New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1917, Page 5

KUHN MAY BECOME CHIEF OF STAFF Has Had Wide Experience in - Actual Service Washington, Sept. 20.—Major Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, who has seen more actual modern warfare than any other man in the American army, is to suc- ceed Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott as Chief of the General Staff of the United States army. General Scott will reach the retirement age of 64 years Saturday. Whether General Kuhn will take up the work of Chief of Staff as soon as General Scott re- tires or will wait until Major Gen. Tasker H. Bliss goes on retired list on Dec. 31 is not deflnitely known, and Secretary Baker would not dis- cuss the matter. Major Gen. Bliss was acting chief of staff during General Scott’s ab- sence in Russia on the Root mission. It has been intimated for some time that when General Scott is retired, General Bliss will receive a chance to round out his career by acting as chief of staff until his retirement, and would then be succeeded by General Kuhn. Major Gen. Kuhn's rise has been as rapid as that of any other general officer on the active list of the army. Only a little over two years ago he was a lieutenant colonel. 1In 1915 he became a colonel, in 1916 a briga- dier general and head of the Army War college, and this summer was promoted to be major-general in the national army and assigned to active duty in command of the Seventy- ninth division at Camp Meade, near Annapolis Junction, Md. RKubn Anxious to Go to France, It is intimated that after the eleva- tion of General Kihn to the post of chief of the general staff. and when American forces have been sent to France in sufficiently large numbers to Justify their use in the fighting trenches, a large part of the general staff, including probably General Kuhn himself will go to France to establish headquarters in proximity to the fighting front. General Kuhn has been anxious to go to France ever since war was declared, and it is stated that as chief of staff he will recommend the transfer of the prin- cipal part of the general staff to Tom Went to France. When He Bade His Mother Good-Bye His Father Slipped Him a Letier The kind of letter that every father and mother would wish to write ‘their son. But some of us cannot express our- selves as can Tom's father. It's a short let- ter: only three points touched on. But they are all there is to a young fellow “going over.” When Tom read the letter he realized he had an unusual letter. He wished every fellow going to “ somewhere in France” or to one of the camps could have it, too. So he sent the letter to be printed, and it is in the October Ladies’ Home Journal Spend 15 Cents on It The Biggest Number Ever Printed 164 Pages HELPFUL WORDS From a New Britain Citizen. Is your back lame and painful? Does it ache especially after exer- Hom? Is there a soreness in the kidney region ? These symptoms suggest weak kid- neys. It so there is danger in delay. Weak kidneys get fast weaker. Give your trouble prompt atten- ton. Doan's Kidney Pills are for weak kidneys. Your neighbors use and recommend them. Read this New Britaln man’s tes- timony. ‘Willam A. Sadd, 100 Seymour street, says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills served me good when [ used them sight years ago for an attack of kid- ney trouble. The cure has been last- ing as I hven't had to take them since. 1 always recommend Doan's Kidney Pills.’” 80c, at all dealers. Foster-Milburn Co., Mfgrs, Buffalo, N. ¥, | mess and the remodeling | the German spy system works on the | a corresponding class of seedier in- | “guides” who hang around doorways, France so that he will be in clo:a' touch with General Pershing. . General Kuhn is held to be emi- nently fitted for the position of chief of staff. For two years he was mili- tary observer with the German forces in the present war, and on his return to the United States, in December, 1916, he was made chief of the war college, which has been In charge of creation and consideration of plans for raising a great army. He was an observer attached to the Japanese army in the war between that country and Russia, and he has served as military observer in nearly every other war in the last twenty Years. General Kuhn was appointed at- tache at Berlin after Colonel Long- horne was recalled in April, 1915. He visited the German fronts until the fall of 1916, when the German General Staff considered it unwise longer to allow American military officers to observe what was going on along the fighting lines. - What General Kuhn learned in Ger- many has been of the greatest value to the war department in the develop- ment of its plans for the creation of a great army. When Colonel Kuhn returned to this cauntry the regular army had scarcely 150,000 men in its ranks, a large proportion of them on overseas service in Hawaii, Panama, and the Philippines, and the National Guard not more than 150,000 men available in service on the Mexican border. Today there are about 311,- 000 men in the regular army, nearly 400,000 in the ranks of the National Guard, and 687,000 drafted men in various stages of transformation from civil to military life. There will be nearly 1,260,000 men in the regular army, national army, and National Gurd army by the end of October, and the war department plans to have next year another million men in the field. Besides his vast store of military knowledge and experience General Kuhn will bring to bear upon his work as chief of staff the advantage of yauth. He is only 53 years old, eleven years below the army retirement age. Like Funston, General Kuhn is a native of Kansas, but, unlike Funs- ton, Kuhn is a West Pointer. General Kuhn is the scholar type of officer who believes in keeping abreast of the latest advancement in the art of modern warfare and has served large- ly with the engineers, except .when on duty as a military observer. General Kuhn was graduated from ‘West Point in 1885 at the head of his class and was assigned to the Corps of Engineers. He served five yvears as Instructor of civil and military engineering at West Point and supervised the erec- tion there of the new academy build. ing. He became a captain in 1898, and was assigned to the office of chief of engineers of the army, where he served as assistant for four yars. Returning to West Point, he took charge of the erection of the officers’ of the library building. Then he spent six months in the Philippines. SPY MEANCE STILL EXISTS IN' FRANGE! Country Overrnn With Paid Agents of Germany Paris, Sept. 20.—Recent disclosures in the Bonnet Rouge affair have at- tracted public attention to the danger of German agents in Paris. It is stated on good authority that following lines. FEach agent sends a report of any information he can gath- er that strikes him as likely to affect the political, economic, military, or moral conduct of the war. Central bureaus operating in neu- tral countries connect and check up all this data and pass it on to the intel- ligence department in Germany. The latter then considers the collection of information and draws deductions therefrom. Thus an apparently trivial fact may prove an important link in the chain of reasoning. Herein lies the real danger to any one who talks to chance acquaint- ances. It is just the fact that they may think is harmless which may be of essential value to the enemy. Such persons infest in particular the so-called American bars in the neighborhood of the opera, in some of which the American entry into the war is still being celebrated with surprising relaxation of alcohol re- strictions. These persons belong gen- erally to three classes: First, loungers of fairly reputable appearance, who frequent first-rate establishments and 1 ividuals at inferior places; second, eager to aid the stranger with their knowledge of French and the seamy | side of Paris life, and third, women of the undesirable class who, though barred from first-rate bars, are ad- mitted by others. To cite examples of spy work. In one bar the narrow space between the counter and the wall is packed with a dense mass of khaki-clad figures, not all Americans, red-faced, jostling and all talking loudly, quite regard- less of civillan listeners here ' and there among them. Naturally the conversation turns chiefly on the do- ings at the front. A Briton describes an action in which he took part to an interested group of Americans, whose questions elicit details which the enemy perhaps would sacrifice lives to know. Many Women Employed. If one advances further one sees in the wider back part of the room rows of tables, at each of which sit girls, some alone waiting, some deep in conservation with officer private, | aviator, or sailor. Women of this | claes are widely utilized by German agents. “In every espionage case look for the prostitute,” was a recent distum of a prominent French police official, NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, STPTEMBER 20, 1017. and the recent espionage cases here | English was certainly not his native support his judgment fully. 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