ABOUT GEN’L PERSHING
IN COMMAND
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A fighting soldier who wins battles by
diplomacy is a rarity. But that Is tlm
distinction accorded Brigadier General
John J 1’ershlng, the "man of sorrow"
ol' the army, whose beautiful wife ami
three baby girls were burned to death
in a lire thai destroyed their home in
Han Francisco on August 27, 1916.
Many and picturesque are the tales
told of this Beau Brummel of the army
- u handsome, dashing soldier, brilliant
in bloodless conquest, hero of romance
and strife: a llnqulst, diplomat, scholar:
a man who won Ills rank as much
through peaceful conquering of Ills ene
mies as through daring leadership in
military campaign against them.
Pershing and the Philippines arc
synonymous. It was Pershing, then
Captain Pershing of the First, later the
Fifteenth cavalry, who drew the task
of subduing the fanatical Moros of Min
danao and Jolo. He was given 2,200 men
•uid free rein. Not one of those men
iviiV
i sacrlried in battle. Instead of be
VKining a war of extermination against
the Moros, Captain Pershing began a
" study of their language. He soon mas
tered their tongue. He assembled tile
Moros, fanatical Mohammedans, on Fri
days (their Sundays), and taking texts
from tlie Koran, talked to them on rec
onciliation with the 1'nited States gov
ernment. In this way, without fight
ing a single battle lie won till but two
of the mountain tribes, and was con
secrated a datto by the sultans of the
tribes.
But with the two trines who spurned
bis efforts at peaceful conquest he show
ed relentless and crushing power. Their
strong mountain forts fell before Ids on
slaught until forty had been captun il
and their last stronghold taken. One
liunderd and seventy live Moros paid
the extreme penalty in hutlle for their
folly, only thirteen American soldiers
| were wounded, non** killed.
ills conquest in Mindanao resulted in
Pershing's appointment as adjutant gi*n
i-rul of that island and Jolo, and Colonel
Roosevelt, then president, surprised the
entire army organization by promoting
him over the heads of 86 ranking officers
to be brigadier general.
Hut t.ds promotion came only after a
bitter struggle that threatened for a time
to blacKen him forever. He had married
the daughter of Senator Warren of Wy
oming a year before promotion. The
wedding was one of the most brilliant
social affairs in the history of the oapi
| ital. Angry criticism arose .some charg
ing that the promotion was clue to fav
oritism. Roosevelt asserted that In* did
not recall at all the fact that General
Pershing was a son-in-law of Senator
Warren when he promoted him.
Of his three little baby daughters who
were ourned to death when his wife lost
her life, one was born in Toklo, Japan,
in 1906, while- the then Captain Persh
ing was military attache at tin* Japanese
ombessy; one was born in Haguio, Philip
pines, in lfwis, and tin- yongest was horn
in Zamboanga. Philippines in 1912.
General Pershing's first lighting ex
periencc was against tin- Indian outlaw,
Geranium on a punitive* expedition into
Mexico in the* late* no's. He later fought
against tin* Sioux Indians in 1 lie Dako
tas, served as military instructor m
cadets at the university of Nebraska
and as administrator of affairs in tin*
irovinoo of Mindanao and Jolo. Philip
pine* islands. H«* speaks almost every
modern mnguage. as wed as the tongues
of many Indian and Philippine tribes.
General Pershing was sent to tin* Mexi
i t»orefer in 1912, and served continu
ously there.
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NO WASTE ON
BATTLEFIELDS
OF TODAY
The question of whul becomes of llic
vast number of broken implements of
warfare, and the uiscarded clothing and
shoes that are commonly supposed to
strew that battlefields where great arm
ies are operating, may he answered, so
far us the. lirltish expeditionary force
is concerned, by a visit to one of the
buses of the lirltish army. All these
things, form the big gun, which has
been shattered by a shell, to the small
est part Oi Tommy Atkins' personal
equipment which has oeen broken or
lost, are gathered up and returned to
one of the bases, where they are repair
ed if possible. It' they cannot be mend
ed such parts as are intact are used
In renewing otlier impltmients or nni
cies of the same kino, and in event thill
they are hopelessly broken or torn they
are sold as junk.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press was permitted to visit one of these
big repair depots. Departments of every
description were busily engaged in the
work of restoration. In one building
was a pile of upwarils of half a million
pairs of worn boots—a veritable moun
tain of muddy footgear. These were be
' disinfected, cleaned, resoled and re
paired in other ways at the rate of
_ seven thousand pairs a week by a large
force of experts. As fast as they were
finished they were placed in slock ready
to go hack i»» the trenches, when there
should he a call for more hoots.
In other shops parts of broken har
ness from the equipment of the army
horses were being repaired, saddles were
being made over, rifles were being made
whole, big guns were in the process of
renewal, uniforms and equipments were
being overhauled-in fact, every con
ceivable sort of tiling which finds use
fn tlie army was oeing renovated. All
unserviceable hits of metal wen- being
stored to sell to foundries and even the
tattered pieces of uniforms were being
made ready for the call of dealers who
buy clotn of this description for various
manufacturing purposes.
Much of the work in this repair de
pot was being done by French girls, al
though a large force of men was re
quired for the heavy work and such
duties as called for skilled labor.
An officer explained that "no waste"
was the motto under which the British
forces were working, and declared that
the result was the saving of vast sums
| of money for the government.—Ex.
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