The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-03-07
AMERICAN FORCES
IN THE PHILIPPINES
AND ON THE WAY
Soon Uncle Sam Will Have {
Combined Strength There Of
4l,OOO Men.

A and B of the California Artillery. the
First Wyoming Ligh- Battery, Tenth
and Eighteenth companies OF Cue
United States Signal Corps.
In addition to these another company
for the signal corps has just been
formed at Manila, being recruited by
the transfer from the regular branch
of the army. 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 aggregate in the
neighborhood of 1890 men all told These
are made up of three general expedi-
tons as follows: The transport Grant,
with General Lawton and staff, with a
total of ga officers and 716 men, includ-
ing one battalion Of the Seventeenth
Infantry and four companies Of the
Fourth Infantry. This expedition
sailed from New York January 10, was
reported at Singapore on Saturday, and
General Lawton cabIed General 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 Of
ficers and 1902 men, including the en-
tire Third Infantry Regiment and a
battalion of the Seventeenth Infantry.
The Sherman sailed from New York
under command of Lieutenant Colonel
J. II. Smith of the Twelfth Infantry,
carries all of the Twelfth and a bat
TALON of the Seventeenth Infantry
making q total of 81 officers and 1896
men. Besides, the Roanoke, with a
fair sized detachment of recruits for
the various regiments already in the
archipelago, has a good start on
the way to Manila, and the transport
Valencia sailed from San Francisco for
Manila via Honolulu with $50 recruits
for the infantry, artillery and hospital
corps and a number of West Point
graduates assigned to duty with vari-
Gus companies in the Philippines.
To swell this formidable list of men
already in the field and en- route, five
regiments of infantry and the crack
Sixth Artillery, with an approximate
strength additional of 1900 men in all,
are under orders TO proceed to Manila
at the earliest opportunity. These re-
Inducements. which go to the archi-
pelago under an order issued by the
War Department last week, complete
the roll of troops, so far as contemplate
ed for service in the islands, and are
as follows: The Sixth United States
Infantry, now at San Antonio; the
Ninth United States Infantry, at Madi-
son Barracks; the Thirteenth United
States Infantry, in New York State;
the Sixteenth United States Infantry, at
Fort Crook and neighboring points;
the Twenty first United States Infan-
try, at Plattsburg, n. Y, and the Sixth
United States Artillery, now scattered
along the Atlantic coast at a number
of points. The date Of departure has
not yet been fixed, but they are ex-
pected TO be at Manila May 10. If con-
ditions are satisfactory when they
reach Manila. it is likely that a CORE
spending number of volunteers may be
brought home
On account of the calling out Of so
many troops for the Philippines, the
War Department has decided to defer
for two months the sending of a garri-
son to Honolulu. All of the transports
needed to carry reinforcements to Gen