The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-03-12
OUR WAR
OBSERVERS
Technically They Will Be
Guests of the Mikado
and Gar.

In the orient has just been opened
I'D vast war laboratory, and fourteen
Yankee ofhcers-the largest delegation
ever entrusted by our government with
such a mission-have been selected to
study therein the bloody science of kill
ing. They await only the formal con-
sent of the belligerent powers before
taking to the field.
Eight of these-six military and two
naval experts-will study the conflict
from the Russian side, while six-flve
from the army and one from the navy
will observe the Struggle within the
Japanese lines. On the Russian side
we will be represented by one br1ga-
der general, one colonel and five cap
tains of the army one lieutenant COM
rlander and one lieutenant of the navy
With the plucky Japs we will have one
colonel, one major and three captains
of our land forces and one lieutenant
commander of our feet. All branches
of our army-artillery, cavalry, infant
~ and enginers-will be represented
within the battle lines of the Slays; all
except cavalry on the side of the Jap
anese. A member of Our general staff
will be with each army. Five of these
military observers have been detailed
from Manila, two from this country.
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
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
between the headquarters of the highest
royal personages in the theater of war
and those OF the comnanders-in-chief.
They will enjoy the protection accorded
always to non-combatantS. Any DELHI
crate attempts against their lives or
safety, on the part of either the Rus
slams or Japanese, wiil be resented by
our government as a serious insult,
Such an act might lead to bloody
war between the United States and the
offending government.
Our observer of highest rank on the
Russian side is Brig. Gen. Henry T.
Allen, chief of the Philippine constabu-
larry. 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 general staff on the Rus
sian side, is cavalry officer and 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 German, who en-
listed 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 adjutant 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 Artillery in the Philip
pines to join the cars army The other
two military observers on the Russian
side are Capt. VIM. V. Judson, a hoosier
and West Pointer, who has lately
been attached TO the office of the chief
engineer at Washington, and Capt An
DIRE w. Brewster. a Jerseyman, COM
missioned from civilian life in 1885.
Capt. Brewster is our military attache
at Picking, China, where he was doing
duty when the present war opened
ltIIr ranking observer on he
nese side IS Col. E. H. Crowder, the
general stats authority on military law.
lie has lately been attached to the War
Department as assistant judge advocate
general. He is a Missourian, West
Pointer and an ex-cavalry officer Mai.
Oliver {. 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 CAP
1tal he was serving when hosti1itfes
commenced. He is a Connecticut Yam
kee, who enlisted in the Union army
as private in '62. won a cadetship at
West Point year later and was
major in the Artillery Corps when ac-
credited to Seoul and Tokyo. The three
other army officers detailed on the Tapa-
nese side are Capt. ]. F. Morrison, Goth |
Infantry; Capt ]. E Kuhn, Engineer |
Corps-both of whom have departed 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 tic |
the bureau OF the French army to which |
the martyred Dreyfus was attached. The
head OF this Office, Mai w. d. Beach,
10th Cavalry. is a member of the new
general staff. To him all of our mill /
tary 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 orr reey,,fa III, o.