The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-21
ARMY OFFICERS WIFE
STOPPED IN JAPAN.
Mrs. }. r.. MOxIey of This City Spent
% Three Days at NagasaIxf,

Mrs. }. r.. MOxIey of This City Spent
81 Three Days at NagasaIxi.
Among the residents of Savannah
who have special interest in condi-
tons is the Far East, now that Japan
and Russia are at war, is Mrs. J. II.
Moxley, who with her husband, Lieut..
j. r. Moxley of the Thirtieth Infantry,
U. S. A., was for some eight months
in the Orient.
Among other places they visited Ja-
pan. Mrs. Monkey stopped at Nagasa-
XII en-. route home, and though the
transport remained at that port only
three days Mrs. Monkey and the other
passengers saw as much of the city
and the surrounding country as was
possible, and was charmed with the
land of the Mikado.
Both Lieut.. and Mrs. Moxley are ma
tives of Georgia, Lieut.. Monkey having
been prior to his appointment to the
army a resident of Wadley, and Mrs
Moxley of Stillmore. Lieut.. Monkey
was barely q years old when he re-
ceiyed his commission and was one of
the youngest officers, If not the young
est, in the Philippines. He was station
ed in Manila when he first went over,
but later went with his command to
Samar.
Mrs. Monkey went with him to Sa-
mar and was probably the first Amer
lean woman ever to penetrate its wilds
She remained there four months, too,
despite the fact that within a short
distance of the American lines was a
hard fighting Filipino general, Cue
vera, with a band of 800 insurgents
They had made things pretty lively in
Samar and though they had finally
been brought to bay, and had prom
Used to surrender they showed no hur-
ry about doing so.
Gueverra claimed that he would sur
render to Gen. Smith, but as that gem
eral had then been relieved of duty,
and was under court-martial tT.al, for
his cruelty to the natives. GucverIa
was notified that he must surrender to
the authorities in charge of the forces
then there. Lieut.. Moxley was one of
two officers who, under a flag of truce,
went to the eneny's lines to convey
to Gueverra this information. The
Filipino finally gave in and later sent
Mrs. Gilmore, wife Of Capt. Gilmore of
the Fifteenth Infantry, his bolo
Mrs. Monkey, in discussing her trip
abroad and stay in the Philippines,
said that she found Manila very pleas
ant indeed and had enjoyed her stay
there. but that Samar was anything
but pleasant and she was glad to get
away from 1t. The visit to Nagasaki
was one of the pleasantest of the trip.
for though the town is hardly typical
of the country, because of the number
of foreign residents and the influence
they have had on the people. there is
still enough of the native atmosphere
to make a visit to 1t most enjoyable.
Mrs Moxley's regret Is that she
hadn't time to see more Of the country.
Among the other interesting places
visited on the trip were Honolulu and
Guam. The passengers were not al
lowed to go ashore at Guam as many
of the soldiers on the transport had
the measles. and the authorities on the
island feared that the residents of the
island might become infected.
Lieut. Moxley, who has been retired
from the army, Is now with relatives
in Wadley, but will leave this spring
for AK1eville where he will go for the
benefit of his health. Mrs. Moxley viii
Join him at Asheville.