The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1917-01-30
VACANCY LEFT BY
RETIRING OF EVANS
ISF|LLEDB BY KUHN

Col. Joseph L. Kuhn, Corps Of Engi-
uccrs, has been selected by President
Wilson as briadiergeneral Of the line
to fill the vacancy caused by the retire
mcnt of Brig.-Gen. Robert X. Evans
November 10. Colonel Kuhn recently
returned from Berlin where he had been
serving as military attache since the
European war. On his arrival in Wash
ngtOn he was assigned to duty as di
rector Of the Army War College. He is
a graduate of West Point of the class of
1898, being assigned TO the Corps of
Engineers as second lieutenant, and
became a colonel in March, 1915. Dur
ing the Spanish-American war he seLY-
ed as major in the volunteer engi:
neers. %.
Already three officers have announced
their intention TO retire voluntarily this
year. Mai. G. II. Crabtree, Medical
Corps, is 20 leave active service on his
own application today, Col. j. +. Gull
.foyle, Fourth Cavalry, February !, and
Brig Gen. George p. Scriven, chief
signal officer, February Il. The Army
was surprised to learn of Gen. Scri'
ven s contemplated retirement, as he
is in his sixty.third year, but in his
letter to the secretary of war he says
that he believes that his work is done.
The communication says:
81 have served on active duty for
more than forty-two years, in the Unit
ed States, the Philippine Islands, Cuba,
Mexico, Guatemala, Salvador, Nicara.
qua, Costa Rica, Italy, Turkey, Russia,
and in China, during the Boxer trou.
bles, and although deeply regret leav.
ing active service, believe that my
work is done. "
The active list of the Army in 1916
gained 1887 new officers. These includ
ed sos second heutenants who were
appointed from the army, national
guard, marine corps, and civil life, to
ill vacancies caused by the National
Defense Act; l24 cadets graduated
from West Point in June, and who have,
since become first heutenants; fourteen
first leutenants in the medical reserve
corps commissioned first lieutenants in
the medical corps; five chaplains com,
missioned with the relative rank of first
lieutenant; five retired officers returned
to active service--Maj. Lorenzo p. Dav.
ison as colonel, First Lieut.. Jacob
Schick as captain, Maj. William o.
Owen, as n colonel, in the medical
corps; Capt. Ben. H. Dorcy, as a cap
tain, and Second Lieut.. Joseph 1. Nc
Mullen, as a captain. One quartermas-
ter clerk appointed military store
keeper, with the rank of captain, the I
old Office being revived in his case;
five former officers, who resigned some
time ago, being commissioned again !;
Eve candidates from civil life being APP
pointed second ieutenants in the Corps
Of Engineers, and seventy-three quar-
termaster clerks being commissioned
second lieutenants in the quartermaster
corps. All the appointments in the
Corps of Engineers, cavalry, field artil
Iery, coast artillery, and infantry are
provisional for two years, with the ex-
ception of the military academy grad
yates, a new departure last year.
Pour Transferred Prom Line
The line of the Army lost -four off,
GERS by transfer last year, the judge.
advocate generals department being
the gamer. They were transferred as
Judge advocates, with the rank of mai.
or, as follows: Capt. I. l.. Hunt, Nine
teenth Infantry; D. p. Quinlan, caval-
ry; A. w. Brown, infantry; and X.
Fucker, Fourteenth Cavalry.