Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-13


| the ships and on the Notifications, and
finally draws some general conclusions as
to the requisite thickness OF a parapet in
defenses, the system Of mounting guns on
parapet, the average value of armor, the
value OF modern guns In bombarding earth
works, &c. This Is all contained in part I,
which is confined TO the bombardment. IL
| is illustrated throughout with maps. Fol-
lowing is part =, with a description OF the
operations OF the British navy subsequent
to the bombardment Of Alexandria, de-
scription OF the occupation OF the
city and the landing of United States
ditfonary force. the seizure OF the Suez
canal the campaign In the interior. the
battle OF Tel-el-kebir and the conclusion of
the war. In part are reviewed the work
ing Of the naval transport service. the
naval brigade. the marine battalion. the
royal artillery, the royal engineers. the rail-
way, telegraph, signal corps, military Po-
lice, medical department, army post office,
and in fact, every feature Of interest in the
opera ton OF the British forces, both naval
and military. There are hundred subjects
discussed at length In the review, which
should be OF value to the American navy,
and through this publication Of the intelli-
gcnce bureau the results OF the personal OBJ
servations Of Mr. Goodrich and his fellow
officers are brought within the reach Of the
youngest cadet from the Naval Academy.
In the year in which this elaborate re-
port was published the bureau issued a re-
port OF the operations Of the French navy
war Win runs IN lSSp-Sl. j
published also a report compiled by Lieut..
I. u. Ma son of the war On the Pacific coast
of South America between Chile and the
allied republics of Peru and Bolivia.
No naval battle of sufficient consequence
to variant a special review occurred after
this until the Chilean revolution of 1891.
Lieut.. Jas. III. Sears and Ensign ID. w.
Wells, jr., compiled a report of the naval
operations during this war. which
printed last year and for which there has
been such a demand that the supply I'm the
Navy Department has been exhausted and
II is likely Congress will order a special
reprint made. The report is complete in
Itself. 1t begins with description OF the
conditions leading up TO the revolution and
statement Of the strength of the forces
on both sides. 1t then describes I'm detail
the operations OF the Chilean navy during
the war. IL is accompanied by maps. I'm
like the report on the Egyptian campaign,
though, II makes no suggestions.
Following the Chilean revolution came the
Brazilian revolution and the bureau OF
naval intelligence has now in type a re-
port on the naval operations during the
| revolt, complied from the official reports
and other sources. This report will be is
sued In about a month.
No Special Detail Needed.
Thus IL VII be seen that. as Secretary
Herbert stated. no special detail from the
Navy Department is needed to insure a
full report OF the operations OF the Chinese
and the japanese I'm the war about Corea.
Already the bureau Of naval intelligence
has received preliminary reports from off,
GERS on the Asiatic station in regard TO
this war and a short time after the war is
over the Navy Department will be prepared
TO issue a full description of the features
which are of interest to the American
navy, compiled from :he observations OF
rot one, but many officers.
The bureau of naval intelligence does not
confine itself to publications about battles
L 10 he'd IN no hxyhr NH
Office of the Navy Department the ma terial
for d map of Corea, which is the most per
fect map u that interesting country In
existence. And, strange TO say, this map
has been made not from Information fur
nished by our naval officers on the Asiatic
station (although the data for the road
from Chemulpo to Seoul was supplied by a
naval officer who had been over the route
on a bicycle, but from a map drawn by
native Coreans at the time Corea was the
most civilized of the far eastern countries.
This map was sent to the department by
an eN-naval officer named Ffoulke, who
had been assigned as naval attache at
Seoul because OF his knowledge of Asiatic
tongues, and who had been made minister
when there was a change In the legat ton
there. Ffoulke was removed q few years
after his appointment because a report
which he made on the Chinese agent at
Seoul. which was intended only for the in
formation OF the State Department, be-
came public in some way and created dip
lomatic difficulties. The map sent by
Ffoulke s a queer looking thing. From a
casual examination OF II you might sup
pose that Corea was the most densely pop
ulated country on the globe for the towns
appear TO approach within easy hailing dis
lance Of each other But the circles which
represent these towns are made large so
that each may contain a name in Corean
characters. The town itself In many cases
might be represented by a pinhead. The
mountains on the map crudely suggest
ed by a series OF inverted VS..
tnl
the fact that the town OF Ping Yang where
the Japanese gained their most important
victory recently. is about thirty miles near
er the coast than II appears TO be on the
accepted maps Of Corea. According to
these maps the city is on a small river
some distance inland. In reality it is on
an estuary of a bay and a war vessel could
satl right up to the city's front. But no
vessel is likely to do SO. for the rise and
fall OF the tide is twenty feet and the YES
sel would be left high and dry at low tide
But while Ping Yang is no. open to naval
operations IT Is the most important mill
tary point In the country. 1t is the key
10 the mountain passes by which troops
may enter from China and that is why the
battle there was so important
One thing which this map shows is that
the real name of Seoul is Han Yang. The
word Seoul means capital: and people
say that they are going to Seoul as they
might say they are going to the capital
in this country-meaning washington nv
the way, Seoul is pronounced with a short
+. almost silent. and the on is like 90.
copy OF this new map of Corea will be
sent to any foreign country which wants
IL We exchange maps and coast charts
with the nations of the world IL they wish
But there is no system Of exchange he
tween the naval intelligence bureaus of
different nations. And only a very small
part Of the information collected by the
Navy Department, through Lieut. Singer.
ever gets TO the public eye
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm