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MILES BACK FROM TOUR
General Found the Army Of tbs
Philippines in Good Condition.
Sends MareonIgram Greeting 20 King I'd.
ward In Mid-oeeau ana Receives
h Royal Answer 1T Port.

New York City. - Wind and sun
burned, looking not a bit the sixty.four
years which will lie his next August.
General Miles Is back from Ills world
tour, which he began Oh September IL
last. He arrived with his wife and
party on the steamship Lucania.
II left San Francisco IN October l
and after visiting Guam aud the Philip
pines " he began. Il arrived In Manila.
l found the army there In good condi-
ton. There are close to 10000 Ameri-
a troops In the Philippines. and hos.
tilities are about at IN end.
II stayed q month in the Philippines.
From there we went over to Japan and
visited Toxic. the capital.
Their army IL well equipped and
disciplined. I found that the japanese
are paying great attention to their
navy. too. The japanese corps OF ca
Gets Is we'll instructed on a system
very much ike our own. They pay a
good deal Of attention to physical drill
and gymnastics"
The party crossed over to Port Ar
thur and journeyed on to Pekin.
We were there a short time" he
said. "Thcre, you know. the United
States has q small detachment Of
troops, known as the Legation Guard.
Everything Is perfectly quiet in Pekin.
We had an audience with the En-
peror and the Empress Dowager. and
we saw something Of the Chinese
army"
In leaving Pekin General Miles and
his party %joIrneyed to Northern Man
churia and by railroad train all the
way to st. Petersburg. Paris and Lon
don.
We were eighteen days. travelling
all the time" said General Miles. from
Pekin to Moscow on the cars. While
we were at st. Petersburg We were
twice invited to meet the Czar-once ut
the festival. called the Blessing Of the
|, Waters really the Russian New Year.
/ and again to an audience at the grand
ball ut the Winter Palace.
BET we were too late for the first
Invitation because we were delayed a
day. and to accept the second invita-
ton would have delayed me q week"
Then General Miles turned to his re-
ception by King Edward at Windsor.
II had q most pleasant reception" he
said. why was Mrs. Miles not In.
vited to Windsor? 1t was all q mis-.
take. They did not know that Mrs.
Miles was travelling with me. She has
been invited everywhere else with me.
Lord Knollys wrote me q very frank
letter In which he explained that 1t
was not known that Mrs Miles was In
the party"
One feature of the trip across the
Atlnntic for the General was the send.
ing Of q Marconigram to King Edward
VII, when the Lucania was eighty
miles from the Marconi station Mt
Crook Haven. General Miles sent the
following message:
, "Mid.ocean greeting. with best
wishes for happiness and health to His
Majesty and the royal family"
To which the following reply was
received by cable on the arrival OF the
Lucaria In port:
II nave submitted you message to
the King. I am commanded BY His
Majesty to thank you for your good
wishes. and to say for him that 1t at
forded him much qualification to re.
ceivc sou ar Windsor. KSOLLYS.'
General Miles took n train for West
Point. returned later and went to
Washington. ..