The record-union., 1899-05-12
Volunteers to Commence Leaving
Philippines This Month.
Those at Negroes, the First Regiment,
Among the Number.
No More Troops to be Sent to or
Returned From Manila by Way
of the Suez Canal-A1l Future
Movements of Soldiers to be by
the Way of San Francisco.

WASHINGTON, May lin reply
to the cable of Adjutant General Cor
bin last night in regard to the return
of volunteers, General Otis cabled this
morning:
Manila, May 11-Adjutant General
Washington: Volunteers first to re-
turn now at Neg1os, and forty-five miles
from Manila at front. Expected that
transports now arriving will take re-
turning volunteers. Volunteers under
stand they will begin to leave for Unit
ed States the latter quart of the month.
l know the Importance of their pres
ence here at this time, and accept sac
rfiee which United States interests
make imperative. The Hancock is now
entering the harbor. The transports
returning this week carry sick and
wounded men. The Pennsylvania and
st. Paul are not needed longer in
southern waters, where they have been
retained, hence their dispatch. The
transports Nelson and Cleveland
brought freight and return without
cargo. OTIS
The Hancock which General Otis re-
ports entering the harbor, sailed from
San Francisco April 18th, carrying the
Twenty first Infantry and Light Bat
terry E, First Artillery, thirty nine Off
GERS and 1,451 enlisted men, Colonel
Jacob Kline, Twenty first Infantry,
commanding A later dispatch from
General Otis says:
Manila, May 11.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Health conditions of the
troops arrived on Hancock excellent;
two deaths en- route, Private Dio E
Jones and Elmer H. Chevalier, Com
panies L and E, Twenty frst Infantry,
April 18th and 26th. OTIS"
Still another cablegram was received,
as follows:
Manila, May 11.-Adjutant General,
Washington: Situation as follows:
Succeeded in passing army gunboats to
Calumpit for use in Rio GGande. Rail-
way connections with that point secured
this week. The passage Of gunboats
through the Macabebe country hailed
with joyful demonstrations by the sss-
habjtants y In the country
passed over by the troops temporary
civil administration has been inaug-
urated. and protection to inhabitants
against insurgent abuses given as far
as possible. Signs of insurgent disin-
obstacles which natural fears of the
country present can be overcome.
"OTIS."
The cables from General Otis were
gratifying to the officials of the War
Department Portions of the dispatch
regarding the situation were not made
public, relating. it is understood, to
prospective movements The cable re-
tn Of. ba ;rdi
Gates that the troops are making no
clamor to be sent home, but see the
necessity of remaining until they can
be relieved by the regulars now on their
way TO and to be sent to Manila as soon
as they can be shipped. General Otis
says the troops to be sent first are in
the island of Negroes, and at the front.
This no doubt means the California reg
iment, which is said to be in Negros,
and it is known that the regiment is
with General Llawton somewhere in the
vicinity of Maasini.
NO MORE TROOPS TO BE SENT BY
SUEZ CANAL.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE War
Department will not send any more
troops to Manila by way of New York
and the Suez Canal. All troops now
under orders for Manila or to be or
dered there during the next few months
will be sent by the way of San Fran
cisco. 1t is expected that the Grant
and Sherman, now at San Francisco,
and the Sheridan, which will soon ar
rive there, will carry all the troops
that VIII be needed in the Philippines.
Secretary Alger says that no troops
would he either sent or returned to the
United States by the way of the Suez
at the present.
The Health of the troops would be
endangered by going through the n
dian Ocean and along equatorial lati-
tudes during the summer.
GEN. H. c. OTIS PRAISES FIRST
BRIGADE.
WASHINGTON, May 11.-Adjutant
General Corbin to-day made public the
report Of General Harrison Gray Otis,
commanding the First Brigade. Second
Division. Eighth Army Corps. giving
the details of operations in the Philip
pines from the 1st to the 31st Of March.
The brigade participated in the move
ment against Malolos, which occupied
several days of fighting. In concluding
the report, General Otis says:
campaign by the Second Division, sup
ported by other troops, lasting seven
days and involving frequent combats,
numerous casualties among our troops
and heavy losses by the enemy, Malolos,
the recent capital of the so-called
Filipino revolutionary government,
fell before the American army.
1T is my grateful duty to commend
the officers and men on their bearing
throughout the campaign. They have
shown in an eminent degree the quail
ties of good soldiersAobedience disci-
pline, endurance, courage, steadiness,
patriotism and the most magnificent
ardor in battle. The regimental COM
manders. Colonel Harry c. Kessler,
First Montana Infantry; Colonel Fred
erick Funston, Twentieth Kansas In
fantry, and Major w. A Kobbe, COM
manding the two battalions, of the Unit
ed States Artillery Serving as infantry,
have again proved in actual field serv-
ice their capacity and fitness for their
responsible posts, and their skill and
gallantry under fire. l again recon-
mend them and each of them for such
special mark Of distinction as the Com