The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-10
WHOLE
ARMY
MOVES
Fifty Thousand Men Are Start
ed to Cuba.
General Miles to Take the Field
at Once.
Thirty Ships With a Capacity
of $4,000 Men
CHARTERED TODAY
To Move the Soldiers From
Tampa to Cuba.
Spanish Generals Construct
FOrtificatiOns for 100 Miles
CHARTERED TO-DAY
To Move the Soldiers From
Tampa to Cuba.
Spanish Generals Construct
FOrtificatiOns for 100 Miles
TOTHE EAST AND WEST
Of Havana to Repel the InVa-
sion of u. S. Army.

New York, May 10-The military
movement to end the war with Spain
by a prompt and decisively aggressive
campaign in Cuba is in full swing
throughout the country, orders having
been issued from the war department
with a rapidity similar to the continu-
Gus rattle of an automatic machine
gun, says the Washington correspond
ent of the Tribune.
THE force of extra military teIe-
graphers have sent hundreds of mes
SageS in cipher and hundreds of others
in ordinary language to commanding
generals, to railway superintendent, to
quartermasters and commissaries, to
state governors and mastering officers,
and to all the units in the vast me-
chan1sm which is relied upon to unite
in a crushing blow to Spanish authority
in Cuba and the Philippines
General Miles having secured the
presidents permission to take the field
IN person and command the invading
army, completed his final ARRANGEMENTS
to start for Tampa, where he will as
sumo active control of the forces con-
centrated there and at Mobile and New,
Orleans, dividing into divisions under
Generals Wade, COppinger and Shafter
The plan to have General Shafter head
an army of 5000 to establish a base of
communication with the insurgents was
completely swept aside. Generals Wade
Copplnger and Shafter respectively in
the order of their rank it is now deter
mined will lead equal divisions of the
army OF occupation under General
Miles. General Brooke, now at Chick
amauga, has been definitely selected 70
COMMAND the entire volunteer force of
5O,00O men Which is designed to support
the regulars in the campaign Most of
the regular forces now in carnp under
MIN Will be sent to Mobile and New
Orleans is quickly as possible 10 danor+
simultaneously wit the
tampa, and their places on the Chick
amauga battlefield will be speedily Or.
cupied by the first volunteer corps con
sisting of 50 regiments of infantry siv
light batteries of artillery and two regin
ments of cavalry"
Washington, Nav 1o.-Assis+an+ Goo
retary Meikeljohn TODAY charterad
about 30 ships with capacity of 25. 600
men They are to be used to convey
troops to Cuba and the Philippines.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Nav 1o-A+
Chlckamauga park today officers and
men of the regular army recalled the
days of the civil war.
The order for the entfra arno., 70
pack up and go to the front at once
was announced at o'clock and since
then the things have been moving at a
tremendous pace The railroad 1oan
have been sending all available cars 70
the park and as rapidly as they arrive
they are loaded with the camp eoufp-
menI, nOrSeS, supplies, etc.
The work of moving the big coro
mand during the next few duvs as
they expect to do, is an immense inb
for the railroads. They had received no
intimatIon of the sudden orders and had
made no adequate preparations The
two lines to Tampa, the Southern and
the Western and Atlantic, are doing
everything possible, but the indications
are now that the first troops will not
get out before tomorrow morning
The first out will probably Ia tho in
fantry division, composed of the Sec
ond, Seventh, Eighth, Sixteenth and
Twelfth regiments. Five hundred pas
senger coaches to carry the men to
Tampa will be available tonight
Col. Sheridan of Gen. Brooks staff.
speaking for the general at noon today,
said:
1.-The order does not say rush to the
front; it simply instructs us to get there
as soon as we conveniently can. Of
course, we will move as rapidly as pos
sible, but it will probably be several
days before we are all out. There are
5000 men with hundreds of horses and
a large amount of equipment in the
park; the whole business cannot be
moved within a few hours"
Col. Sheridan refused to give any
opinion about what the order meant
The majority of the officers, however,
do not hesitate in saying that it means
they will land in Cuba as soon as they
can get there. Besides the infantry di-
vision, the Third and Sixth cavalry go
to Tampa The Second cavalry will go
to Mobile, and the First and Tenth
cavalry go to New Orleans. All the ar
tillery was sent out several days ago.
Chicago. May 10.-Gov Tanner re-
ceived orders from Washington to send
two regiments of infantry and light
battery to New Orleans as quickly as
possible. Both go tonight.
Des Moines, Ia, May 10.-Gov. Shaw
today decided that the Second regiment
will be the first to go in response to
the war department. The decision was