. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. losercame the strangers, then the first officerclosed the long tube he had been lookingthrough. Its the Indiana, he said. Theother vessel proved to be the Olivette andthe two had been waiting to see that thestragglers did not get lost. The weather throughout the voyage wasperfect and the sea so calm that there washardly a case of seasickness on the day the ships steadily plowedalong, scattered over the bright blue seain loose array, and at night they gatheredtogether, their lights t
. The chicago Record's war stories : by staff correspondents in the field ; copiously illustrated. losercame the strangers, then the first officerclosed the long tube he had been lookingthrough. Its the Indiana, he said. Theother vessel proved to be the Olivette andthe two had been waiting to see that thestragglers did not get lost. The weather throughout the voyage wasperfect and the sea so calm that there washardly a case of seasickness on the day the ships steadily plowedalong, scattered over the bright blue seain loose array, and at night they gatheredtogether, their lights turned low or entirelyextinguished and the indicators on thebridges marked dead slow. Drills in the manual of arms have beenconstant and every evening the officers ofthe rough riders have assembled in the sa-loon for school. Outpost duty, fighting in in-trenchments, scouting, every method of har-assing an enemy, discovering his designs,destroying his magazines, evading, attackingand exhausting him have been discussed atthese nightly meetings. Capt. Allyn K. Ca- THE CHICAGO RECORDS WAR STORIES M. JACKIES OF THE NEWPORT AND THEIR PETS. pron, formerly in command of Indian scoutsat Fort Sill, has been instructor at thesenightly meetings and Roosevelthas been one of his most attentive pupils. Atthe last session Capt. Capron found faultwith the many provisions in ease of retreatfound in the regulation book of is too much of that and I dont be-lieve in it, he said. If you go into actionyou want to go in to win and this eternal incase of retreat has a bad effect on the have heard officers say in the presence oftheir troops that soldiers cannot live in theface of a direct fire from the modern had better impress on your men that theonly way for them is to charge through itand to charge through it quickly. I quite agree with you, said There should be no retreat. Itis possible that the exigencies of the situa-tion may demand th
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