Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-07-04
Number of Men Needed For DeCi-
mated Regiments.
AN OUTBREAK IN NEcRos
FiIipinos Attacked Volunteer Regi-
ment Leaving For Home, Kill One
N7an ma wound One-Oiis Gives
tho Number of Mon Required TO
Recruit Regiments Up to Full
Strength-DetniisF For Enlistment
Perfected.
(By Telegraph to virginian-pilot.)

(By Telegraph to VirginianP ilot)
Manila, July 3.-6:50 y. m.-Reports
have been received Of an outbreak on
departure of the California regiment
for home. Some hostile natives, seeing
n company OF soldiers at one of the
small posts preparing to depart,
thought the Americans were evacuatine
the island and party of go rebels,
mostly bolomen, attacked the troops
and killed one man and wounded an
other belonging to Company L. The
Filipnos were easily driven off.
The transport Sherman will bring the
California troops to Manila before
starting for San Francisco.
The transport Grant will soon en-
bark the Colorado regiment.
NUMBER or RECRUITS REQUIRED
Washington, July 3.-The Adjutant
Generals Office to-day gave out n state
ment based on cable adviceS from Gen
eral Otis. regarding the number of re-
cruits required to fill the vacancies in
the regular regiments in the Philip
pines, and the estimated time it will
take to complete the work of enlist
ment. General Otis dispatch TO the
Department Is as follows:
Manila. July 9. 1899.
Adjutant General. Washington:
Number recruits required to fill com
panies to one hundred and twenty eight
each regiment:
Infantry: Third. s3G; Fourth. 3o4;
Sixth, 115: Ninth, 305; Twelfth, 300;
Thirteenth, 253; Fourteen, 739; Six
teenth. 27o; Seventeenth, 29i; 1igh-
teenth. S2S; Twentytieth, 33S; Twenty
first. 1876; Twenty 400; Twenty
third. ESQ.
Artillery: First. S; Third. 256;
Fourth 2; Fifth. 2; Sixth. %.
Fourth Cavalry, 493; Engineers. Z.
VOLUNTEERS TO RETURN.
Volunteers yet to be returned:
Infantry: California, 1,1SS; Colorado
LA: Idaho. sos; North Dakota. 623;
Wyoming. 300; Minnesota. .1G5; South
Dakota, 91I: Montana. 90G; California
Artillery, 35S; Washington. 1,066; Ten
nessee. 94G; Kansas. 1852; Nevada. Cav
airy. IS; Wyoming Artillery, So; Iowa
995; Signal Corps, LOG.
California and Colorado preparing To
take transports Sherman and Warren
leave shortly.
(Signcd) OTIS
a SUMMARY.
The Department sums up the situa-
ton as outlined as follows:
TO meet the requirements OF the re-
turning volunteers, the Quart9rmas-
ter's Department reports that there are
now in Manila transports Sherman.
warren and Grant, with capacity of 159
officers and f.S2i enlisted men, That
there are now at sea en- route to Manila
the Zealandia due July 26th), Sheridan
tduc July 2lsD, Valencia (due July 26th)
and Pennsylvania (due July 29th), with
capacity FOR l6l officers and 1900 en-
listed men, There are now in san Fran
cisco transports City of Para, which
will sail July 18th. and Tartar to sail
July goth. with capacity for 90 Of
ficers and 1900 enlisted men.
Ihere are now en- route to San
francisco the following transports, with
capacity for 200 officers and 1905 en-
listed men, Ohio, Newport, Indiana.
Hancock. Senator Morgan City and Re
lief (hospitaD.
The Department confidently believes
that the transportation has been so
we'll arranged by the Quartermaster' s
Department that the last OF the volun-
teers Will leave Manila not later. than
the 10Th OF September, and it is ex-
pected that they will all be away by
the LIST.
The recruits required for the regu-
iar regiments in the Philippines are
y 1888. The number of recruits now at
sea are 1'5o7. The number of recruits
now ut san francisco are 3,2Sf, Il total
or 4.I9l, leaving 1917 yet to be pro-
vided for.
The large number of vacancies cx-
1sting In the Fourteenth Eighteenth
and Twenty-third Infantry is due to
the fact that these regiments. with
General Merritt's original expedition to
the philippines were not filed to the
maximum; also that tho men in these
regiments who enlisted for the war are
Just now being d!scharged the men
enlisting for the war in the other reri-
ments were discharged before the regi-
ments left this country. and the vacan-
cies are due to the increase of the
companies from 106 10 les men.
"At the rate of enlistment for the In G
Few weeks the entire number Will be-.
enlisted by the close of the present
week"
ENLISTMENT OF VOLUNTEERS
The War Department has nearly per
iected the details of the project for the
enlistment or volunteers under the
Terms or the act of the last Congress.
Inere is 10 be nothing in the nature
OF call, but, as heretofore stated The
soldiers Will be obtained in the reruIo r
method through the efforts of the
United states recruiting officers sta
.,4heo - the various large cities. To
TINS end the War Department hoe OIL