The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-01-23

ith of February.
Captain Charles S. Haight and Lieu.
tenant Thomas H. Cunningham both
Of the Fifth Cavalry; Lieutenant
Franklin o. Jackson and Lieutenant
Philip J. LAUDER of the Second Infan-
try, and Lieutenant Bernard X Pew.
ton, First Field Artillery are the de.
tail for a three months tour of duty
at the military schools, Preside of
Monterey, California
The Transports.
Captain Clyffard Game, in command
OF the United States army transporta.
ton service for the Department of la.
wall, has received cable advices to
the effect that the U. S. A. T. Thomas
which left Manila, Philippine Islands,
on the 14th of this month, arrived in
due time at the regular japanese port.
leaving Nagasaki, Japan, on the 2Ist
for Honolulu
There has been a confusion of dates
as to just when the Thomas did leave
Manila coming this way, the 14th com
ing on Sunday The trip for fumiga
ton of the troop and steerage list Of
passengers was made on the regular
date to Mariveles, so that the Sunday
regulation governing the sailing of
L. S. A. transports for a long journey
was ct1,iptIV ObSarvod n. ,.,u ,,.. -
ing the schedule time.
1t is officially announced that there
will be ample accommodations for all
first-class passengers booked to leave
here on the February troorship going
to San Francisco.
The Thomas is expected to reach
here en- route to the coast about the
4th of next month from the Philippine
Islands via Nagasaki.
The U. S. A. r. Dix which left this
port early in December. arrived az
Seattle on December 10, not the Both
as has been reported
The Dix is laid up indefinitely at
Seattle, Washington, undergoing re-
pairs, being under the immediate
command of Colonel William II. Mil
Ter, chief quartermaster, Department
of the Columbia, Z. S. A.
Major MccIure's Papers.
Noting that the German military or
ganization has the corps as the basis
while the Japanese, recent victors in
a gigantic struggle, achieved success
by means Of armies organized directly
from divisions, Major n. f. Mcclure,
L. S. A., 9Th L. S. Cav, finds an ex-
PLANTATION for the difference in the
means of transportation of the two ar
mics, so says the Army and Navy
journal. The Germans expect to fight
where they can move their troops pri-
marily by rail and secondarily over the
broad, smooth highways of Central
Europe, also contemplating the supply
ing of their forces in large measure
by rail, while the Japanese expect to
move their armies over the villainous
roads and broken terrain of Korea,
Manchuria and possibly the Philip,
pines. The division is unit better fit.
ted than the corps for operation in
such a country. Moreover it can hard
~ be said that the Japanese fully solv-
ed the problem of supply in the last
war and for this reason came very
near losing. The difference between
the Japanese and the German systems
is not so great as appears at first
sight for the Japanese division with
its KObi reserve brigade numbers more
than 10000 men. Asking whether the
division is not better suited than the
corps as the basis unit in all the thea.
ters OF war in which our armies are
likely to operate in the next quarter
of a century, Major Mcclure, writing
in the January-February Journal of the
NJ. S. l., answers in favor of the divi-
sion, with the qualification that the di-
vision should lie strong and recruited
to its full strength. ct may be truth
fully said that the properly proportions
ed infantry division is the most finish.
ed of army organization that has been
evolved from the experience of modern
war IT is the masterpiece lIom the
workshop of the military organizer. 1t
is both an administrative and a tactical
unit II has all the essentials 20 make
It complete military machine" In
the campaign in Italy in 1896 Napoleon
had an army of four divisions giving
tolal of 80 coo men, but whel he be-
came First Consul he adopted the
rps organization, each corps being
composed of two or more divisions
His normal corps from Marengo to Wa.
terloo was about three infantry divi
sions 10 which was usually added a
cavalry division, a total of $4,000 men,
$500 horses, forty to fifty guns and
about 500 wagons With his usual sa-
gacity and judgment of men, he varied
these corps in size in accordance with
IN. ,IfIitt.s. Of III, pI.pg u,