The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23
They Will Give Interesting InfOrma-
ton Regarding Philippines.
PROSPECTS OF PEACE
GLOOMY ACCORDING TO STORIES
OF RETURNED SOLDIERS.
The New Thirty-fourth Regiment Is
Filling Up Slowly-All Recruits
Expected to Be Enlisted By Aug
ust 1O-Utah AS a Producer of
Onyx Marble.
(special correspondencel

/ Washington. July 1S.-The surviving
members of the Utah battery, except the
twenty-four who remained in other regi-
ments or in new duties in the Philippines
viii be home again in few days now.
ihat they will be received with every
klho or enthusiasm for their gallant work
is certain. 1 tab wrote some of the bright
est ana braYest pages in the story Of
American valor in the long contest in the
islands. She also furnished some of the
abiest officers in the American insular
army.
When the boys return however. the
people will learn exactly what their idea
Is as 10 the duration of the war in which
so many brave fellows have fallen They
nave performed their duties as soldiers
well; there is TO be no reason to doubt
taat they Will also perform their duties
IS citizens well. one OF the first of these
duties Will be TO tell the facts as they
are.
If the returned soldiers of Deseret are
IS frank as those who have preceded
them homeward. they viii make no secret
or their conviction that even with an
army of 63OO0 men. the war in the Islands
VIII! last yet many years. Many reports
have reached here Of expressions on the
part of the First Oregon. troops. which
are probably fairly Indicative of what
One Of the best known of the Oregon Of
hcers is quoted DIS saying:
Peace Long Way OF.
1T viii be many years before real
peace IS established in the Philippines.
BriSandage warfare will continue re-
eardless of the size of our army in the
islands. At least 10000 men are needed
to conquer and hold the island of Luzou
alone Every town must be garrisoned.
In my opinion II will be years before the
country will be sufficiently pacified for
Americans to travel in safety for fifty
miles from garrisoned city.
II is altogether probable that the new
volunteer regiments in which the Utah
boys who remain in Manila viii see serv-
ice. will have plenty OF hard work before
they again see the states. The ten regi-
be in the same q IS. In fact they are al
ready called. jocularly speaking. the
regular volunteers term that Implies
hard work and a great deal of IL. 1t is
believed by the war department that
these new regiments will continue as
organizations in the permanent establish
ment. after the expiration of their pres
cnt two year period of enlistment.
Utahns Who Remained.
Until the Hancock lands at Frisco it
Will not be possible to give the names of
the twenty-four Titan soldiers who have
remained in the islands as no lists of the
batteries containing this information
have been forwarded TO the department.
The reports thus far received from the
recruiting officers of the new Thirty
men as rapidly as the regiments whose
territory is further to the east. Thus far
the new Thirty-first. Twenty-seventh and
TWenty-Sixth regiments lead. in the
order named. in the number of recruits
obtained. The adjutant general. how
ever. tells The Herald that in his opinion
the enlistment of the last man in the