The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-06-02
THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
Outlined in Recommendations Of
Secretary of War Alger.
LANDING OF TROOPS IN CUBA

VIII BE Hurried Forward, and Our Sol
diers VIII Also BE Sent to Porto Rico
at the Earliest Possible Moment.
Elaborate Preparations For Invasion
Washington June 2.-For the first
time since the beginning Of hostilities
there appears to be something in the
nature of an official statement of the
plan of campaign of the United States
government This is contained in n
letter of Secretary Alger to the speaker
of the house transmitting certain rec
concentrations and statements of Cen
eral Ludlow, which disclosed the pur-
pose of the war department to send
1000 men to Cuba, 10000 to start at
once and the remainder Just as soon
as they can be made ready for depart
ure. Then there was an estimate for
establishing electrical communications
in connection with the army in Cuba,
Porto Rico and the Philippines" show
ing for the first time officially an i'm
piled intention on the part of the gov
ernment to land troops in Porto Rico.
OF course all these movements have
nevertheless a strong element of doubt
existed and therefore the official state
ment of the governments purpose,
made even in this indirect fashion,
created a profound sensation here.
A good deal of interest attached to
an order that was made at the war
department providing for the organi-
zation of the $4,000 additional voun-
teers called for. The order officially es-
tablished the statement heretofore
made in these dispatches that large
proportion of the new men are 20 be
used to fill UP the existing regiments
of volunteers, which are in most cases
deficient in numbers. According to the
plans already formulated $1,000 troops
will be required to recruit the regi-
ments of the existing organizations up
to their maximum strength, leaving
only $4,000 troops to be mustered in
for the organization of entirely new
regiments.
Several of the states and territories
have already furnished troops under
the first call in excess of their quotas
under these calls and Adjutant General
Corbin is authority for the statement
that none of them will at this time be
| called upon to furnish any additional
troops. The District Of Columbia and
| the following named states are included
! in the list: Delaware, Vermont, North
| Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho
and Wyoming.
An additional evidence that the ac-
| tual forward movement of the army
and navy has begun was given in the
| action of the foreign naval and mill
! tary observers. They have been So
! journlng leisurely in Washington for
some time, but within the last week all
of them have started for Florida. The
| British naval and military attache were
| the first to leave, and now they have
| been followed by the German, Austrian,
Russian, Swedish, Norwegian and Jap
| anese observers. The government of
| Norway and Sweden has no less than
six military and naval experts to OBJ
serve various branches of the warfare.
An evidence of the elaborate prepar-
ations that are making for the subsist-
ence of the troops mobilized and to be
sent to Tampa is obtained from the
fact that the commissary's department
| has now on hand at that place 5000 00C
! rations. A ration is one days food sup.
ply for a soldie:. On this basis there
is subsistence at Tampa for an army of
10000 men for hundred days, and for
a smaller army for a greater number OF
days. The supply is being increased
daily in view of the arrival of addi-
tional soldiers to be emptied in the
army of occupation of Cuba and Porte
Rico.
1t Is understood that today the sec.
retary of war will ask congress for ar
additional appropriation of about $5O
600 600 ON account of the second cal
for 5000 volunteers. The amount Sc
far asked for or appropriated by con
gress on account of the war is approx
imately 1915, 000, COO
A statement from Madrid, in wha
seemed to be almost semi-official form
of the acuteness of the financial strin
gency there, and the plain intimatioI
that the Bank of Spain, and conse
quently Spain, were nearing the enc
of their financial resources, is regarded
at the state department as If NOR
real significance than many of tn
stories of battles on land and sea tina
have been coming over the cables 70
the past few weeks. The effect OF thi
notice may be to hasten the operation
p against Porto Rico, lest the prize Sill
from our grasp through a sudden an,
unexpected termination of the war.