The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-28
FOREIGN ATTACHES ADMIRE

honestly administered.
(Signed.) SKATER, Major General.
FOREIGN ATTACHES ADMIRE
Washington, July 27.-The German mil
itary attache, Major Won Goetzen; the
Russian, Colonel Yermoleff; the Turkish
officer, Mahaaza Bey; the japanese, Ma
jor Shiba; the French attache, Colonel
De Gramprey, and the Englishman, Major
Arthur Lee, Royal artillery, with the
American troops at Santiago. have all
furnished short military reports to their
embassies and legations here in regard 10
the operations and actions OF July l, and
3 at Siboney and San Juan hill.
Major Won Goetzen's, of the German
Imperial Guard, is perhaps the most in
teresting. There was no mounted regu-
lar cavalry in action he says. tho
earth's surface not lending itself to the
movements of cavalry The artillery was
four batteries, each of four guns. 80 cali
Der. 1t was the American infantry that
did the work Fighting in dispersed (open)
order, their line was a mile long. The
foreign attaches were all up on the line
of battle, where we saw everything. One
thing especially impressed us. There
we're three regiments of volunteers in
the fighting line. The Spanish command
ers directed their attack upon these, and
the regiments of blacks. The volunteers
were never shaken and never gave ground
once. Where they have an advance they
held It. When one remembers that some
Of these volunteers-the Seventy-first
New York, the Second Massachusetts,
and Colonel Woods mounted Rough Rid
ers'-had not been drilled for more than
two months, their steady advance under
as hot a fire as was ever seen in modern
war was a splendid evidence of the high
courage and ready adaptation to military
conditions of the American soldier. In
the hottest OF it all no man wavered.
When the line was rent and men went
down by scores these stalwart Americans
simply dressed their line and went on.
1t might have been a hail storm from the
skies instead of one of rifle bullets, for
anything one saw. No volunteers on
earth ever stood such a fire mistaken
for three hours"
1T was my first sight of war, my bap-
tism of fire" says Major Shfba, of the
Japanese Imperial Army Engineers, a
graduate of the French Military school
Of the Polytechnic, then the great engin-
eering postgraduate school at Briancon.
1.-The battle was fought under very un-
usual conditions The line was in a
dense thicket under a tropical sun, where
there was not much opportunity for the
fine tactics of modern war or it's schools.
But one feature it exploited thoroughly.
the high courage and intelligence, in
officer and soldier. be the man with the
musket black or white The officers did
not give over to their sergeants and cor
porals the leadership as modern tactics
direct. All went forward together, offic-
ers and men. The Spanish main attack
appeared to be directed at the part of the
line composed of the blacks, negro SOL
diers, but no troops could have behaved
more CALAMITY. The blacks and whites
went forward with iun. There was no
attempt to linger, TO prerend illness. no
Sinking. The difficulty was to restrain
the black men. Steady. steady, men,
the officers would say. Lord, Let US get
at themr shouted great, black giant, /
nearly six and half feet high. VINO was
a sergeant. There was no maneuvering,
nor any need for it. It was simply the
old conditions. where the strongest and f!
bravest was leader. only there was no /
bravest, all were brave. I never realized /
the high. cool, enduring courage Of this /
conquering American race as I do now.
having seen them tried in the fierce fire /
of war
THE foreign officers with the Fifth /
corps at Santiago are an interesting lot /
of men," says Lieutenant Carr. OF the 4
Rough Riders. who is here recovering /
from a bad wound received in the fight .
at San Juan Hill on July 2 al first we +
thought we would not like them, they
seemed TO be such superior lot. ! an /
sure they thought we volunteers would 1
all run az the first fire. In fact, We did +
not know how we would act ourselves
The fight in our part OF the line was
along a hillside where there was grass
rom two 10 five eet high. with occasion
ally an orange or other fruit tree. We
wa'ded through al this with spauiards
rising up out OF i and shooting and run
ming, only some times they did rot rgu
away. These attaches wanted 70 see the
fight and General Hawkins put them
where they saw Il and where they were
in the thickest OF Il. TOO. They acted ad
mirabsy- Al first they wanted servants.
horses. goodness knows what. but they
soon saw that the American officers al
rot have these ratags and they quit ask
Ing for them Think Major Lee, the
English officer. and MAJOR De Graupvey
are tAe favo-ites, Tae Freedman was
particularly impressed by little lang
&c saw lie was lying whsre the afe was
very hot for al hour with a young ser-
caznt OF RnoseveLt's % keep nm coan-