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Show BORDER PATROL OF ; VALUE TO ARMY WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. Tbe patrol pa-trol of tbe southern border during th Mexican revolution afforded valuable practical inatruetiona to the American army, according to the annual report of Brigadier General Joseph W- Duncan, commanding tbe department of Texas. Thia duty, he ears, developed many ordinary or-dinary oldir into itreag, self reliant men capable, of caring for themselves snd animsls under extraordinary coa-ditiona coa-ditiona of hardship. General Duncan comments upon the constant changing of com pan v and poet officers ss being detrimental to the content, con-tent, discipline and instruction of the soldiers, "Because of ' the freauent changes," he adds, "the individual soldier sol-dier is not made to feel the person-alityof person-alityof hie company commander, snd unrest, discontent snd the commission of minor oenee and even of desertion deser-tion would be greatly decreased if of fleers fl-eers were left with orgsnisstions sufficiently suf-ficiently long to became identified and interests! in them. This condition el sffairs ean bardlv be remedied, however, how-ever, so long a th best officer of the line are taken for dnty elsewhere and, the fate of companies left to the changing chang-ing personnel of inexperienced subalterns" subal-terns" ..' |