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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
VIEWS OF THE EXPERTS,
st. Petersburg Expects Repetition Of
Liaoyang Tactics


ST. PETERSBURG, October 5.-The mill
tary critics at st. Petersburg share in the
general uncertainty as to how to size up
the situation at the front if Field Marshal
Oyama makes his anticipated advance.
They seem to agree that a strong screening
movement is in progress Immediately east
of Liaoyang that probably feint will be
made from the west, that the tactics of the
Japanese at Liaoyang will be repeated and
that General Kuroki will try a wide flank
ing movement from the east. Some of the
critics point out that the conditions at Port
Arthur may force change of Oyama S
plan of campaign.
The continued failure of the attacks on
the fortress and the enormous losses sus-
tanned by the besiegers they think may
compel Oyama to dispatch some veteran
troops from the Manchurian army to Cen
eral Nodzu's support, the reinforcements
arriving at Port Arthur are mostly reserve
men.
Unstinted praise is bestowed on Lieuten-
ant General Stoessei for the heroic defense
made by the garrison, which naturally IS
increasing the hope that the fortress may
hold out. In the meantime General kuro-
patkin Is receiving reinforcements, especial
ly artillery. Nevertheless, all the experts
express great doubt whether kuropa tkln
contemplates more than passive resistance
at Mukden, where, they say, the topo-
graphical conditions are unfaVorable Tor de-
tense 1t is considered significant that the
critics generally agree that Tie Pass is a
better position both for defense and OF
fense being protected by the Lao river on
the west and offering strong positions on
the Kama range on the east. The general
conclusion is that the Japanese forces Will
show their hands in a very short time,
Evidence is accommodating that japanese
officers are at the head of the bands or
Chinese bandits operating on kuropatkln $
right flank, and the continued reports OF
agitation among the Chinese, spread by the
a5tiforeign propaganda are increasing the
feeling of anxiety. These factors VIII soon
have to be seriously reckoned with by Rus
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
TO SAVE THE BIRDS.
Effort to Apply Land Laws to Islands
at Mouth of the Mississippi.

The Secretary of the Interior has trans
mitted to the President a request that an
executive order be issued reserving the is
lands of Breton, Old Harbor and Freema-
son, at the mouth of the Mississippi river
as government land to prevent the whole
sale slaughter of the birds of these islands
The initiative step in connection with the
reservation of the islands was taken by the
Secretary of Agriculture, who requested
that some action be taken with regard to
the preservation of the birds. Represen-
tations have been made, and found to be
true, that the islands are the stamping
ground for pot hunters, who were slowly
exterminating many of the varieties of
birds in which the islands abound.
The matter was brought to the attention
of Secretary Hitchcock, who directed that
request be sent to the President to re-
serve the islands under the land laws as
government land, thus throwing about
them the protective regulations relating to
the killing of game on public land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
A RUSSIAN REPORT.
japanese Charged With Cruelty te
Koreans

POSSIET BAY, Russian Manchuria, Tues
day, October 4.-Oelayed in transmission.)
The Japanese minister at Seoul has de-
manded that every town in Korea furnish
contingent of forty to sixty men for the
army now being organized, but the en-
peror of Korea refused to do so. The
Japanese none the less continue to recruit
Koreans under the pretense of employing
them as coolies. 1t is reported that they
recruited six hundred men at Ping Yang,
dressed them in uniforms, sent them to
Manchuria and placed them in the front
line, fastened to posts, until nearly all of
them were killed. The Russians found only
one man alive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
AUTO OVERTURNED.
Two Severely Injured in Accident in
Chicago.

CHICAGO, October 5.-Crushed beneath
their overturned automobile. John Merrill.
retired South Chicago banker, and his
WIFE were held prisoners while a number of
men struggled to lift the heavy machine.
When released Mrs. Merrill was found to
be severely injured, one leg being broken.
She was unconscious for some time. Mr..
Merrill was badly bruised about the head
and shoulders.
Mr. Merrill was running the machine at
good rate when the front wheels struck the
car tracks. The automobile slipped along
the wet rails for some distance, then sud
denly turned and dashed to the side of the
street There the front and rear wheels on
the right side slipped into a small culVert
and the machine was overturned
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THE REPORTS CONFLICT.
Both Sides Claim Victory in This
Fight.

