Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-05

a company and Joined the Revolutionary
army. He was wounded and lost an arm
at the battle of Amboy, and for his gal
liant conduct he was made colonel OF
Thruston's additional regiment. which
was consolidated with Gists and Gray
sons regiments. Col. Thruston was there
by "deranged," and so became propo-
situs for the Society of the Cincinnati.
s.
The national life of France is saturated
with the spirit OF suspicion, distrust and
vague unrest which has found remark
able expression in connection with the
mysterious flight of the military airship
La Patrie from it's mornings at verdun
on November 30 1t appears that the
Patrie broke away from the hands OF a
detachment of 200 French troops who had
hold of her guy ropes. soaring aloft in
high wind, and, after sailing over por-
tions of Wales and England. was sighted
over Radnor, in Scotland, and landed in
Ireland December T. Nothing has been
published to show that the escape OF the
ship was other than accidental, yet dis
patches from Paris intimate that belief
prevails in certain military circles that
the Patrie was deliberately set free by
disloyal soldiers with the expectation that
she would drift across the frontier and
into German territory thus enabling the
Germans to solve the mysteries of her
construction.
It is an interesting fact that every
foreign naval expert who has spoken
at all on the cruise of the American.
battleship fleet from the Atlantic to the
Pacific has approved the undertaking.
either as a matter of naval policy or
as a course in practical naval train
ing. The latest of these utterances
comes from Capt. Hebbinghaus. naval
attache to the German embassy at Wash
ington, who is quoted as follows: In
many respects this viii be the most
remarkable cruise ever made by any
navy in the world. Sending sixteen big
battleships on such distance eclipses
anything undertaken in modern times
that is. since the old days, when sailing
ships made trips in great numbers.
Everything in connection with the cruise
has been carefully planned, the prepara-
tions appear to me to have been made
with painstaking thoroughness and
believe that as a result everything VIII
move along smoothly until the--battie-
ships reach their destination"
s.
The following promotions to be gem
eral officers occurred this week;
To he major generals-Brig. Gen. William
S IoCaskey (since reured)' from April To-
1907 vice Wade. retired,
Brig. Gen. William p Duvan from october
@ 1907 vice Mccaskey, retired
To tie brigadier generals-Col. Albert y.
Mver. Eleventh infantry from March %, 1907
vice whit. deceased.
Col Charles B. Hall, Eighteenth infantry
from Aprii IL 1907 vice Duggan, retired.
cot Earl d. Thomas. Eleventh cavalry,
from April Is. 1907. vice McCaskey, appointed
major general.
col Charles Morton Seventh cavalry, from
April 49, 1907 vice Markiey. retired
col. Charles l.. Hodges, Twenty fourth IN
fantry. from April 80, 1907, vice Bubb retired.
Col John NJ X Davis, c. A. c., from May
25 1907, vice Williams, retired,
Lieut. Col William w. Wotherspoon, Nine
teenth infantry, from October 2, 1907. Vice Du-
vail appointed major general
COL Charles S, Smith, O D., from October
3. 1907. vice Godfrey. retired.