El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-02-18
D. N. CORPS IS
REORGANIZED
Gen. Baker Has Been Re
lieved of Duty; Civilian
Chief of Embarkation.

Washington, D. C., Feb. 1s.-Reor
ganization Of the ouartermaster's de-
partment along the lines proposed by
Maj. Geo. W. Cocktails soon after he
took charge as acting quartermasteI
general, has been completed and some
official statement soon will be issued
explaining the duties of the new
branches created.
Gen. Cocktails has relieved Brig.
Gen Chauncey 3. Baker. chief OF army
embarkation, from that post and has
placed the entire embarkafion section
Under Joseph E. Lilly, a New YORK
shipping expert. who recently became
chief adviser to the acting quarter
master general in all matters pertain
ing to shipping. Gen. Baker will be
placed in charge Of a new section
having supervision over manufacture
OF motor vehicles for the army.
among the government soldiers. The
mutiny continued during the major
portion OF a whole week
In that town I questioned more than
30 soldiers who were at Antwerp dur
ing the period Of the mutiny. With
out exception every one corroboratei
each other as to the magnitude OF the
mutiny and the length Of time 1t con-
tinue6.
But when I made attempts to dis
cover the prime cause OF the military
uprising, I became obliged TO listen
to as many causes" as persons I in
terviewed. This peculiar phase OF the
incident caused me to 90 into further
deep thinking. I began to reason,
and later was convinced. that the
causes" of the rebellious mood among
the German soldiers were many and
varied. One of my informants told
me that during the Antwerp mutiny
the officers suffered the most.
POIyEamy Preached by State.
It was in this place that I first be-
came acquainted with the now greatly
progressed polygamy movement in
Germany.
In this town, with a population Of
5000 souls, nearly 1900 incapacitated
soldiers were lodged. most of whom
are being employed by the govern
ment in manufacturing war supplies.
The great majority Of these men were
minus one or more limbs, yet the au-
thOrities had found some sort Of work
for each Of them. But I had not
stayed in the town two days when !
began to learn what rank immortality
ruled supreme in the name OF the
Fatherlandi
immoral solicitors, masquerading
under the sacred name Of Social
Workers for the Propagation of Race
had rendered the place into a brothel
hell
An intense. aggressive and contin-
uous propaganda was being carried
out by those social workers" to in
duce women who could bear children
TO become temporary wives to inca
pacitated soldiers.
GBear a Chndls New Hun Slogan.
Young women we're actually being
prosecuted for. being 'unpatriotic
should they refuse to bear a child
for the Fatherland."
Women, whose husbands were still
at the front, were Induced to bear
children by soldiers who had been
blleted in the town, while soldiers
near the front, too distant from home
to enjoy short leave, were being
billeted at towns at hand and the
women Of that town or city in turn
were being importuned to become
patriotic" mothers.
made thorough investigation to
learn whether the movement was an
extensive one. In the course Of my
searchings I came across nine pamph-
let's, written by various authorities,
advocating polygamous marriages On
further investigation discovered that
these pamphlets were the work of
one person, and that the whole output
was the diabolical work of our Berlin
Educational Bureau. The printer 5
name did not appear in these pamph-
lets. but through one Of the high off
Gals Of the Typographical Union OF
Berlin, I later learned beyond the
shadow OF a doubt that the polyga-
authorities under many fraudulent
names.-Copyright 1918, by Interna-
tional News Bureau, Inc
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