Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1910 — Secretary of War Dickinson Completes Tour of the World. [ARTICLE]

Secretary of War Dickinson Completes Tour of the World.

Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary of was, arrived in New York City Monday, completing a tour around the world. In company with Clarence R. Edwards, chief of the bureau of insular affairs, and others, and being accompanied by his wife, he left the United States on July 28th, and went to the Philippine Islands, where five weeks were spent in examining the army in the islands. After leaving there they went to China and at Pekin presented a letter from President Taft to the prince regent. Thence they went by the way of Siberia to St. Petersburg and Berlin. The object of the trip was to inspect and consider army affairs in the Philippines. In France Secretary Dickinson visited the military aviation camp and made three trips in aeroplanes, pronouncing the sensation superb. He says he is greatly impressed by the military value of aeroplanes and shall urge that the United States adopt them.