The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1917-07-12

anything to the discredit Of the SER
vice, and in all his army experience
he could recall but one case OF the
desertion OF a non commissioned
officer OF German blood and that de-
scrtiOn was caused by domestic
troubles.
A casual perusal OF the army list
and directory shows surprisingly
large percentage of names OF officers
who, becauRe of the names they bear
are undoubtedly OF German blood.
Major Gen. lPershing is an Alsatian
by descent The French claim him,
but the claim Of Germany Is entitled
to consideration.
Major Gen. William L. Sibert, who
Is in actual command Of our forces
In France. is Of German descent
There are two other Siberts in the
army, First Lieut.. Franklin Sibert Of
the infantry and Second Lieut.. Har-
old Sibert OF the engineer corps.
Jumping here and there through
the alphabetical list OF comrhissioped
Officers, one finds under "V." Second
Lieut.. Berthold Vogel, First Lieut..
Arthur II. Won Dcestcn, Capt Carl +.
Won Dem Bussche Second Lieut.. L.
A. II. Won Hartung. First Lieut.. John
ID. Won Holtzendorff. First Lieut..
William ID. Won Kessler Second
| Lieut. Frederick j. Won Rohan and
/ capt. Anoyne Won Schrader. This
sounds like list OF the personnel OF
| Won HindCnburg's staff. II comprises
| but a few of the men OF German birth
wearing the insignia Of officers in
the United States Army under the
initial V.
There are six Wagners in the list
as well as Major Lutz Wahl. who
was, at the time OF the publication
OF the directory with the War Col
lcge also there is First Lieut.. Man
II. Wainer, who was personally and
favorably known TO The Evening
World correspondents at McAllen
Tex. last summer. Furthermore
there catches the eye the name OF
Lieut.. Carl A. Waldman Of the Coast
Artillery
on Major Gen. Pershing's staff are
several officers OF German blood
Every brigadler general in the army
has from one TO five officers of Ger
man descent on his staff
Brig. Gen, Joseph II. Kuhn, admit
ted by military men Of the world tC
be one OF the best qualified officers
In any service Is OF German blood
He was our military attache In Berlir
and Is on the General Staff The
executive force OF our army is wei
represented In efficient officers Of higf
rank by men Of German descent. Ad
lutant Gen. Henry o. s. HciBtand /,
one; Lieut.. Col. Eli A. Helmick Is al
Inspector General, as is Major OthC
-, Rosebaum. Major Edward A. Ere
ger is a valuable member Of the staf
Of Provost Marshal Gen. Crowder, ant
Col. Charles II, krauthoff and abou
thirty other officers of German de
scent are performing wonderful ser
vice In the Quartermaster Corps.
MANY ENGINEER OFFICERS ARI
OF GERMAN DESCENT.
In the Engineer Corps we End I'm
casual and rapid inspection OF the lis
names such as NutZ, Schulz, Hoffman
Alstaettcr and Ehrnobeck. Samuel 10
is Lieutenant Colonel In the Ord
nance Department, to which are at
tachcd, with many others OF Germal
names, First Lieuts. Charles A. Schi
melfcnig and Hermann n, Zornip
From the stan OF the Signal Corp
we pick out, at random, the names q
10 col Samuel RCbCr, Capts. Charles L
Swartz and Alvin G.. Gutensohn, Will
! Major Frank Z. Lahm, and Lieuti
carl SpatZ, George r.. 4 RemMrl
John II, c, Bartholf and George +
Il | StratmCyer are doing good work 1
the aviation corps. Gustav j. Erie
d berger Is professor with rank q
, Colonel, in West Point Academl
T" Herman j, Koohler, with rank {
II Major, is instructor in swordsmar
ship and physical exercises in We,
Point, and at Plattsburg, Lieut.. Co
/ PAU A. Wolf is in charge OF III
% Plattsburg camp for Reserve Corps.
There are 7,22o names in the list {
u commissioned officers OF tho arm
N issued on May 20, 1917 Many haN
7 been added since. Glancing at n
list, any ones eyes lights on a Ge
G, man name. Columns might be fille
, with them.
, our German citizens are on the &c
d. In so far as the army is concerned,