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Page 29 - Ballarmino, who surrendered to Colonel Wint at Legaspi, and the Third Separate Brigade agafnst General Malvar, who surrendered to General Bell at Lipa. In the latter campaign a second wire was strung from Batangas to Manila and 70 miles of field lines were built, connecting nearly every post in the provinces of Batangas, Laguna, and Tayabas. The Signal Officer is in receipt of a telegram from the commanding general, Third Separate Brigade, thanking officers and men. for their work. For gallantry...
Page 56 - ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION. The administrative division has charge of the routine work of the Signal Office: the receipt and distribution of the mail; general office correspondence; the care and preservation of the office files, and all matters affecting the commissioned, .enlisted, and civilian force of the Signal Corps. To this division is assigned the principal assistant of the Chief Signal Officer. This position was tilled by Maj.
Page 50 - ... INTERNATIONAL CABLE REGULATIONS. In connection with the proposed American-Pacific cable, it is desirable to call attention to the fact that the whole subject of the rights, privileges, and immunities of submarine cable property in time of war has been brought to notice during the Spanish-American war, and should properly be a matter of consideration for an international cable conference. Such a conference for the protection of submarine cables was held at Paris in 1884, and its proceedings transmitted...
Page 51 - ... military- signal duties, and of books, papers, and devices connected therewith, including telegraph and telephone apparatus and the necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges and other military uses; the construction, repair, and operation of military telegraph lines, and the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, and all other duties usually pertaining to military signaling.
Page 14 - I know yo« will join in congratulations to the officers who have superintended construction and to General Wood, who has nearer communication with the outside world than ever before." The Chief Signal Officer of the Army, who was making an inspection of the telegraph lines in Cuba, was...
Page 42 - As stated in my last annual report, the reorganization of the Artillery Corps, and the designation of Col. Wallace S. Randolph as Chief of Artillery, have produced important results in fire-control operations. The utmost harmony and thorough cooperation has obtained throughout the year between this office, the Chief of Artillery, the Chief of Engineers, and the Chief of Ordnance. From the beginning it has been recognized that the Corps of Artillery is a dominant factor in the operation of our seacoast...
Page 8 - Corps and civilian employees—can not bo fairly appreciated by anyone unfamiliar with Alaskan trails. Suffice it to say that every pound of food, forage, tentage, etc., wire, insulators, or line material has to be moved by pack animals over a trail so rough that an animal can hardly travel 15 miles a day. Cold and rapid glacial streams, swampy morasses, tangled underbrush, steep declivities, narrow canyons, thick timber, and sharp ridges alternate to tax the strength of man and animal to the utmost....
Page 16 - ... advance, maintain, and operate the system as to not only produce revenue for the government, but to also bring about the best results for the commercial and business interests of the island and its people. It is unquestioned that on occupying Cuba the American Army found a few dilapidated telegraph lines operated by antiquated methods, with tariff rates increasing in proportion to the length of the message, without free delivery, and with grave uncertainties as to espionage, secrecy, and delivery....
Page 62 - The lines form parts of one connected system of telegraphy extending throughout the United States. They serve military, commercial, naval, and other distant interests. The disabling of or interference with any part may cause complications not possible to be contemplated in the immediate vicinity. Official and military Diessages have precedence on all Government lines.
Page 15 - The good work of the Signal Corps in the two Islands was everywhere in evidence, and the completion of the overland telegraph line from Pinar del Rio to Santiago de Cuba and on to Baracoa will materially expedite Government business.