The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-02
MILITARY PLANS
OF THIS COUNTRY
What Part United States
VIII Take in
The War

NEW YORK, July PA special to the
Tribune from Washington says:
The most important official news receiv.
ed by the War Department from the
Orient Tuesday was a dispatch saying
that the transport Grant had been sighted
in the Inland Sea of Japan, and would
reach Nagasaki at an early hour We'd
nesday, twenty-five days out from San
Francisco. Aboard the Grant are Major
General Chaffee (who win learn of his
promotion to that rank as soon as he
steps ashore), two squadrons of the Sixth
Cavalry and battalion of marines. Cen
eral Chaffee Will receive Geographic ad-
vices from the Secretary of War which
will hasten the departure of the Grant
for Taku, where she will probably ar
rive on Saturday. 1t is expected that
General Chaffee, after a conference with
Admiral Remey, will Immediately proceed
to Tien-Tsin, leaving the troops which
accompanied him to follow quickly as
practicable. 1t is expected that the trans
ports with two battaiions of the Four
teenth Infantry and Reilly's battery of
the Fifth Artillery from Manila will
resch Tien-Tsin by the time General Chat
fee arrives there. After his conference
with Admiral Remey and the command
ers of the military forces at Tien-Tsin,
General Chaffee will promptly and fully
advise the War Department in regard to
the details of the situation and the pros
pect of an early advance of the relief force
toward Picking. 1t is understood that his
instructions contemplate that he shall do
all he can, with due regard, of course. to
military considerations, to promote as ear
ly an advance as practicable, and it is
expected that in doing this he will act
with the hearty cooperation of the 9TH
err commanders of the international
forces.
That the military preparations of the
United States for the rescue of Minister
CCnger and other American citizens in
China, If they are still alive, and for the
pre- lection of other American interests
there, will be pressed as vigorously as
ever pending the suppression of the dis
orders which the Imperial Government
has virtually confessed it's inability to
quell, is evident both from the President s
dispatch to the Emperor and from the
vigor and energy with which such prep
arations are being pushed. 1t is now con-
coded that Battery of the Seventh Ar
tIllery, now at Fort Riley, Kas., under
orders for Manila, will probably be d.
verted to North China. This battery is
equipped with Siege guns. Owing to the
great size and weight of these guns and
their carriages, their removal to China is
formidable undertaking and will re-
quire much more time than the movement
OF ordinary battery of artillery. The
military authorities still hope that It will
not be found necessary TO send these
heavy guns to China.
! There have been shipped from the
Quartermaster's depot at Jeffersonvillc
Ird., to Seattle, WASH, for shipment to
Taku, fifteen carloads of army wagons
and parts and field ranges and twenty
five carloads of army clothing and other
Quartermaster's supplies. The War De-
.psrtment has purchased in China vesse
Of light draught and high speed for Gen.
eIal Chaffee to use as dispatch boat
to carry messages between Taku, Tien-
Tsin and places further up the Pei Ho, il
he finds it necessary.