The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-07
OUR FORCES IN MANILA
Forty One Thousand Soldiers De-
Tending the Flag.
TO RELIEVE VOLUNTEERS
State Troops Will Be Sent Home as
Soon as Circumstances Will Permit.
Otis Is Planning an Attack on
the Insurgent Lines.

thousand officers and men OF the COM
bined army and navy forces comprise
the approximate total American
strength now at and en- route under or
ders for service for the Philippines. No
further reinforcements are now in con-
temptation. The forces of the two serv-
ices already stationed in and about the
| archipelago consists of 20 regiments of
infantry, one engineer battalion, seven
| troops of cavalry and II batteries of ar
tillery, an aggregate of about 2450O
| men. Nineteen vessels with an aggre-
gate of 297 officers, 1880 men and 25S
marines make up the naval contingent
This is exclusive of the transport So
, lace, with 162 officers and men all told,
which is constantly passing back and
forth from Manila. There are about A.
800 army reinforcements on the way to
Manila, making as rapid progress as
possible, and there are roughly esti-
mated $500 men in the force under or
ders to proceed to the Philippines.
The force now at Manila or Hong
Kong under the command of Admiral
Dewey: Baltimore, Bennington, Bos-
ton, Buffalo, Calloa, Charleston, Con-
cord, Culgoa, Don Juan de Austria,
Helena, Isla de Luzon, Isla de Cuba,
Manila, Monadnock, Monocacy. Mont
| Grey, Olympia, Petrol and Yorktown.
These vessels carry 297 officers. 1880
! sailors and 253 marines. The transport
Solace does not remain at Manila. The
captured ships Don Juan de Austria,
| Isla de Luzon and Isla de Cuba are not
availa BILE for immediate service, as they
are in need of repairs. The Solace has
| taken out a number Of recruits and with
these the Isla de Luzon will be manned.
The Wheeling will join the Manila fleet,
but is not to be counted as being avail
able in the immediate future.
| The regular troops now in the Philip
| pine islands under command of Major
General Otis consist of the following:
The 18th U. s. infantry, 18th infantry,
Goth Y. S. infantry, which has but re
Gently arrived there, consisting of Al
officers and 1,21S men; 22d u. S. infan
try and 23d L. S. infantry, battalion of
u S. engineers. companies c, E, G, l.
X, L, of the 4th U. s. cavalry; batteries
| G, H, X and l. of the Bird u. S. artillery,
|
| lery.
Most of the volunteer forces already
in the field and most of whom have
borne the brunt of the engagements
with both the Spanish army on the ISL
ands and more recently the Filipinos,
have been there since the beginning
of the American occupancy of the ISL
ands. They comprise Is regiments of
| infantry, one troop of cavalry and five
batteries of artillery, as follows: The
| 1st California, 1st Colorado, 1st Idaho,
51st Iowa, Goth Kansas, 18th Minnesota,
1st Montana, 1st Dakota, 1st Nebraska,
I'd Oregon, 10th Pennsylvania, 1st South
Dakota, 1st Tennessee, LIST Washington,
1st Wyoming, 1st troop of the Nevada
cavalry; battery A and battery B, Utah
light artillery; battery A and battery
B. California artillery; the 1st Wyoming
light battery. 10th and 18th companies
| of the United States signal corps.
| In addition to these, another compa-
ny of the signal corps has been formed
at Manila. being recruited by the trans
| fer from the regular branch of the ar
my. This means of making up the
new company was made necessary by
the lack of time for dispatch of men
from the United States. Reinforcements
| for the Philippines now on the way ag-
| gregate in the neighborhood of 4,300
men all told. These are made up of
three general expeditions as follows:
| The transport Grant, with General
Lawton and staff with a total of 64
| officers and 716 men, including one bat
talon of the 18th infantry and four
companies Of the 4th infantry. This eX
| pedition sailed from New York January
10, was reported at Singapore on Sat
urday and General Lawton cabled Cen
eral Otis that his expedition will reach
Manila in the early morning of the 10th
| inst.
The transport Sherman, Colonel j. H.
Page commanding. carrying total of
| "a officers and 1,702 men, including the
| entire 3rd infantry regiment and a bat
| talon of the 18th infantry. The Sher-
| man sailed from New York February
g. The transport Sheridan. under com
mand of Lieutenant Colonel J. II.
| Smith of the 18th infantry, carries all
of the 18th and a battalion of the 18th
| infantry, making total of 81 officers
and 1876 men.
| Besides the Roanoke with a fair
sized detachment of recruits for the
various regiments already in the archi-
! pelaso. has gotten good start on the
way to Manila and the transport Va
lencia sailed from San Francisco for
Manila, via Honolulu, with $50 re-
cruts for the infantry. artillery and
Scorpion and a number of West Point
| graduates assigned to duty with various
companies in the Philippines. To swell
| this formidabl list of men already in
the field and en- route, five regiments
of infantry and the crack 9Th artillery
with an approximate strength. addi-
| tional, of $500 men in all are under or
ders to proceed to Manila at the earliest
| opportunity. These reinforcements,
which go to Manila under an order is
| sued by the war department last week,
| complete the roll of troops So far as
contemplated, for service in the ISL
! ands, and are as follows: The 9Th L. s.
| infantry, now at San Antonio; the 9th
! Z. 5. infantry, at Madison barracks:
! the 18th U. S. infantry, in New York
state; the 10th U. S. infantry at Fort
| Crook ard neighboring points, and the
21st Z, 5. infantry at Plattsburg, N.
/ Y. and the 9th Z. S. artillery, now scat
| tered along the Atlantic coast at num-
| Der of points. The date of departure
| has net yet been fixed, but they are ex-