From our ministers, and consuls, in Japan, China, India, Italy, Russia, Austria, France, and England, we received great kindness and every assistance necessary to complete our mis sion. I have already reported that through the action of our lega tion at Berlin my comrades and myself were excluded from the German manoeuvres, and that, as a consequence, we were pre vented from witnessing the practical application of modern tactics in the army in which they have found their widest development.