TOKYO. October 5.-The japanese report
on the Changtan junk incident Is in direct
contradiction to the Russian version. The
Japanese report says that on September 80
forty or fifty of the enemy's cavalry at
tempted to burn numser of the junks
north of Changtan. The Japanese patrol
on both sides of the Hun river fired on and
dispersed the Russians. 1t is further stated
that no Japanese ammunition Is being
transported on the Hun river above Chang
tan. 1t is said that the attempted burning
of the junks was to prevent the Japanese
from utilizing them.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg, October
]. said that September 80 detachment Of
Russian cavalry drove the Japanese from
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05

THIS COUNTRY SOVEREIGN.
An Exequatur to Be Issued to Chilean
Consul in Canal Zone

After careful consideration of the inter-
national points involved the State Depart
ment has decided to issue temporary
exequatur to Geronimo Ossa as consul for
Chile in the canal zone. The exequatur will
be directed to the governor of the canal
zone, authorizing the consul to exercise his
functions therein.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
Increased Importance Of Trinidad.

In report to the State Department Con-
sui General Holloway at Halifax, Nova
Scotia. says that letter received in Trini-
dad by the last mail from an official in
London confirms the report published some
weeks ago that Trinidad is to be made in
the immediate future the principal British
naval. military and dock yard station In the
West Indies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
BRYAN's oRAToRY DEMANDED.
He Will Make Sixty-Five Speeches in
Ten DAYS.
TO The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, Oct. 5-Fifty-twe
speeches win be delivered by William Jen-
nings Bryan in Indiana in eight days from
October II to October 90 After his speech
at Glenwood Park, between New Albany
and Jefrersonville. on the night of October
20, he will go to West Virginia, at the re-
quest Of the democratic national committee,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
ANOTHER CABINET CHANGE.
Contemplated Retirement Of Attorney
General Moody


Official circles are interested in the con-
templated appointment of Attorney Gem
eral Moody to the United States Senate.
The gossips predict the possible nomina-
ton of Solicitor General Hoyt to be At
torney General. Mr.. Hoyt is prominent in
Pennsylvania politics and was a great fa-
vorite of Attorney General Knox when the
latter was at the head of that department
1t is said that Pennsylvania will ask for
the appointment of Mr. Hoyt.
Wisconsin Association to Take Action.
There. will be meeting of the Wisconsin
Association at the Dewey, Hotel tomorrow
evening at O'Clock to take appropriate ac-
ton on the death of Postmaster General
Henry c. Payne. The following committee
has been appointed to prepare resolutions
and recommend such action as may be
deemed proper to take concerning this sad
event Assistant Attorney General Louis A.
Pradt of the Department of Justice. Indian
Commissioner w. A. Jones of the Interior
Department and John d. King of the Post
Office Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05
SANTO DOMINGO REVOLT.
Dominican Gunboat Sailed for Southern
Coast-Vice President Resigned.

CAPE HAYTIEN, Hayti, October g.
Special advices received here by the CORE
spondent of the Associated Press from
Monte Cristi, republic of Santo Domingo,
announce that Gen. Candelaria de Las
Rosas, with fifty men, revolted against the
government, September &c, in favor of Is
dore Jimenes and started for the interior
The Dominican gunboat Prcsidente, with
80 troops on board, has sailed for Bara-
hona, on the south coast of Santo Domingo
Ramon Cacores, vice president of Santo
Domingo, has resigned.
Isdore Jimenes should not be confounded
with Gen. Juan JimeneZ, the former presi-
in New York city.
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the village of Changtan and burned seven
teen junks, which were transporting ammu-
milton on the Hun river. The cavalry re-
tired, it was stated, on the approach of Jap
anese reinforcements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-05

How many canvassers
would it take to call on all
The Stars readers in a SIM
gle day? About seven
thousand. A Star ad. is a
canvasser at small cost.
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thy at the death of the Postmaster Cen

eral:
LONDON, October S.
1.-The Post Office Department Washington.
Lord Stanley, his majesty's postmaster
general. and Mr. Darlington Smith, secre-
tary of the British post Office desire to ex-
press their deep sympathy with the post
Office of the United States in the heavy loss
which it has sustained in the death of Mr..
H. c. Payne, the Postmaster General"
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Rights Vested in Nominees.

