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Army and
Navy News

!. Navy News :
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Lieut.. Commander Stanford E. Moses,
U.S.N., who has been detached from |
duty at the Naval Station and with |
the Naval tug Iroquois. leaves today |
on the Siberia for the mainland. ac- |
eompanied by Mrs. Moses. On arriving |
at San Francisco he may receive more |
definite orders. which al present are for |
him to go home and report for duty |
in Washington. He may get leave OF |
absence to spend few weeks with rela-
tives in Colorado.
Lieut.. Moses Leaves.
Lieut.. E. P. Moses, Marine Corps,
who has been adiutant of the marine
battalion at Camp Very, leaves today
on the Siberia for San Francisco and
on arrival there will join the cruiser
Pennsylvania to command the marine
detachment aboard. He will return TO
Honolulu aboard the Pennsylvania.
which is one of Admiral Sebree s feet,
in September.
Lieut.. Shearer and wife and Captain
Snyder of the marine detachment NAV
leave for the Philippines IN the Paeific
Mail s. S. Korea next week.
Lieut.. Wheatley Promoted.
Second Lieut.. Wheatley of the Fifth
Cavalry has been promoted to first
lieutenaney and assigned to duty with
the 18th Cavalry and ordered to the
Philippines for duty Lieut.. Wheatley
has been on detached service in Cali
fornia.
Monsignor Chase, chaplain of the
Fifth Cavalry, leaves for Manila on the
| Sheridan. being assigned as chaplain TO
| the regiment which will be aboard that
| vessel. He will change places with the
| chaplain now aboard who goes to Lei
| lehua.
| viii Ride in December.
| Orders have been received from
Washington directing local army officers
to take the riding test Immediately
| after the first of December. This viii
/ consist of ninety-mile horseback ride,
which will be participated in by Colonel
Schuyler, 9Th Cavalry; Lieut.. Colonel
Hunter, 5th Cavalry; Major Beeeher B.
/ Ray. paymaster. U.S.A-; Major Foster,
| 18th Cavalry: Major Cunning, goth In
/ fantry; Major Winslow, Engineer
i Corps: Major Cree. Artillery Corps; Ma
/ 1or Wadhams. Medical Corps. 1t is pro
/ posed to take trip via the Pail around
i the island, or at least in equal thirty
mile rides daily, camping out two nights
en- route Major Long of the Marine
4 Corps and other marine officers may
h take their test before December, but
theirs will be a ffty-mile walk.
Long Army Service.
H First Sergeant Heinrich C. Boehm,
Troop D, Fifth Cavalry, stationed at
Leilehua, has been retired after twenty
seven years of service. To show how
well off an enlisted man may be after
serving Uncle Sam so long and acquir-
Il ing the higher noff-eommissoned
grades. Sergeant Boehm retires on pay
amounting TO $61 per month for the rest
of his life Sergeant Boehm participant
ed in many of the Indian campaigns
| Another Crack Tennis Player.
| Paymaster lizard, U.s.N., is expected
to pass through on the cruiser Buffalo
en- route 10 San Francisco. Paymaster
lizard is a crack tennis player. He and
E. s. Gee, paymaster s clerk in Major
| Rays office. defeated at Manila last
year, the crack tennis players of the
English army sent over from Hongkong
AS a team they are said TO be hard to
beat. Mr.. Gee~hopes the Buffalo will
stay long enough in port to give lizard
a chance to show what he can do on
tennis court.
Senior Captain Coming.
Captain HoIbrook, senior captain of
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