Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20

| anese lines. On the Russian side we will
| be represented by one brigadier general,
| one colonel and five captains of the army,
one lieutenant commander and one lieu
| tenant of the navy. With the plrcky
| Japs we will have one colonel, one major
| and three captains of our land forces and
one lieutenant commander of our fleet
All branches of our army-artillery, cav
airy, infantry and engineers-Wlll be
represented within the battle lines of the
| Slavs: all except cavalry on the side OF
the Japanese. A member of our general
staff will be with each army Five of
these military observers have been de
tailed from Manila, two from this coun-
! try. Three were already at the seat of
war when the first gun was fired at Port
Arthur.
Our War and Navy Departments have
realized these months past that bloody
conflict in the orient was inevitable and
that lessons of inestimable value to us
were to be learned from it. These four
teen Yankee war observers were selected
with great care. They are all men of sur
passing courage and perspicuity. They
will keep their ears and eyes wide open,
| but at the same time carefully observe
the delicate formulas of international law
governing men of their status.
Their Sacred Persons.
They will be entertained as the official
| guests of the respective belligerents to
whom accredited. They will wade into the
! gore of battle and will divide their time be-
tween the headquarters of the highest royal
personages In the theater of war and those
of the commanders-in-chief. They will en-
| joy the protection accorded always to nom
combatants. Any deliberate attempts
| against their lives or safety, the part of
either the Russians or Japanese, will be
resented by our government as a serious in
| suit Such an act might lead to a bloody
war between the United States and the Of
| Tending government.
Our observer of highest rank on the Rus
| sian side is Brig Gen. Henry T. Allen, chief
| of the Philippine constabulary. Foreseeing
| the approach of the conflict he two months
ago obtained leave of absence from Manila.
| and at his own expense made long tour
| of study through Korea and Manchuria.
| Inasmuch as he was for several years our
| military attache at the court of the car,
! he is well known to the Russian officers,
and will be at home among them. Col.
| John B. Kerr, who will represent our gen
Grad staff the Russian side, is cavalry
officer and a native of Kentucky He has
left Manila to join the Russians, as have
! Capt. Carl Reichman of the 18th Infantry
and Capt. Geo. G. Galley of the Artillery
Corps. Capt. Reichman is a German, who
enlisted in our army as a private IN 81 and
worked his way up through the ranks
gaining a commission in three years OF
service. He was captain and assistant adj
iutant general of volunteers during the
Spanish-American war and captain of the
regular army since that struggle. Capt
Galley is a native of Maine and West
Pointer. He leaves the 18th Field Artil-
! lery in the Philippines to join the. cars
army. The other two military observers on
the Russian side are Capt. VIM. v. Judson,
hoosier and a West Pointer, who has
| lately been attached to the office of the
chief engineer at Washington, and Capt.
Andre w Brewster, a Jerseyman, commits
l.,
Brewster is our military attache at Peking,
| China, where he was doing duty when the
present war opened.
| Our ranking observer on the Japanese
side is Col. f. H. Crowder. the general
staff's authority on military law. He has
| lately been attached to the War Depart
ment as assistant judge advocate general.
| He is Missourian, a West Pointer and an
| ex-cavalry officer. Maj. Oliver E. Wood,
| who will also observe the struggle from
the standpoint of the mikado's army is our
| military attache at Seoul and Tokyo, at
which latter capital he was serving when
| hostilities commenced. He is Connecticut
Yankee, who enlisted in the Union army as
private in 49, won cadetship at West
Point year later and was a major In the
Artillery Corps when accredited to Seoul
and Tokyo The three other army officers de-
tailed on the Japanese side are Capt. j. F.
Morrison, Goth Infantry; Capt ]. E. Kuhn,
| Engineer Corps-both of whom have de-
parted for Mainland Capt. Frederick
Marsh, Artillery Corps, lately stationed at
Fort Strong, Mass. These three captains
are West Pointers and men of thorough
technical training
Like Dreyfus' Bureau.
In Washington there is maintained under
the War Department bureau Of military
intelligence, corresponding to the bureau of
the French army to which the martyred
Dreyfus was attached The head of this
Office, Maj. w. D. Beach. 10th Cavalry, is
member of the new general staff To him
all of our military observers in the orient
will report such data as they gather at the
| seat of war, the modus operandi being the
Same as in the case of our regularly ac-
credited military attaches at the great Eu-
re,pean courts.
| Under the Navy Department there is a
similar bureau in charge of Capt. Seaton
| Schroeder, u. s. N, TO whom our three
naval observers accredited to the belliger-
ent powers will report Lieut. Com. G, C.
Marsh, our naval attache at Picking and
Tokyo, will study the war from the Jap
anese feet while Lieut.. N. A. McCully, late
| of the United States dispatch boat Dolphin,
| will be attached to the Russian feet. Lieut..
Com. r. c. Smith. our naval attache at
Paris and St. Petersburg. will study the
mobilization OF the Russian army on the