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KOLMAR, BARON VON , BARON VON feld, East Prussia, and educated in the Military Academy in Berlin. He saw his first military service in the war between Austria and Prussia in 1866 and also participated in the Franco-Prussian War, after which he was appointed instructor in the Berlin Military Academy. In 1883 he entered the service of the Turkish Government as chief of military education, in which position he continued un- German military service, becoming a til 1896. After this he re-entered the lieutenant-general in 1908, when he again organization of the Turkish Army. went to Turkey to superintend the rewent to Turkey to superintend the re- When the World War broke out, in 1914, he was back in Germany, and, after the German invasion of Belgium, was quered territory, but in November, 1914, appointed military governor of the conhe was sent back to Turkey, where he the capital and acting Minister of War. was appointed military commandant of He was chiefly responsible for the excellent defenses erected on the Gallipoli Peninsula and the defeat of the Allied expedition there. In April, 1915, he succeeded Simon von Sanders as chief of the First Turkish Army. (gō-mö'te) PALM, the Saguerus sac- GOMATO (gō-mä'tō), or GOMUTI charifier, or Areng, a species of trees found in the Moluccas and Philippines, which supplies abundance of sugar. the juice which flows from different Palm sugar is generally obtained from palms on wounding their spathes and adjacent parts. It is commonly known in of the gomuti palm, when fermented, pro- India by the name of jaggery. The juice . The juice duces an intoxicating liquid or toddy. In of arrak is distilled from it in Batavia.
Sumatra it is termed neva , and a kind From the trunk of this palm, when exhausted of its saccharine juice, a good A single tree will yield from 150 to 200 deal of our commercial sago is obtained. is obtained. pounds of sago. The stiff strong fiber known under the name of gommuti, or obtained from the leafstalks, and is extensively used in the of rope. manufacture of cables and various kinds