Show IN HIS WAR BOOK BOOKIS IS SEVERE ON GEN MILES Accuses of Unmilitary and andr r Questionable Methods in Embalmed Beef Affair I Declares Round Robin a Regrettable Incident and Scores Sampson For His Conduct New Nev York Oct 5 General Algers Algeria book on the war which his publishers stated has been delayed and changed because of 0 the I of ot President McKinley will be I Issued General Alger open opeo 3 his book with a I survey su vey of ot the Cuban situation in tn 1868 1808 VII yc comments commont upon our unprepared f cess eis for lir r at that lime and the he F splendid 2 spectacle of at the re tOl to the governments ultimatum upon Spain He then leads the reader i 1 through the hurried preparations for forwar forwar war th cution of 0 the office o seek seeker seeker er Cr the d of hundreds of ot o volunteer rB the demands of ot seacoast cities Ues and towns for immediate ton tion and the savage criticism of ot the military administrations plan of cam campaign and th U battle with apparently I rn s ln and a grievances Then follows I the embarkation at t I Tampa which watt was Be criticised at the time but which General Alger er is isnow isnow Isnow now convinced d that all things consid considered considered considered I ered was wag not a mistake The account of or the march on Santiago is 18 graphically a pictured The book takes up the he round robin signed bythe u general officers of ot She Shaf j army while the negotiations n for surrender were pending In which It it vaE as stated that This army must move o op once or It will perish parish from Cram rem the th threatening the camp General Alget Alger has no criticism to offer of at the round robin itself but says that Its publication was one of the most roost un fortunate incidents of ot the war var Scores Admiral Sampson General Alger reviews at the between General Shafter and Admiral Sampson on and concludes s this in these words 4 j It j Is 8 difficult to account for Cor Admiral I A Sampsons seeming ude towards the arDY during the tile operations opt l I t Santiago Santago as it w v as to excuse e him for tor fori I i his contradictory statements nt made in his official report After the 3rd of July the admirals con dut duct may be due to the keen t resulting l from his nonpar tu tit ti ration in the engagement with er x Veras t ras squadron Possibly he h felt that request for a conference on t tile te ie of or July 3 innocent though jt it was wa wit responsible for tor bio hh being deprived of cf t tle te ie honor of oC actively par ti i pa ting In an ani one i lr f the t h tP m kabIe victories In the tho theof of ot naval l warfare We lews wl the t over ver th alleged mc of embalmed b beef f to the army anny end anti true t lIs of or the appointment by b the president at his request t of oC the thc th tun t icon to investigate the conduct of or the H department de in the war with Spain The commission me mi Sept 24 21 1898 he be sax and up to Dee Pec 21 n of oC that year had taken testimony In seventeen towns and cities and In many different I camps granting to citizens soldiers and an opportunity to ap at pear for complaint or testimony of ot any kind regarding the conduct of 0 the war warEm Em Embalmed Beef Affairs Many thousands of soldiers were in Invited invited to give their evidence without rank ronk or service v It I Qa n the of oC December continues General Alger the major m general com corn II I manding the army arm of ot the United States appeared before the commission then sitting Bitting In Washington and made his statements with reference to the canned fresh sh and refrigerated beef furnished to the army during the war ivar val Although the tho th commission had been sitting neatly three months the charges with respect to canned and aud beef were now flOw made mado for Cor the first time and stranger and more inexcusable and an more still during all those tholie months with this pre tend ten tenN knowledge of ot facts which hleb if they existed should have been made known to the secretary of war for the protection of or the army General Miles hart haft never mentioned the subject General Gener l Miles lIlles seemed to be pleased with the notoriety which his hl startling statement before the commission and his subsequent newspaper Interviews gave him for again on the of ot March larch 1899 1689 In w York City lie he pub through representatives of 0 the Associated Press Preas and of a tan paper additional charges This un Unmilitary military and questionable method of ot making in public grave Ye and scan dalous charges regarding a brother of oC fleer and the work of or his department charges which subsequent and careful investigation proved both unwarranted and untrue seemed med to appeal to certain certain tain tam characteristics of or the major gen genera genera era commanding to which reference re he be out of ot place ulace Miles Was Not Honest If we are to believe written evidence ts h t the contrary It does not appear that General Miles was even een honest In mak ing lOg his dilatory charges that the t he tinned beef was Issued as the th pretense of ot an experiment and it was vas now a part of 0 the ration On the lith of June 1898 hi mot moet confidential staff taff officer signed n It letter by direction of ot the major gen general oral eral commanding the army instruct ing Ini in the th depot commissary ary at Tampa to furnish to General u z pounds of canned roast beef b t to be issued ls from the th stores of ot the army arm If we are to the reading of ot this letter lett r as correct it proves that I General Miles knew that canned fresh beet Jef was a part of the ration that he I knew there 11 was as a large qi q nUt of ot it at Tampa for issue to the troops and that he so far ar approved of Its use as asto asto asto to direct that the ration be furnished in 10 large quantities to our allied allieS |