The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-14
New Secret System of Wireless Teleg-
raphy Used for the First Time
and BOer Tactics Tested.
FOREIGN OFFICE SOUNDED
GERMAN MINISTRY ASKED CONCERN
ING MIR. WHITES SUCCESSOR.
Names of Tower, Storer and Hill Sub
mitted-Any One of the Three
Acceptable at Berlin.

army maneuvers just ended were wireless
telegraphy and Boer tactics. The results
of the wireless experiments seem complete
ly satisfactory, and in the opinion of the
military chiefs will enormously affect the
transmission Of intelligence during battle.
The system used was neither the Slaby nor
the Marconi. and a description of the ap-
paratus is not available because visitors
at the maneuvers when they came close to
the stations were requested to retire. The
exterior of the apparatus is simply a
cubical iron box about three feet each way,
mounted on a wagon resembling a gun
carriage, and drawn by four horses. The
messages sent were caught on a wire at,
feet above the carriage. These stations
were moved freely about the field, the
horses sometimes going at full trot, but
they were stopped for telegraphing. The
operator used a key producing a shrill,
metallic sound audible for hundred yards.
The cavalry corps In making the detour
yesterday, kept constantly in touch with
headquarters through the wireless tele-
graph, enabling the corps to hasten or re-
tard its movement throughout the thirty
two miles ride as in the judgment of the
headquarters staff changes in the situa-
ton were required. 1t will now be possible
to deliver coordinate attacks by widely
separated divisions in a way hitherto inn
possible.
Boer tactics were used extensively during
the third day of the maneuvers when the in
fantry deployed in open order and advanced
regardless of regular formation. each man
or squad taking advantage of irregularities
of the ground for cover and running for
ward in small sections, instead of in a
whole line. sitting down again. and once
stead of being massed on prominent points
where guns and gunners would become
targets for the enemy's guns were in Sc
lected, covered locations, each battery TAX
inc wi RI ali
ment with the others.
The Foreign Office has received from the
German embassy at Washington a memo
randum of inquiry made by Secretary Hay
as to whether it would be agreeable to re-
ceive as ambassador, in succession to Mr..
White, Charlemagne Tower, the present
United States ambassador at st. Peters,
burg, Bellamy Storer, now United States
minister at Madrid, or David j. Hill, as
sistant secretary of state. The Foreign
Office has instructed the German charge
de affaires at Washington to say that any
one of the three is acceptable. The i'm
preston here is that Mr.. Tower is the most
likely to be appointed. Submitting list of
names instead of a single one is quite out
side of diplomatic custom. Usually only one
name is proposed. Mr.. White returns from
Switzerland next week and will probably
remain here until he presents his letters
ment has not yet been officially notified
and consequently no arrangements have
been made for farewell audience. but as
it is understood that 1T would be agreeable
to Mr. White TO conclude his term of office
on his SEVENTEEN birthday, Nov. Z, his
Majesty will doubtless receive him in au-
dience on that day.
Professor Angst, of the Swiss National
Museum, will discuss in his Forthcoming
upon the European market for antique OBJ
jects of art, pointing out that, while Amer
lean collectors formerly bought single OBJ
jecIs like their European rivals, the later
American generation of millionaires buy
entire collections at once at prices utterly
excluding European bidders. Such bidding.
the director will say, gives the purchaser
a guarante of the genuineness of the OBJ
jects, since they were gathered by pains
taking connoisseurs. Director Angst at
tributes this innovation to the rapid crca
ton of American millionaires through the
recent great trusts, and refers to j. p Nor
gan's purchase, for 500, 900, of Mannheim
| famous collection of majolicas, Fayzence's
bronzes, etc. in Paris. Such purchases the
| director asserts, are an irreparable loss fol-
| Europe. He admits that Mr.. Morgan, Mr.
| Carnegie and others will either open their
| collections to the public or give them out
| right to museums, adding: THE liberality
| with which rich Americans treat the muse
| ums of their country throws into the shade
! rector Angst also refers to the enormous
advance in prices through American buy
| ings, particularly mentioning old Zurich
| porcelains.
The Frankfort Opera House has secured
Humperdinck's new fairy opera. 1.-The
| Sleeping Beauty" The first performance
will take place about Nov. II. The cour
theaters of Berlin and Munich, the Stad
| Theater of Leipsic and the German Ma
| tional Theater of Prague have also &C
| quired THE Sleeping Beauty"
| A dispatch from Weimar says Mascagn
| will undertake tour of Germany In thu
spring of 1903. conducting his own operas
The Leipsic Stadt Theater has acquired
Bjornson's new drama. the king" which
| taneously at Leipsic and at Christiania or
the authors SEVENTEEN birthday.
| A plaster cast of the copy of bronze o.
Schadows Statue of Frederick the Grea
at Stettin. erected in 1793 is being pre-
pared for Emperor Williams gift t
| Harvard. The original statue, which wa:
| in marble is much injured
| At banquet given tonight at the new
! palace, Potsdam, in honor of the Kins
| of Saxony, Emperor William said he heart
lily transferred to King George all of tn,
| gratitude attachment and affection he haC
| entertained for the late King Albert. Kinl