Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-07-08 | Page 4 | Japans's Chief Scout

JAPAN'S CHIZT SCOUT. 1 1 i The -chief scout in the Mikado's army In x. Manchuria is a Canadian .Lieut Thomas Casey Callaghan, who won hla . ' military title in the Boer war. Previous -to that time .he had roughed it on north-, western ranches, becoming an expert! horseman, rlfie shot and hunter of biJ game. On one occasion in 8outh Afrlo hfc waa shot through the body and w:t.-v, ?lve.?,..Vp fv0f ead- At th outbreaVof V hostilities between Japan and Rusala, he N. 1 enlisted as a scout in the intelligence de- ' bartment of th.e Japanese army, where he rose rapidly in his difficult and dan- k serous work,, until be la now a cor- J . mander-in-chlcf ' of a regiment' of & ' scouts, the flower of the Japanese intei-lgence intei-lgence department. Lieut. OallaKha'n has ( with him always maps of the theatef ef war and an' Interpreter to convey his orders or-ders to the reeUnent. 1 :