Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-04
FIRST ORDER LOOKING TO OCCUPA-
TION ISSUED YESTERDAY.
TROOPS ARE TO LEAVE SOON
NUEYITAS AND PUERTO PRINCIPE
TO BE OCCUPIED FIRST.
Eighth Regular Cavalry, Fifteenth
Regular Infantry and Third
Georgia Volunteers the First
to Gotten. Carpenter
in Command.

| WASHINGTON, Nov. S.-Secretary Alger
! to-day issued the first order looking to
| the military occupation of Cuba by the
| United States troops. The order was is
| sued only after very careful consideration
| OF the reports of the military officers now
| in Cuba, and of the Hecker board and
other expert commissioners, which have
| been in the field. The order looks to the
occupation of two points to begin with.
namely. Nuevitas and Puerto Principe. but
| the occupation will be extended as rapidly
as the Spanish evacuation proceeds. The
order directs the movement to begin at
| once. but, according to the calculations
of the department, it will scarcely be pos
! sible TO make the first landing before No
vember %. Headquarters of the new corps,
which has been created for the purpose
| of beginning the occupation, will be at
! Nuevitas. under cOmmanu of General l.. II.
| Carpenter. He is now in command of the
cavalry brigade, composed of the Sixth
and Seventh cavalry, at Huntsville. Ala
! The order is as follows
: THE headquarters of six troops of the
| Eighth United States cavalry and the Third
| Georgia volunteers will be at Nuevitas.
Six troops of the Eighth United States
cavalry and the Fifteenth infantry at Pu-
erto Principe.
THE regiment will be prepared TO en-
bark at once and the subsistence depart
| ment will arrange for the necessary ra-
| tions. The command will be equipped and
rationed for sixty days.
! THE quartermaster generals department
will furnish the necessary wagon trans
portation for use at their new stations.
The surgeon general will make provision
for hospital and medical supplies
| Brigadier General l.. H. Carpenter, U. s.
". is assigned to command these troops,
| with HEADQUARTERS ar NueyitaS.
The cavalry brigade. composed of this
Seventh and Eighth United States cavalry
is discontinued. The Seventh is assigned to
, the First army corps and the Eighth to the
Second army corps.
| The Fifteenth United States infantry is
detached from the Fourth army corps. an
| infantry brigade created, composed of the
Third Georgia volunteers and the Fifteenth
United States infantry, and designated as
the Second brigade, Third division, Second
| corps.
The orders sending the Second brigade,
| Third division, Second corps, to Athens
| Ga, have been revoked
J The stan of General Carpenters brigade
will consist of the following officers: Cap
| tain John E. Mcmahon, assistant adjutant
general OF volunteers, adjutant general:
| Captain William K. Alexander assistant
| quartermaster of volunteers, quartermas-
missary of subsistence of volunteers COM
missary; Major W. F. DeNeidman, United
| States volunteers, surgeon.
| Nuevitas is seaport at the eastern end
| on the northern shore of Cuba Puerto
Principe is located in about the central
portion of the province of the same name.
| This general order has nothing to do with
the assumption of control of the island
| by the United States. no change being
made from January i, the date agreed up
on.
Preparations have also been made for the
| embarkation of other troops which may be
| ordered to Cuba. These orders may be di-
| rected to the corps commanders and not
by general orders, such as issued to-day
| 1t was explained at the war department
that this first movement of troops to Cuba
was ordered in advance of the date orig
inally intended for the reason that. the
Spanish evacuation commissioners had un-
| eXpectedly notified the American commits
sioners that they intended to evacuate
Puerto Principe on the END of the present
month. Consequently il became necessary
| to have United States troops on hand in
| Cuba TO replace these Spanish forces to
maintain order and protect life and prop
erty-