he said, was ready and anxious to CO., operate in any possible way to better the condition of prisoners generally and would gladly reciprocate for any thing Russia might do. He also ex- pressed the appreciation of the Aus trian government for the relief work already accomplished under the di- rection Of the American embassy at Petrograd. Slatin who devoted his life to militarism. speaks now of war only from the standpoint of humanity.
 "I would like so much to be able to, say when it is all over that had done something to help the sufferers in this tremendous war;" he said somewhat