The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-28
CHAFFEE ON HIS WAY.
General Starts From Washington For
China.

Ou4la.
Washington, June 27-GeneraI Chat
fee, who has been ordered to command
the American troops in China, left
Washington at 1910 O'Clock today for
San Francisco, accompanied by Lieu
tenant Harper, his aide. He is due at
San Francisco at 5 o'clock Sunday
morning and sails for Nagasaki on the
transport Grant with the Sixth cav
airy the same day.
The war department officials still in
Slst that no orders have gone forth to
send more troops to China than the
Ninth regiment now on its way from
Manila, and the Sixth cavalry which
will sail from San Francisco next Sun
day for Nagasaki and perhaps Taku
1t is said that with these two organi-
cations and the marines now on
Chinese soil General Chaffee will have
the full brigade to which his rank en-
titles him.
RumOrs of Withdrawals of troops
/ from Cuba are said to be the probable
I basis for the persistent statements
that more soldiers have been ordered
to China.
1t is admitted that two regiments viii
soon be ordered to the United States
from Cuba, the particular organiza-
I
Wood, but they simply will take the
place in home gaTTisOns of regulars
which VIII go out to Manila to relieve
volunteer organizations there.
Telegraph Has Reopened.
Notice has come to the government
that the cable companies have again
reOpened communication telegraph
Cally with Taku and Che Foo This
/ arrangement has been made by means
of the Russian Geographic system con-
Meeting with the Siberian railroad sys-
TEN. European agent has man
! aged to reopen the lines, though the
means of communication between Che
/ Foo and Taku and Tien Tsin are
/ tortuOus and probably precarious.
Major Simpson, chief of the bureau
/ of information of the war department.
! is engaged in the preparation of a
map of China which viii show with as
/ great 9articularity as possible that
/ part of the empire in which the present
/ trouble is being experienced. Immense
/ difficulties are being encountered in
/ getting accurate information with
( respect not only to the topography of
/ the country but also as to the tele-
/ graph and railroad lines. Detailed and
/ uD TO date information is scarcely TO
/ be had but in a short time a reasonably
accurate map of the country will be
ready for the use Of the department
! officials and the troops which may find
I China a field Of operation.
Route of Wu's Dispatch.
! officials in the state and war depart
meats today were interested in the dis
\ patch received by Minister WI from
4 Pekin, not only because of its contents,
] but especially because of the route by
/ which it was transmitted. Mr.. WI said
! it reached him from Pekin by way of
/ Sinan Flu. Sinan is the capital Of the
/ province of Shan Tung, southwest of
/ Pekin and northwest of Shanghai The
word Flu, following the name of a city,
! indicates that it is me capital of a
! province. The city is near the Hoang
] HO. one of the two great rivers of
/ China. Telegraph communication be
tween PelIin and Sinan Cor Tsi-Nan), as
it is shown on the German maps, is al
most direct; but thence to Shanghai,
the nearest cable station. the route is
/ roundabout That Minister Wu's dis
| patch came from Shanghai is almost
certain, as, according to the best maps
| in the possession of the department,
there are no cable stations north of
Shanghai on the Chinese coast.
/ As Minister Wu's dispatch was dated
at Pekin on the 18th inst, the SUPPOSE
| blUu IL that II uou ~ DC ldhEu at iEoSol
part of the distance from Pekin to
Shanghai by courier thus indicating
| that the telegraph lines are not in oper-
alton along the route between those two
/ places.
General Chaffee has been in confer
| ence with Major Simpson as to the
topography of the country in which.
/ according to present expectations, the
! foreign TROOPS viii operate.