The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-21
THE THIRD EXPEDITION
II Will Sail for Manila Thursday
or Friday.
THE TROOPS ARE READY
Anxiously Awaiting the Order to Em-
bark-0ensrsl Merritt VIII Touch
ss Hong Kong Before Going
70 Manila.

San Francisco. June :o.-The third
expedition to Manila will sail next
Thursday or Friday at the latest. This
announcement was made at General
Merritt's headquarters his morning.
notwithstanding q report from other
sources that the transports cannot be
gotten In complete readiness by that
time. The officers who are supervising
the preparations on board the vessels
appear to differ with the steamship
company concerning the time needed to
complete the alterations. and have re-
ported to General Merritt that the
transports ought to be ready to re-
ceive the soldiers by Thursday.
The troops that are to form the third
expedition under command Of Brigadier
General Macarthur are nov anxiously
awaiting 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 organi-
sations to the transports as made by
Major General tots to-day is as fol-
lows:
Steamer valencia-North Dakota
battalion.
Ohio-lst wyoming battalion. head
quarters band. Companies ID and II of
the 18th and Batteries q and l. of the
Sd artillery.
Acknowledgement band. Com
panies B. c, q and l. of the 23d in
fantry. recruits for the First battalion
Of the z2d. the signal corps and the re-
mainder of Company "A Of the engineer
corps.
City Of Para-1sth Minnesota volun-
teers. with exception OF recruits to ar
rive.
Morgan City-Idaho ~battalions and
recruits to arrive for Nebraska and Or
egon regiments.
The report has been frequently cir
culatsd around army headquarters that
OF the vessel In which he will journey
TO the Philippines 20 as TO touch at
Hong Kong before landing at Manila.
General Merritt will make this nov
In order to place himself In communi-
cation with the authorities at Washing
ton before he commences operations 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 vessels of
the third fleet supplies and coal are o
being placed on board, and II the car
penters can finish h fitting up OF the
hunks by Thursday the Ave vessels
may depart on schedule time. but 1t ia
exceedingly doubtful IL this a be
done, especially as the working force
employed on the vessels IL by no means
large.
Just what ships will be used for the
fourth feet can not be learned. blu the
fleet will probably consist OF the New
port. 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 IL sched-
uled to arrive from Australia OF June
%, and the Acapulco. which will
doubtless arrive from Panam on the
same date. Japan may indirectly aid
Uncle sam. There Is a report curren,
at the Pacific Mail dock that the steam
ers of the Japanese line. the Togo com
pany. MA be used as substitutes for
the ships chartered by the United
States government from President G
agreement between the Togo company
and the Pacific Mail for the operation
OF the new steamers now being built
for the former company. As the mail
company has given up the Picking and
China and will give up the Peru. the
Togo line. which operates a number
of large steamers in the Orient. will
probably furnish ships for the trade
until Its new steamers shall be com
pleted.