Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-06-21
MERRITT MAY ACCOMPANY NEXT
MANILA EXPEDITION.
1T WILL SAIL THIS WEEK
SCHEDULED TO GET AWAY FROM
FRISCO ON THURSDAY.
Five Steamers VIII Comprise the Ex-
pedition-kansas Troops Must
Wait for Fourth Expedi-
tiOn-Merritt to Touch
at Hong Kong.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 9o.-The third
expedition to Manila will sail next Thurs
day or Friday at the latest. This announce
ment was made at General Merritt's head
quarters this morning, notwithstanding 4
report from other sources that the trans
ports cannot be gotten in complete readi-
ness by that time. The officers who are
supervision the preparations on board the
vessels appear to differ with the steamship
companies concerning the time needed to
complete the alterations and have report
ed to General Merritt that the transports
ought to be ready to receive the soldiers by
Thursday.
As yet, General Merritt has not made
public the time of his own departure, but
it is known among his officers that he is
exceedingly anxious to get away on the
next expedition. and will do so unless the
authorities at Washington interfere with
his present plans.
The troops that are to form the third ex-
petition. under command of Brigadier Gen.
eral Macarthur, are now anxiously await
ing the order to embark on the transports.
They are ready to start on short notice and
hope that they will be aboard by next
Thursday.
The final assignment of the organizations
TO the transports, as made by Major Gen.
Valencia-North Dakota battalions
Ohio-First Wyoming battalion, head
quarters band, Companies d and H of the
Eighteenth infantry, recruits for the First
battalion Of the Tenth and Batteries G.
and L of the Third artillery.
Observation-Disclosures band Companies
L, C. G and L of the Twenty-ihifd infantry,
recruits for the First battalion of the
Twenty-third. the signal corps and the re-
mainder of Company \. OF the engineer
corps.
City of Para-Thirteenth regiment Min
nesota volunteers, with exception of re-
cruits to arrive.
Morgan Clty-Idaho battalion and recruits
to arrive for Nebraska and Oregon resi-
ments.
The report has been frequently cireu-
lated around army headquarters that Gen.
eral Merritt will divert the course Of the
vessel in which he will journey to the
Philippines so as to touch at Hong Kong
before landing at Manila. General Merritt
will make this move in order to place him.
self in communication with the authorities
at Washington before he commences op-
erations In the Philippines.
Further instructions will doubtless await
him at Hong Kong. which Is the only cable
point at which he can touch after leaving
this city. In order not to delay the ves-
sells Of the third fleet, supplies and coal are
now being placed on board. and II the car
penters can finish the fitting up Of the
hunks by Thursday the five vessels may
depart on schedule time, but 1t is exceed
ingly doubtful. IL this can be done, especial
ly as the working force employed on the
vessels Is by no means large.
Just what ships will be used for the
fourth fleet cannot be learned. but the
fleet will probably consist Of the Newport.
now at her dock, the City of Puebla. due
from Puget sound, the steamer Peru, due
from Hong Kong on June "a; the Alameda.
which is scheduled to arrive from Aus
tralia on June Q, and the Acapulco, which
will doubtless arrive from Panama on the
same date.
japan may Indirectly aid Uncle Sam.
There is report current at the Paclnc
Mail dock that the steamers OF the Jap
arese line, the Toyo company, may be
used as substitutes for the ships char
tered by the United States government
from C. p. Huntington. There is a traffic
agreement between the Toyo company and
the Pacific Mail for the operation Of new
steamers now being built for the former
company. AS the mail company has given
I'D the Peking and China and will give up
the Peru, the Togo line, which operates
large number of large steamers in the
orient. VIII prooapiy iurhish snipv LUZ the
trade until It's ne" steamers slai' oe dc
eepted. Every eiiort 10 pe'ns maui "
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"AshlNolON, June zo.-Ah auditiohai
be created. 1t will be composed of the
troops assigned 10 tne fhinppihe lsiahus
and Will be In command OF Major General
Wesley Merritt.
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