Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-07-06
STATEMENT BY THE
war DEPARTMENT
Estimate Of the Number Of Troops
Required to Fill Vacancies
in Otis Army.
RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEERS
BY September the Last of Th.u
Will Have Left the Island..
The Number of Regu-
lOrs Needed.

Washington, July 5.-The adjutant-ge1S.
erals office has given out statement,
based on cable advices from General Otis
regarding the number of recruits required
TO I'LL the vacancies in the regular regi-
ments now in the Philippines, the trans
ports available for the return of volun-
teers and for the transportation of fresh
troops to the Philippines, and the esti-
mated time it will take to complete the
work of enlistment. General Otis reply
is as follows:
Manila, July 2.-Number of recruits re-
quired to fill companies to lbs in each reg
ular regiment:
17S; Ninth, 3o5; Twelfth, 300; Thirteenth,
1853: Fourteenth. 7S9: sixteenth, go; Seven
teenth, 294; Eighteenth, SOS; Twentieth,
S3s; Twenty-first, $50; Twenty-second ago;
.. Artillery-First, s: Third. 2s6; Fourth.
2; Fifth, 2; Sixth, 80.
Cavalry-Fourth, 493.
Engineers-7.
Volunteers vet to be returned:
Observation-Disclosures, 11SS; Colorado,
liza; Idaho, 59S; North Dakota. G23; Wyo-
ming: 800; Minnesota. 1.165; South Dakota.
9l1; Montana, COG; California artillery,
$5s; WASHINGTON. LOGS: Tennessee. 946;
Il ansas, 1.052; Nevada Cavalry, IS; Wyo-
ming (artillery), So; Iowa, 995; signal corps,
106
The California and Colorado regiments
are preparing to take the transports Sher-
man and Warren, which will leave shortly.
Otis.
The department sums up the situation
as outlined by General Otis in the follow
ing statement:
ITO meet the requirements of the re-
turning volunteers, the transportation de-
partment reports that there are now in
Manila the transports Sherman. Warren
and Grant, with a capacity of 1879 officers
and ASA enlisted men. That there are
now on sea en- route to Manila the Zeal
andia @due. July 2ol, Sheridan (due July
2D. Valencia (due July 2e). and Pennsyl-
of1cers and 4.2oo enlisted men. There are
now in San Francisco the transports City
Of Para, which will sail July 81 and the
55 officers and $500 enlisted men. >
There are now en- route to San Fran
cisco the following transports, with ca
pacity for 29 officers and 4654 enlisted
Senator, Morgan City and Relief (hos-
pitaD.
1.-THE department confidently believes
that the transportation has been so we'll
ment that the last of the volunteers will
leave Manila not later than the 10th of
September. and it is expected that they
will III; all be away by the 1st:
regiments in the Philippines is estimated
at s;sss :: ~ i
1.-THE number of recruits nowsA TIA iy
,bo7; number Of recruits now at San Fran
cisco, 1884, total of 4,791, leaving 1,547
yet to be provided for.
"The large number of vacancies exist
Ing in the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and
Iwenty-third infantry, is due to the fact
Merritt's original expedition to the Phil
:ppines and were not filled to the maxi
mum; also that the men in these regi-
now being discharged; the men enlisting
for the war in the other regiments were
discharged before the regiment left the
country, and the vacancies from 106 to 1928
men.
''At the rate of enlistments for the las.
few weeks. the entire number will be en-
listed by the close of the present week"