Is. As soon as the nominations were
made by the conventions and duly certified.
rights of nominees to places upon official
ballot under the designation, republican
ticket" became vested in them as repre-
sentatives of their respective organizations.
subject to the decision of the special tri-
bunal aforesaid, as to which OF the conven-
tions was regular and such right could.
therefore, not be in any way affected BY tha
determination of any other tribunal
l6-Section 50 of the statutes cOntem-
plated in all cases mentioned therein Of
conflicting claims a. to the use on the on
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-11-02
President Roosevelt's War Record.

ed, and no one of them was written
by any man who saw the alleged he
roic charge against the San Juan ket-
tie. Roosevelt says, in his Trough
Riders" page 125, that he tried 10 find
General Sumner and General Wood
and could not Colonel Mills was
wounded and out of action long be-
fore the charge. Recommendations
in general terms, by subordinates
amount TO nothing. Such unofficial
recommendations may be had for the
asking. -.
The charges contained in the bro-
chure. published in 1900, remain unan-
swered; the charges of the August
Army and Navy Critic remain ,unan-
swered. And ] repeat, and defy any
man with knowledge to ref1te
them. "a Is
General Macarthur obtained his pro-
motion as .Major-General by making
a report about his maneuvres in the
capture of the city of Manila, which
we now know to have been sham
battle, and Admiral Dewey swore be-
fore a committee of Congress that the
city had practically surrendered TO him
a week before and it was arranged
that the Spaniards We're not to fire
back.
| Colonel Il uuStOn OOldlueu MS promo
ton as brigadier-general upon his OWL
report of his own heroic deeds in the
capture of Aguinaldo, which we now
know to have been put up by Aguin
aldo himself, who says, in Everybody
Magazine of August, 1901, that the Ia
dies had come over the day before
from Casiguran to Palinan to have q
dance, thus traversing the very road
over which Funston passed in his hor
rible privations- =.
Colonel Roosevelt has obtained pro
motions by false report in his ''Rougt
Riders" of his own heroic deeds in an
imaginary charge on an imaginary
horse up an imaginary hill against I'm
aginary Spaniards.
ALEXANDER s. BACON,
81 Liberty street, New York City.
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COLONEL BACON'S HOT SHOT
I will GEa One Thousand Dollars TO Any Person Who Will
Prove That One Line Of That Article is
Not Strictly True"
WAS EUTENANT-COLONELR ROOSEVELT
A GOOD SOLDIER, OR DID HE HAVE
A GOOD PRESS AGENT?

