The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-01-01
GERMAN PRINCE IS
HIGHINP PRAISE Of
AMERICAN TROOPS
Says in His 81 Years Army
Experience Has Has Never
Seen Better Behaved Or
Disciplined Men.

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY OF
OCCUPATION, Jan. /. by the Asso-
Ciated Press I'm a talk recently with
an American army officer, Prince carr
of HohenZollern, ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ana
commander of the Thirty-eighth Land
wehr brigade, now living in the area
occupied by the Americans, said that In
all his 30 years experience in the army
he never had seen soldiers of better
discipline or who behaved better than
the Americans.
The prince. who is a member Of a
n-reigning house of the Hohenzollern
family, according to the American Of
fiCer, appeared not to realize the IN
dignation created in the United states
through the sinking Of the Lusitania
and expressed surprise when he was
told that celebrations were reported to
have taken place in Germany and
medals awarded to the submarine crew
when the big Cunard liner was sent to
the bottom. The prince said personally
he disapproVed Of submarine warfare
and bombing by airplanes. He asserted
Germany should not have started her
submarine warfare without being abso-
lutely certain it would succeed.
Prince Carl said he regretted German
propaganda in the United States had
been carried out in what he termed a
clumsy manner. Germany, he declared,
should have started her propaganda on
Il larger scale and spent millions of
marks instead Of thousands, The great
est fault with Germany's diplomacy, he
added, .NHS the persistent disregard OF
the importance of the nations psychol-
ogy aud failure TO appreciate the points
of view Of other nations.
Was Discharged,
The prince was discharged from the
German army at Hanover a Few DAYS
agu-. and is living at his castle al
N&F8hedy, on the Rhine, near Ander,
mach. He said his first intimation OF
Germany's military collapse was Wheh
the high command sent an order 10 MN
On the western front to man a tele,-
phone with an officer Of the personnel
The only troops in the interior of Ger
many, the prince added, when the re-
cent trouble started were replacement
battalions OF young, unframed men
who were easily contaminated by Boil
sheVik doctrine. 1t was his opinion, ne
asserted. that this would not have hap
pened if an old-time German otticer
had been commanding.
The prince concluded by saying that
so, 900 German officers had lost their
lives during the war.
Prince Carl was German military at
| tache with the Japanese army during
the R~usSO-JapaneSe war, He Is said TO
have been extremely o-Japanese,
During the visit to Germany IN WV oil
the late King EDWARD, lrlhce Cari WaS
relieVel of command of the First regl-
menE BDragoon Guards, Of which King
| Edward was the honorary commander,
1t was rumored at the time that his
friendliueSs to the Japanese and his
| open hostility to the Russians was the
cause
Carl is another of the German gen
erals known before the European wal
! to have held strong prejudice against
the ability of the American army and
navy. on various occasions having be
Titled them. His antipathy, also eX'
tended markedly to the British forces.
with regard to Germany's losses In
officers, the Cologne Gazette on NOV
IS placed the number Of officers killed
| at "A. 600 and those missing at l3,0O0'