The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-27
ARMY AND NAVY NEWS

treatment of that disease by the APP
plication of mercury, used with SO
much success at the naval hospital at
Las Animas. Colo, by Surgeon B. L.
Wright, T. S. n, in the treatment of
tuberculosis. The treatment at Guam
has not proceeded sufficiently to pro
duce definite results and there is moth
ing especially encouraging which the
observers have to report. The leper col
ony in Guam consists of nineteen eases,
all natives. the proportion of afflicted
being about one in 600 of the popula-
ton The naval surgeons have been
doing most effective work with the dis
ease at that place.
Summer Battleship Maneuvers.
Owing to the delay in getting the bat
tleships of the Atlantic feet ready, the
program for the summers work has
been set back accordingly. The tenta-
tive program provides that the sixteen
battleships shall arrive at Hampton
roads as soon after June IL as possible
The feet will be reassembled very much
as it was on the return from sthe world
cruise, except that the New Hampshire,
Idaho and Mississippi win take the
places of the Kentucky, Kearsarge and
Illinois, which were placed in reserve
for repairs, and the Maine the place of
the Missouri, temporarily. On the 18th
the feet is scheduled to proceed to sea
for drills and maneuvers outside the
Virginia capes. Anchorage is to be
made at night on the southern drill
grounds. partly for exercise III anchor
ing together and elementary night
exercises. This will he a new feature.
The remainder of the program is as
follows: June "a, return to Hampton
roads; June 90, leave Hampton roads
for New England ports, to give liberty
and spend the Fourth of July; July 2,
ships viii disperse to various New
England ports-Boston, Marblehead,
Gloucester, Rockport, Portsmouth,
Booth bay, Penobseot bay, PASSPORT; !
July Z, fleet reassembles at Rockport,
| Mass, and leaves same day for Prov
incetown, Mass; July 10, arrive at
Provincetown. Mass, for drills and
exercises; August 5, leave for Hampton
roads; August 9, arrive at Hampton
roads: August IA, leave for southern
drill grounds; August 10, commence rec
ord target practise.
The target practise will continue for
several weeks, being combination of
spring and fall practise, and during this
work the feet will probably move off
the Virginia and North Carolina capes
in search of rough water. Reports indi
cate that not more than half of the
ships can leave their yards even by
June II. Owing to this delay i is
| considered doubtful whether much work
of value to the feet can be accomplish
ed on the first part of the program for
drills and maneuvers outside of the Vir-
ginia capes up to June "a. The next
part of the program will begin off
Provincetown, Mass, beginning July -.
Shore liberty for the purpose of cele-
brating July is to cover period from
July to July 6. This will be the
most extended shore liberty given the
men since they left Manila bay last
fall.
i officers Ordered to Exercise.
Systematic exercise is enjoined by
Maj Gen. Wood, commanding the De
partment of the East, on all the officers
on duty in that department, which in,
cludes in its boundaries Fort Myer,
Washington barracks and the posts on
the Potomac river.
cit is absolutely necessary says
Gen. Wood, in general order, "that
all officers shall take an amount of ex-
ercise sufficient to keep them in ex-
cellent physical condition, especially
those who have no opportunity to be
out with the troops. 1t is expected
that those who exercise with the troops