Republican Campaign has issued pamphlet called oos
der OF the Rough Riders acting for the Campaign Committee sending
abused
This pamphlet
lis
in articl
wherein
BEEN ANSWERED The
no
- ~ 80 N'' 'uteu9
the charges
house
July T. 1885, by the " - '' ""
2coione dnotse
position where see one - " 49, 'S NV. u"
5coon
San Hill is - - - oo@S" W
hills
5Ih Infantry lain
did not
they had - " ~ " SePe mat
had
road to Santiago half
N' s'@'S "eoN mgr"
Err the infantry had Kettle Hill
h0"sn taers came out the tall
his absolutely 800 ~ NFO'.'
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was reinforced by another company"
The artillery on San Juan consisted OF
two old pieces that looked as IL they
were a hundred years old, mounted on
rickety old carriages. They were eft
behind. This echelon of San Juan was
attacked by 1900 Americans with light
batteries and Gatling battery-thir-
ty to one. The American loss at San
Juan, in killed and wounded, was more
than a thousand by the official figures.
The Spanish loss was substantially
nothing. Every Spaninrd killed or
wounded four Americans. The per-
centage of American loss ut San Juan
was twice that of the British at the
'.bloody" battles of Tugeia River. The
Spanish loss is unknown, but was
practically nothing.
One of the regular officers, who was
one of the first TO ascend the San Juan
asked, before the Seventy-tirst Regi-
ment Court of Inquiry, What did you
see on arriving ut the top of the hillf"
replied Nothing" q. Nothing at
alIE'' 4. Nothing but scenery" q.
'.No Spariurds:' \. We'll, Il few
might be seen in the distance retiring
to their trenches" The fact is that as
soon as the Americans formed Inc of
battle and proceeded mp the hill ut
dbOul. ls'Bb ~ ul.s NAAN spa hAHAi SNtl
line retired to their breastwOrks around
Santiago, which We're never captured,
but We're surrendered with the city on
July IL.
About 500 yards in front OF the San
Juan hills VAS 4 small stream called
Purgatorio Creek, with densely wood
ed banks. 1t flowed close by Il slight
rise called Kettle Hill, which was also
far in front of the San Juan Hills. As
far as known, Kettle Hill had never
concealed Spanish soldier in the his
tory of the world, and its only FORTH
fcation consisted of an old iron kettle
that gave its name to the Americans.
For hours the infantry had been lying
in sunken road, in advance of Kettle
of it because there was nothing to go
after. But when the infantry left the
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sunken road and captured the block.
house, Colonel Roosevelt and the
Rough Riders marched from the miIIet
field, behind this hill and Purgatorio
Creek, and frantically charged up Ket-
tie Hill 1t was attended with little
more danger than an attack on the
City Hall in New York. The San Juan
hills directly beyond It had no In
trenchments, and had already been
abandoned by the Spaniards.
His Staying the fleeing Spaniard less
than thirty feet away sounds much
like murder. No regular officer foun
it necessary to establish his reput.
ton by an account OF exuItant bloc
thirstiness. They accepted the paint.
duty of fighting the enemy as one OF
the sad necessities of war and sought
to win no glory by gloating over the
widows and orphans they were forced
to make. Colonel Roosevelt stands out
against the lurid horizon of war as the
solitary autObiOgrapher from the days
Of Caesar till now to write himself
down boastingly as a slayer Of his fell
bowman, and that, too, at such close
range.
Having examined under oath about
100 participants in the San Juan en-
gagement, and having in my posses
sion the stenographer's transcript OF
their testimony, am prepared to state
that Colonel Roosevelt did not so much
as see a Spaniard on July !, 1898, and
was not In position where he could
see one. -
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LETTER NO. 1.
AT Foot of San Juan Hill.

July ]. 1898.
This has been a day of terror and
yet tlhis evening finds me singularly
cool AND calm. The fighting
lery duel, in which our artillery seems
to hayIe got the worst of it. hear that
CRIMES has been shelled out of his po-
Siftisi, on Ell Pozo and that Caprofi's
artillery was worse than useless. You
see, our artillery was using black pow
der, while the Spanish used smokeIess
powder. So while we were a perfect
mark for them, we could not locate
their batteries at all. The casualties
have been pretty heavy. I hear to-
night that our division has lost about
$50 killed and 1000 wounded. Our
regiment lost something over 100
killed and wounded, but 1 don't know
just how many. 1 thought we would
be the whole thing on account of hav-
ing taken this hill, but the adjutant
twho is now Lieutenant Koehler) says
the Rough Riders will get all the credit
because they have their press agents
along. And, what do you think, they
We're not even in the fight. They left
the main advance column early in the
morning. and going off to the right
got lost somewhere in the chaparral
and did not get out again until to-
along the line and find the army strung
out like this: Letter contains n map
not thought necessary to reproduced
Ed.
1t is a pretty thin line, but 1 guess
we will be able to hold our position.
The regulars are simply wonderful as
fighters. They so at 1t just as If it was
sport instead of tragedy, and the fact
that men are killed and wounded con-
tinually don't seem to bother them at
all. They take it as matter of course.
I'm glad I'm regular. They
go ahead and do their business without
any fuss or feathers. But I'm sorry
that we will not get any credit for our
work. They say our charge will make
Roosevelt President some day. and that
that is the only thing he went into the
war for-just politics. Well, suppose
I shouldn't kick, as am looking for
laurel wreath myself. The adjutant
says I'll never be heard of unless
should chance to get killed, when I
will occupy one line in the papers in
the list of dead and wounded.
When i was over on the right flank
about an hour ago the Rough Riders
We're just getting up to the line in the
position assigned them. Where they had
been all day don't know, but the talk
is that they were having sport on hill
somewhere in the rear. 1 will proba-
bly, know more about this tomorrow
or next day. 1t is rumored that we
will advance again tomorrow and
drive the Spanish into the harbor. They
retired in pretty good order to-day, as
they only left eight dead on the hill
and no wounded, so far as 1 know.
= Just how many are in the op-
posing army / do not know, but IL is
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MOST HUMILIATlNG FRAUD
Col. Baeon's Review Of the Events Of July l. 1888
Daring Capture of an lIHdefsnded Field kttGnas1
With Imaginary Slaughter.
ROOSEVELT AT SAN JUAN OUT FOR
GLORY HAVING BEFORE HIS EYES
THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

