The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-04
TIE PHILIPPINE ARMY.
0.33s Recruits Needed to Fill Out the ReEi.
menta of Regular.

WASHINGTON. July 3.-The Adjutant- General
has received from Cen Otis the following re-
ply to an inquiry as to the number OF recruits
needed to bring the regiments in the Philip
pines up to the maximum strength:
Number recruits required to fill companies
to 1913 each regular regiment: Infantry-Third.
1896: Fourth. 304; Sixth. IFS; Ninth. 3O5:
Twelfth 800; Thirteenth. 1853: Fourteenth.
$780, Sixteenth. 270; Seventeenth. 2D4; Eight
zenith. 1913: Twentieth. 1898: Twenty-flrst 1876 {:
Twenty -scond. 480: Twenty-third. $50. First
Artillery. &: Third. 258: Fourth. 2; Fifth. q;
Sixth. 93. Fourth Cavalry. 493; Engineers. T."
The number OF recruits required for the reg
ular regiments in the Philippines is therefore
6.33S Toward supplying these there are now
on the way to Manila LOOT recruits. and at San
Francisco 3.2si. making total Of 4.701 and
leaving deficiency of :547 recruits.
The large number Of vacancies existing In
the Fourteenth. Eighteenth and Twenty third
Infantry is due to the fact that these regiments
the Philippines and we're not filled to the maxi
mum. and also to the fact that the men in these
now being discharged The men enlisting for
the war in the other regiments were discharged
before the regments lsit this county; and the
panies from 1OB to 12S men.
At the rate OF enlistmcnts for the last few
weeks the entire number will be enlisted by
has retained thirty-two regular oficers OF reei-
now Ill W RlNt udlly
to recruits at the Preside In San Francisco. in
order that they may be made as efflc lent as
possible in target, practice. to which he has
subordinated all other drill
In the same cable despatch Gen Otis gave list
yet TO be returned to the United States. These
regiments. with the number OF men In each or
1I4I: Idaho, sos; North Dakota. 623: Wy
oming. 900; Minnesota. 1.1B5; South Dakota.
OF: Montana. 900: California artillery. 800;
Washington 1.OiS: Tennessee, o4U: Kansas.
] .OJ2; Nevada cavalry. SS: Wyoming artil-
lrry. IS: Iowa, 800: Signal Corps. 1Wb. The
California and Colorado regiments. Gen. Otis
added, were preparing to take the transports
sherman and Warren and would leave shortly.
To meet the requirements OF the returning
volunteers the Quartermaster's Department
REPORTS that there are now at Manila the trans
ports Sherman Warren and Grant, wi h ca
pacity of 1919 officers and 1924 enlisted men !:
there are now on the sea going to Manila the
Iealandia. due July 20: Sheridan. due July
81; Valencia. due July 90. and PENNSYLVANIA.
due July ~. W tn capacity for l81 officers and
400 enlisted men. and there are now
in San Francisco the transports City OF Para.
which will sail July II. and Tartar. to
sail July 20. with capacity for 55 officers
and 300 enlisted men. There are now bound
for San Francisco the following transports.
with capacity for 2O1 officers and 1854 en-
listed men: the Ohio. Newport, Indiana. Han
cock. Senator, Morgan City and Relief (hospital).
The department confidently believes that the
transportation has been so well arranged that
the last OF the volunteers will leave Manila not
later than Sept. 10.