The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-12-15

HAS FOUGHT UNDER
4 DIFFERENT FLAGS
Major P. ii. J. Farrell's Most
Unique Record.
Has Been in Eight Wars and Has
Served With Dis
SA tinction.
WAS IN COMMAND OF MEN

records that any soldier in the
world can show. He has been In
only eight" wars, in command of
men He has served with distinc-
ton under four flags and is yet only
40 years old. Wherever there has
been wild work IN the past score
years could be found this dauntless
challenger of fate. Since peace has
befallen the world IN the last few
years he has Withdrawn from his
martial profession and become a
surgeon. He is now recognized as
an authority in his new field and is
professor OF military medicine and
surgery at the Chicago college of
Medicine and surgery.
Although an Englishmsn by birth.
he has twice served under the Stars
and Stripes, once in the China c
petition for the relief Of Pekin, and
again throughout the Philippine cam
palgn. II was in the latter that he
rendered his most distinguished
service.
When Uncle Sam was making hur-
ried preparations to rush 100000
men into the Orient, Maj Farrell
was one OF the first to volunteer his
services to Gen. Anderson. Mai.
Farrell was in the first detachment
to leave and in a position OF com
mand He was perhaps the most
prominent figure in the capture of
the island OF Guam, was the first of
the troops to set foot in the Philip
pines and was the only American
soldier 20 cross the Island of Luzon,
although the hostile Filipino lines
at the outbreak of hostsities.
The whole Filipino insurrection
holds no more daring episode. than
that journey of 1870 miles through a
wild country infested with savage
enemies. and no mission that was
Ifraught with more important results.
Il was on Maj. Farr-ll's report after
his Luzon trip that the plan of the
successful campaign was based. But
lighting savages." he says. sis an
everyday sort of business"
Mai Farrell is the son of Gen.
Farrell, a hotel Irish officer in the
British Indian service. and was
born in Calcutta a. years ago. Ow-
ing to his remarkable physical de-
lvelopment. he was admitted to Wool
witch at an earlier age than most
boys and before he was 20, was
commissioned a subaltern and saw
HIS first service in india during the
Afridi war. He returned TO
England a veteran when most lads
OF his age were still at school. and
at the outbreak of the Zulu war he
was again at the front. In this
campaign he was seriously wounded
Near him the French prince imperial
was killed. At the close Of the
Zulu war he was sent to the Sou
dan and served in the Gordon relief
Expedition.
Back on horseback, In one OF the
lsk,rmishes with the dervishes OF the
madhi, he received another almost
fatal wound. He and his command
charged three times into the thick
est of the madhi's men. He was is
months in the hospital after that
After that he visited South Africa
and India again. and also went ia
Manila. At the outbreak of the
lTonquin was between China ant
Japan he offered his services to th'
| Chinese government. He was g.vei
lcommand Of a regiment and Tough
lTonquin war between China anC
familiar with the language of hi
men, he was forced to invent a sys
tenn of whistle signals In order Il
give commands when his men wen
into action.
At the close OF the war he driftet
to Australia and became a member
OF the governors staff in Queensland
as inspector of mounter police. Hear
ling of a possible mixup between the
republics Of Guatemala and San Sal
vador, he came to America. but re
inclined in San Francisco until the
Gillian revolution. He Joined tbs
army of Gen. Balamaceda in the
conflict of 1891 and after his com
mander's defeat. found himself {
prisoner for two months. Only the
fact that he was a British subject
prevented his being executed.
There are two episodes of his hfC
ofwhich little Is known. One is that
of his supposed connection with the
expedition to carry arms to Chill
which was nipped by the capture Of
the schooners Robert and Minnie by
the unlted States government. This
second was a mysterious mission
from which he returned with a seri'
Gus wound. which confined him t.
the hospital for several months.
Maj. Farrell is an ideal solder II
appearance. He stands over six fee
tall, without an ounce Of overweight
and is erect and 1.-the in carriage
Ten years ago he married an Amer
lean girl after a steamer courtship
voyaglng from Honolulu, and Is thu