War Lessons For Americans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 20, 1912:
Our Officers May Visit Battlefields in European Turkey.
    WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— The United States has asked the Balkan allies and Turkey to permit a party of American army officers to join their forces and go over the fields on which some of the greatest battles of modern times have been fought within the last few weeks. If the permission is given, the members of the special cavalry board now touring Europe and the available Military Attachés at London and Paris will be ordered to the scene at once. None of the military attendants assigned by foreign nations to accompany the belligerent troops in the Balkan war has been allowed to get to the front so far, but the War Department desires to take advantage of the probable immediate conclusions of hostilities to send experts over the fields before details are forgotten. Even after the forces have been withdrawn, it is said observers may study the ground with profit.