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Show SIGNAL SERVICE PLAYS BIG PART IN WARFARE Gen. Grccij Sajs the. United States Has led Other . Nations In This Branch. , , NEW TORK, Jan. ll In an address before the annual, session of the military mili-tary service Institution- at Governor's Island, Brlg.-Qen. A "W. Greely, chief signal officer of the army,; says that warfare In future fhust covet the 'con-' trol of mall, the telegraph lines, balloons bal-loons and visual signaling.', ' Gen. Greely had some comments to make upon the preparedness of other nations In respect to this branch of the service, declaring that the - United State ha led them. Germany, he said, ha been quick to take advantage of our experience, reorganising her lg-nal lg-nal service after the Civil -war and the Spanish-American war. A to Great IBritaln, Greely - pointed out that her service I sadly defective, although Lord Wolseley has repeatedly urged his country to reorganize It. The Japanese, he said, have conducted conduct-ed their operations with a skill hitherto unsurpassed In telegraphing; and ballooning. bal-looning. Gen. Greely gave the Interesting Interest-ing Information that not once waa Gen. Kurokl under fire in making hi celebrated cele-brated flankjng movements, and that so perfect were his telegraph lines that only once was a station with headquarters headquar-ters lost and then only for a. short time. "The changed conditions of modern warfare," he concluded, "will henceforth hence-forth involve deeper formations, widely extended front and enlarged areas of f eld operations." - |