Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17
Story Week Has Told
Comprehensive Survey of Latest Events in United
...-.-. States and Abroad.
BY HENRY w. BUM

(The following is a brief of the most
important news of the world Tor the
seven days ended May 49,
United States of America. - Lieut..
Gen. Nelson Appleton Miles, L. 5. A,
retired, died suddenly on May Is. He
was born in Massachusetts in 1899.
His great grandfather and grandfather
fought in the Revolution. He was
clerk in Boston at the outbreak of the
Civil War, which he entered as first
lieutenant in the 22d Massachusetts,
Infantry. Within a year he had risen
to be colonel of the 61st New York
Volunteers, and at the wars close he
was major general of Volunteers in
command of corps. lie participated
in all the major operations Of the
Army of the Potomac, except the Get
tysbsurg campaign, during which he
was incapacitated by dangerous
wound received at Charlottesville.
He was three times wounded. He
was conspicuously one of the Civil
War heroes by reason of his youth,
his notable gallantry and the splendor
| OF his appearance. In 1866 he was
commissioned colonel in the Regular
Army. He became major general in
| 1890; in 1895 he succeeded Gen. Soho
| field as commanding general; in 1900
he was promoted lieutenant general;
| in 1903 he retired.
A commanding general during the
Spanish-American War he personally
commanded the expedition to Porto
Rico.
Fine as was the Civil War record
| of Gen. Miles, his distinctive fame is
that of Indian fighter, against the
| Cheyennes, the Kiowas, the Co
| manches, the Sioux, the NeZ Perces
and the Apaches. He finished off
| Chief Joseph, Sitting Bull and Zero
| nimo. He ended the Indian wars.
He was, perhaps the greatest of our
Indian fighters, sufficient distinction.
A magnificent soldier; fine subject for
a biographer of genius.
Amy Lowell. poetess and critic, and
sister Of A. Lawrence Lowell, presi-
dent of Harvard, died of a paralytic
stroke on May IL. The loss to Amer
| lean letters is a great one. Miss Low
ellis experiments in cadence verse
and "polyphonic prose" may or may
not have quite justified themselves;
but there is no doubt about the curl
Gus beauty Of much of her verse, nor
about her Importance as critic, trans
lator and interpreter. Not least
charming and valuable of her volumes
is the Fir Flower Tablets" English
versions of Chinese lyrics, in collabor-
alton with Miss Ayscough, the trans.
lator.
| The great Hawaiian Islands war
games made clear certain deficiencies
in the island defenses and in the fleet;
| including the need of a considerable
increase of the strength of the garri-
son, and the need of great improve.
ments of the harbor and entrance
channel if Pearl Harbor is to be d
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requirements for the defense of the
Panama Canal take precedence over
those of the islands, and the Panama
project is far short of realization as to
personnel, material, emplacements,
| etc. No doubt Congress will be urged
at the coming session to provide what
is needful for both canal and islands
1t is good news that Sir Thomas Lip
ton, now turned seventy-five, is
strongly minded to challenge once
more for the American cup.
! The British Empire-Alfred, Wis
! count Miner, is dead of the sleeping
| sickness at the age of seventy-one.
Educated in Germany and at Oxford
after some years at the bar and III
journalism he entered public life. His
first important post was that of under
secretary of finance in Egypt. under
Cromer. Returning to England in
1892, he published his England in
Egypt a most important exposition
of the British work of reform and re-
construction in the land of the Pha
reohs.
The conspicuous ability he display
ed under ensuing appointments led to
his selection in 1897 for the post OF
high commissioner for South Africa
and governor Of Cane COlnnV. most M
high importance because of the deli
lcate situation in South Africa rendered
still more acutely delicate by the
Jameson raid. The selection of Mil
ner by Mr.. Chamberlain. the colonia
secretary, was agreeable to the Lib
erals, who, as he was reputed to be &
moderate Liberal, thought he would
not put the screws on President Kru
ger. But they mistook their man
After exhaustive study of the situa
ton, he concluded that the condition
of the Uitlanders Chiefly British sub
jects) in the Transvaal was that o.