We now come to the most humlliat-
ing fraud in recent history-the cele-
brated battle of San Juan, in the Span
ish War of 1893, which has given
scores of brevets for every dead Span
lard.
The first act in the drama was to re-
move every West Pointer from heads
of departments excepting the engi-
neers and ordnance, which contain
graduates only, because West Point
ers and contractors are natural born
enemies. The next act was to put in
command of the army of invasion an
officer who was wholly incompetent
to serve in a tropical climate, weigh
ing 800 pounds and having permanent
physical disabilities.
The facts of the battle are briefly as
follows: General Skaters plan of bat
tie seems to have been all right, but
was not carried out. General Lawton
was expected IN capture FL Caney by
. o'clock in the morning; then turn TO
his left and form the right wing of the
attack on the San Juan hills; the CEN
tire to be occupied by Wheeler and his
cavalry; the left by Kent and the in
fantry. Ell Caney was not captured
until 40 in the afternoon. In the
meantime the Wheeler and Kent divis-
ions simply drifted toward San Juan,
through dense jungle, of which there
had been no reconnaissance, and the
Spanish skirmish line on San Juan eX-
ercised itself at target practice from
G O'clock in the morning until 100 in
the afternoon, simply shooting ut the
roads and trails where the American
troops were helpless, in column.
81. Is it not high tim that some of the
mists surrounding the battle of San
Juan were raised? The War DeDart-
ment, when asked how many Span
iards We're IN Santiago when it sur.
rendered, and how many Spaniards
We're killed and wounded at San Juan
and Ell Caney, states in a letter that
they have no records that throw any
light ON the subject. Prominent OF.
fcers, who have Knowledge, give eva
sive replies. Lieutenant Jose Muller
Y. Tejeiro, second in command OF ma.
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val forces of the Province OF Santa
go, in his history, which has been
Translated in part by the Navy Depart
ment, gives only 5000 effective Span
ish soldiers in and about Santiago
on July 1. Escario and his column
did not break in until the Sd, and there
We're about POO sick in hospital. Their
food consisted exclusively of rice and
water; their ammunition was scarce;
their artillery consisted of thirteen
pieces of antique patterns some of
which they did not dare discharge.
Santiago had not been prepared for a
siege. These 5000 men had over ten
miles to cover, and were attacked at
five different points simultaneously:
~ The fleet menaced MORO Castle
and the Socapa battery at the mouth
of the bay. (2) Five thousand Cubans,
whose losses were heayy-Bonsal says
p.444) their percentage of loss was if
ty per cent. greater tina the Ameri-
cans'-were active, and harassed them
on the west. 81 Aquadores was men
aced by demonstration of Michigan
troops just landed. ca Ell Caney was
attacked by about COCO men; and %
San Juan by about 1900.
According to Lieutenant Muller. the
San Juan hills were occupied by a
mere skirmish line of $50 Spaniards
Captain NuneZ says, in his history, al
so translated in part by the Navy (p.
113), that the advance echelOn of San
Juan. consisting of two companies un-
der the command OF Colonel Vaquiero.