Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-19
In Three Years 3.493 Soldiers
Have Been Killed in the
Philippines.
The Wounded Numbered 1888 in
the Same Interyal..Corbin's
Report.
Need Of Cable to Manila and
Reform Of the Transport
Service.

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report of Major General Henry c.
Corbin, adiutant General of the army,
comprehensively reviews the work.
condition and needs of the military es-
Establishment.
The casualties to the troops in the
Philippines since the date of the first
arrival, June 80, 1898, to June 80 last,
were 115 officers and 1878 men killed,
and 49, officers and 1856 men woun-
ded.
General Corbin invites special atten-
ton to the remarks of Colonel Mills.
superintendent of the West Point MIL
itary Academy, upon the improved dis
cipline and generally excellent con-
dition of the cadet corps. is safe
to predict, says General Corbin, that
hazing of brutal nature liz a thing
of the past at the academy.,-
General Corbin believes that the sys-
tenn of training for the officers should
begin with elementary technical in-
struction at each post and terminate
in the higher training, which would
be provided ut q war college, the speedy
and complete organization of which he
considers most desirable.
The general says that it has been re-
ported to him that retired army offic-
ers. detailed at full pay as military in
structors. in some instances dosnot even
live at the colleges. and only occasion
ally visit them. This state of affairs,
he says, should be corrected.
The adjutant general believes that
the army transport service on the Pa
cific Is costing the government con-
siderably more than the use of COM
mercial steamship lines would, for the
latter would have the advantage, de-
MED to the government. OF transport
and would meet the needs for increas-
ing American trade in the Orient.
He therefore suggests that congress
with safety could offer inducements
to United States shippers TO install a
line of steamers under charters that
would permit them, in tirnel of nee
essity, to serve as reserve army and
navy transports.
An equally important need of the
service, the adjutant general says, is
coast to the Philippines. The rates
charged by the exorbitant, $2.3S per
word being the regular tariff ON mes
sages between Washington and Manila.
He urges that more comfortable
quarters for the troops in the Philip
pines be provided as soon as possible,
and that an appropr be made for
the erection of storehouses In. and about
Manila. where the government now
pays 100000 annually for the use of
rented buildings:
During the recent military operations
In China the god name ard discipline
OF General Chaffee's army was several
times called into question by the row
dyism of non combatants dressed gen.
orally in the uniform of a soldier. The
addutant general therefore urges that
farriers. teamsters, and the like should
have uniforms different from the regu-
lar enlisted soldier.
He strongly recommends that con-
kress shall authorize the retirement of
not to exceed two major generals on
the active and one on the retired list,
with the rank of lieutenant general
He points out that the distinguished
services of Major Generals Merritt.
Brookeand Otis fully entitled them to
this honor.
Justice has been already too long
delayed, General Corbin says. in the
matter of the medals for exceptional
war service recommended by the late
President Mckinley in his message to
congress In 1899.
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