The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1898-07-30
WAS IN PARIS AT
A CRITICAL TIME.
Col. kellogg as Military Attache
in Europe.

in Europe.
Col. kellogg who is military head
aboard the U. S. transport Peru, under
Maj. Gen. Otis, the commanding gen
eraI of this expedition, is of the Fourth
q. S. Cavalry and is an officer we'll
known in the service and Of disLin-
guished record. He is a West Pointer,
entering the academy from the State Of
New York, having been born at Troy.
Col. kellogg has seen much service on
the frontier, having been stationed at
different posts in the west and south
west during various severe Indian
wars
For the past four years, up to the
opening of hOstilitieS between the
United States and Spain, Col. Kellogg
has had a most pleasant, if a some
what arduous assignment. He was
military attache Of the American Le-
cation at Paris. Appartaining to the
duties of this detail has been a re-
sponsibility that could fall upon only
the shoulders of a picked man. Col.
Kellogg had finished his education
abroad and for that especial reason
went to field and a task with which
he had acquaintance. The attache is
required to appear upon many cere-
mOnial occasions. Col Kellogg is a
! soldier of fine appearance and natur-
ally was in perfect accord with his
surroundings. Not all of his time was
spent in Paris. For four months Of
each year he was permitted to be
! away. These vacations" were spent
in other capitals of the continent. The
seats of all governments, barring that
| OF Spain alone, were visited by Col.
| Kellogg during his four years as at
| tache. The colonel noted and report
| ed to his Government particular and
| new features in the armies of Europe
! and made the initiative in number OF
important changes in the service of his
country. Few living men have bet
ter or more thorough knowledge of the
armies of the continent than this Col.
Kellogg, now quietly controlling the
force on the transport Peru, proud OF
his squadron and anxious to get into
the field in the Philippines. In wit
| Messing military reviews and mass
| ings and maneuvers in the capital the
American officer saw some grand
sights and was there for the purpose
OF turning to account of his own cOun-
| try the information CLEANED.
Of the sympathy that France has
| shown for Spain in the present war
Col. kellogg is not disposed to dis
| cuss at length. For one thing he says
| that France has never been able &c
| forgive the United States for saving
Mexico from rule by king.
From the time the instruction in
Cuba opened up to the break between
the United States and Spain, feeling
on the Peninsula has run higher
against the Yankees. Maj. Bliss wa:
military attache at Madrid and he and
Col. Kellogg are old friends. Maj
Bliss sent his letters to Paris via Lon
don by underground" route. In one
of his letters to Col. Kellogg at Paris
Maj. Bliss gave a detailed inventory
of personal property that he expected
to carry from Madrid and wanted il
searched for in case he met with q
mishap.
Gen. WOOdfOrd, who had been Amer
lean Minister to Spain, was a passen-
ger with Col. kellogg for the hons
land by the French ship TOuraine. 1
was believed that the vessel would be-
followed by a Spanish cruiser. On ths
voyage several sails were sighted, bu
the ancient flag of Spain did not ap-
pear Just at that time, too, it was
j thought that the steamer City Of Paris
was being chased by Spaniards. Col
kellogg says there was great excite.
most-almost panic-on the Touraint