Show OUR MILITARY SAID TO HAVE COMMANDED THE BOERS new york april 3 the journal and advertiser assumes that the american named said to have been in command of the boers at the bushmann Bush mans kop ambush was captain carl U S A the journal and advertiser says captain was detached from command of a company of the seventeenth infantry when ordered to south africa on january 5 he was sent to the cape to report on all military operations and is virtually a united states representative he reached the fro nt about four weeks ago and like the french and german attaches is believed to be helping the boer forces in whatever way he can captain was born in germany he came to america in 1881 and the same year joined the united states army as a private he was first in barracks at fort leavenworth kas within three years passed through the successive grades of private corporal sergeant and second lieutenant and after obtaining a com masslon mis slon his promotion was rapid in was graduated from the fort leavenworth cavalry and infantry school and after a few years was assigned to duty in the school as instructor in the department of military art he Is a deep student and has written four monographs upon the subject of military art during the war with spain he was assigned to duty with the bureau of military information la the adjutant generals office at washington at the beginning of the spanish war he was made an assistant adjutant general with the rank ot captain of volunteers and was present at the santiago campaign on bis promotion to a captaincy in the regular army he was assigned to active duty in the philippines he served at the front there for several months captain is a graduate of heidelberg university where he was a proficient duellist du ellist his face Is marked with many cuts as a result of his sport A washington dispatch said last night that the war department had received no report recently from captain the report that he was fighting with the boers was a startling announcement to the department captain is still officially fici ally connected with the united states government and such an act of his might bring on grave diplomatic difficulties the cables giving this report were handed at to adjutant general corbin such a thing as this said the general is inconceivable I 1 cannot believe that captain has done this without first forwarding a resignation to the war department I 1 have been asked several times today whether he bad resigned I 1 cannot believe that he would take part in the transvaal battles without first leaving the united states army As I 1 have said such a thing is inconceivable under military law captain is one of the most conservative officers in the army that was one of the reasons why he was sent to the transvaal if captain has joined in the fighting without first resigning from the united states army he will ba liable to court martial on his return it he does not will be dismissed from the service in disgrace if it be found true that he joined the boers while still holding a commission under the united states |