The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-16
MILES RETURNS
 FROM LONG TRIP General and His Party Look
 Hale and Hearty HAVE ClRCLED THE GLOBE Was Impressed With Japanese Army and Navy-system is Very Sim
 liar to That Employed in
 the United States.
HAVE ClRCLED THE GLOBE

New York. February 15.-Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. commanding the United States army his wife and party arrived here today on the Lucania. The general, who has been abroad five months has, in that time, been around the world One feature of the trip across the Atlantic for the general was the sending of a Marconigram to King Edward VII. Fer ruary g, when the Lucania was eighty miles from the Marconi station at 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 Lucania in port to- day:
 T have submitted your message to the king. I am commanded by His Majesty to thank you for your good wishes and say for him that it afforded him much qualification to receive 1t at Windsor
 "KNOLEs."
 With the general were Colonel and Mrs NJ. P. Maus, General Clark Rouse New York; F. B. Wllborg of Cincinnati; Mrs. Miles and Sherman Hoyt
 General Miles Interviewed.
 To his interviewers General Miles said:
 "On the first of October we sailed on the transport Thomas. We stopped at Honolulu, the Sandwich Islands and then sailed for Guam. We touched at the is-
 
 We spent month there. We examined the military situation, examined the prin- cipal forts. and inspected the troops. There were no serious hostilities at that time. The 10000 troops there were in fine 
 He then told of his visit to the military academy in Tolkio, Japan, and said:
 The Japanese army is very well equipp- ed and disciplined and so Is the navy. In the army they have most modern ap pliances. The Japanese are efficient in their system The system of inspection and routine is much the same as ours" Continuing the general told of his visit to Pekin, where his party was accorded an audience by the Emperor and the Dow ager Empress who received them with a great deal of courtesy and attention.
 General Miles party went through northern China to Siberia, passing through Manchuria en route and so on to Moscow.
 "We were eighteen days going from Pekin to Moscow" he said. "The roads are very good and the train service ex- cellent. The weather was very cold at times, but, in my opinion, 1t was no colder than I have experienced in our north west The railroads have as good road beds as the Union Pacific or the Canadian Pacific Erofn Gt patarehuro wa wont to Paris, where we spent five days, thence to London, where we remained eight days, and so on to New York"
 Did Not Meet the czar.
 "Did you have an audience with the czar?' he was asked.
 We received an invitation to meet the czar, but we were delayed a day and did not arrive in time An audience of the Czar would have been given us, but we could not remain. Our invitation ex- tended to grand ball at the winter palace but we reluctantly had to forego the pleasure. I was there five years ago, as the guest of the government and all the officials treated us very courteous y.
 "I paid very pleasant visit to King Edward when we reached England, and was most graciously received"
 Regarding the story that Mrs. Miles was overlooked in the invitation which the general received from King Edward, General Miles said:
 Mrs. Miles was not invited to Windsor through an oversight. It was not known that she was with me. or the invitation had been extended to her also"
 In Paris, the general was the guest of honor at a dinner given at the residence of General Brugere, commanders chief of the French army. General Miles said he was going to West Point to visit his son and was then going to Washington to make his report.
 q will in no manner forecast what will be contained in my report" he added. The general looked hale and hearty