IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8165, 23 June 1906, Page 3

IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

In all the list of United Statos military oliloera since tbe Civil War none baß loomed so large in tbe public eye as General Miles. Ho ia the *'Lord Roberts of ■ America," even as Lord Roberts ia tbe "Miles of Great Britain," and like his great equivalent under the Union Jack has played'a part both comprehensive and dazzling Geueral Miles entered the United States Army when the world was much younger, and his part of the world especially so. Be was all through the Civil War, and won great thereby"; and on his elevation to his supreme command of the United States Army a deeree of adulation was Indulged in whioh was at once a testimony to his services and a recognition of bis pcpolarity. General Miles was Commander-in-Chief when war out with.Spaiu Bnd may bo «r°dited with much of the plan work which was formulated *to secure victorious co-operation with the Navy. When in due conrse he resigned under the rule obtaining in America he revived his active association with the grand army, perhaps the extraordinary military body in the world. The United States Arm 7 and the Grand. Army of the United States are two dietinot things, the one repiesenting the active land defence of the moment and the other the valor of a bygone generation. The grand Army iu faot is the remains of the Federal and Southern Armies who met in oivil strife iu Lincolns day, and though death has thinned them k out considerably in the last ten years they still total an immense number of officers and men. In America anyhow General Miles is as great an "-authority on land warfare as Captain Mahon is in matters relating to warfare on the sea. Thus all through "the struggle between Russia and Japan be published at short intervals a running review of operations and a forecast of probabilities, and while the first was distinguished for its thorough acquaintance with "what was going on the second proved a remarkable (series of "pvopbeoiea" of what was going to happen. The.General has also been'a great Indian fighter and likewise a great hunter, and in both capacities has enriched current literature with many thrilling accounts -of his experiences. It is some little time since he resigned from the Commander in-ohiefahip, and now, -as stated, be has retired finally, due -presumably to his years.