The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-05-22
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81 fhr niisd @fMt~N 81 apparent 20
,srgy ona ~hg Is a, all sa toaeh @iih
army and national saaFa affairs
. The pguphary IL fsee}Y made by Ger
erAi pYaip and others high TIA saeh
matters that SIS another uve Years
Hels sam II heed arises all bs sh1@
60 put into the field a division Of
sharfsshouiers. says ths Chicago Ia
tsr.oevan
rssls mas meaa ansshefe ffom g.
coo ia I zoe mgn @ha are ahls.
each u them. 80 kili a egup ~ soc
yards. turkey Mt thousand. and
mao q mile and a quarter Hway
That mas sound like pretty tall
shooting bat K must bs RENE mberea
/ ,hat this g. an age ~ long ranEo.
email arms az wonderful aceurg RS.
and the nation whleh fails io devote
/ sjFclsss care and labor "a ANAL arms
practice will find itself veFt serious
J ly handicapped In land operations.
whsn facing an enemy that has
brought more of its soldiers 20 The
standing 81 expert marke&men
President Roosevelt. hy BIS stand
Sd such matters. has given great
impetus 10 the work 81 the army
beard having charge ~ Workmanship
and to he various national guards
and civic associations throughout
the country From nearly every state
In the union come reports Of In
creased interest and activity In rifle
shooting Spring practices are al
ready being held. In number OF
states hitherto without adequate
ranges, OF with no ranges at all, APP
propriations have been made for the
purchase or long rental OF sites. the
erection OF modern targets and
shooting lodges. and the placing OF
suoving figures.
The RusRian-Japauese war aecen-
tuates the lessons taught by the
Spanish American and South Afri-
can conflicts as to the desirability of
better individual Workmanship. Both
armies in that great war were we'll
supplied with ordinary riflemen,
but the Russians were far ahead OF
the Mikados army in the matter OF
rifle experts. This is acknowledged
by the Japanese themselves, and the
death roll OF Japanese officers kill
ed at Pingyang, Liaeyang, Port Ar
thur and Mukden is evidence of the
Russian superiority in this respect.
At the siege and assault upon Port
Arthur Japanese officers We're pick
ed off in scores at long distances,
/ and this despite the fact that in
majority of cases they wore neither
/ distinguishing marks nor uniforms.
This convinced the Japanese that the
enemy was using telescopes in con
nection with long range rifles and
thus were able to pick out those in
/ authority.
General Ichinohle was twice shot
through the right shoulder once at
distance of 800 yards and again
when he had retired to more than
$50 yards. Both bullets passed en-
tirely through. but the wounds indi-
7 Gated that the same ritle-one OF an
especially small bore-had sent both
/ bullets. General Takagagi, in the
same siege, received Russian steel
bullet in the neck while he was sur
veying a battery OF the coXcomb Sc
/ ries from a distance of more than
I ,450 yards a few minutes later, in
I charge upon the battery, Takag-
! agi received simultaneously three
/ bullets in the breast.
J No one ever will know how much
single rifle ball at Santiago CON
! tributed toward bringing the Span
ish-American war to an early close.
I The writer has heard certain high
officers OF the United States army
say that in their opinion that one
bullet-fired contrary 10 orders
saved hundreds, perhaps thousands
of lives.
/ 1t was Sergeant Mclnerny, OF the
I Ninth infantry, who fired the shot
at distance OF more than 1900
yards which nearly severed Gener-
al Linare.s arm from his body and
gave the supreme command 70 Gen
eral Tuul Sergeant Mclneyny was
the most advanced soldier of the
American forces for nearly three
hours aud f was while hc held this
place chat rnr shot was made and
undoubtedly Had the effect of chang
ur the spanish program.
he had asyu position iu tree
Beyond. within fhv hreistwurks. hy
noticed .",..trt au officer upon
. a. H.. apparently making au
....... uf tH. entire front Ma
iu ..m-H fhr order had
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.... Haals.d u ..mtd at thc
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.aar Was General llnau.s.
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.I previously .sH0eeI aa opinion
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"fIva. assumed eHmmand a
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