Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-27

regiments Will De plaCeu at 1tHeldi ShaA
fees command in China. Acting Secretary
Meiklejohn and Adjutant General Corbfn
assert today in the most positive terms
that the 9th Infantry men are the only
American troops ordered to service in
China, and that while the 9Th Cavalry may
go to China in the event that they are
needed, their present orders only carry
them as far as Nagasaki. In the possible
event that peace shall reign in China by the
time of their arrival at Nagasaki the 9Th
Cavalry will proceed to its original destina-
tion in the Philippines.
1t is expected that the transport Grant.
with General Chaffee on board, will arrive
at Nagasaki about the 2Sth of July, which
would insure his arrival at Taku by the 1st
of August.
The Military Force to he Used.
Much stress is laid by the officials on the
fact that the present alarming conditions
in China may change materially before
Gen. Chaffee reaches NagCsaki or Chefoo
and even before he arrives at San Francisco
preparatory to sailing for the orient. For
this reason the administra lion Is not will
ing to discuss the probabilities of an in
crease of the military force of the United
States in that country beyond that already
contemplated by orders heretofore given.
The 9th Infantry and the 9th Cavalry
make a force hardly commensurate with
the rank of a brigadier general of volun-
tcers, which General Chaffee now holds.
The assignment of the general to his new
duty inferentially carries with it, there
fore, the probability that there may be
more troops placed under his command
General Corbin, however, states emphati-
cally that Notwithstanding published re-
ports to the contrary no additional details
of regiments for China had been ordered.
His statement had specific reference to the
4th and the 10Th regiments of infantry,
which it was stated had been ordered to
China, but the general said that neither
these nor any other regiments had been
or6e red there nor he added in response
to further question, was the ordering of
any further regiments now in contemplation
by the War Department.
The situation in China is being watched
very closely by the officials here, and their
future action will depend entirely upon de-
velopments. If further troops are needed
they will be ordered promptly. and a force
sufficient to protect American interests will
be dispatched If occasion demands
Ninth Infantry on for China.
Gen. Macarthur notified the adjutant gen.
eral this morning of the departure of the
9th Infantry for China The regiment was
transported on the Logan, and goes direct
TO Taku. According TO official advices to
the department, 1t is fully organized and
thoroughly equipped. This means that 1t
is provided with a complete field equipment,
including machine guns, tents, wheel trans
portation and subsistence supplies. At the
suggestion of the War Department, the ex-
pedition includes a detachment of ten Sig
nal Corps men under Lieut. Stanford of the
Signal Corps, with apparatus for the con-
struction of at least fifty miles of telegraph
lines; also with detachment OF twenty
men of the engineer department, under
command of Lieut. H. b. Ferguson, Corps
Of Engineers Gen MacArthurs message
to the adjutant general said that these two
detachments accompanied the 9th Infantry
on the Logan. but that 1t had been found
impossible to put Lieut.. Russell OF the ord
The transportation outfit of the regiment
was sent to China on the animal transport
Port Albert
Record of the Regiment.
The 9th Infantry has until last week been
garrisoning the district along the line OF the
Dagupan railway. between Calumpit and
Tarlac. thirty miles north Of Manila The
regiment has a strength of 1.4O0 men. 1t
was first organized in January. 1893, only
to be disbanded without seeing service eigh-
teen months later. The history of the pres
ent organization dates from 1855, when 1t
was organized at Fort Monroe and went
Immediately to the Pacific coast. by way OF
Panama, to take station at Vancouver
During the civil war the 9th guarded Cali
fornia and protected immigrants from the
Indians on the slope. After six years in
Oregon and Washington 1t was stationed in
the department of the Platte for seventeen
years, its companies distributed among In
dian agencies and frontier posts. It was
represented in the Big Horn, Yellowstone
and other expeditions, and one Of its bat
talions spent the year 1877 in Chicago.
guarding the railroads from strikers In
1893, when its colonel. Jacob Kent. took
division to Cuba, the 9th went under Lieu
tenant Colonel E. P. Ewers. 1t lost one
officer and four men and had twenty-seven
wounded at San Juan Hill. Colonel Lis
cum. the present commander Of the 9th.
commanded the oath Infantry. of which he
was lieutenant colonel. at San Juan.
The 9th sailed from San Francisco for
Manila on March "a Of last year. and went
Immediately on General MacArthur's firing
line in the advance to the north along the
railway.
are as follows: Colonel. Emerson H. Lis
cum; lieutenant. colonel. Charles A. Cool
idge; majors. Jesse NJ. Lee, Morris c. Foote
and James Regan: captains. Thomas S.
McCaler, George Palmer, Frank L. Dodds,
Charles r. Noyes, Robert H. Anderson.
George p. Ahern. Frederick L. Palmer.
John P. Finley, Andre w. Brewster, Franz
D. Ramsey. Mark L. Hersey. Peter c. Har-
ris. John NJ. sigworth and Edwin v. Book
miller: first neutenants. Francis H. Schoef
fel. Joseph Frazier. Arthur w. Yates. Louis
b. Lawton, Thomas w. Connell. Hugh D.
Wise. Edgar F. Koehler. Harry F. Rethers.
Benjamin NJ. Hartshorne, jr.. Fred L. Mum
son. Harold Hammond. Ira C. Welborn,
John b. Schoeffel, William K. Naylor. Eas-
ton R. Gibson and Edward A. Bumpus:
second lieutenants Frederick r. Brown.
Reuben Smith, Frank r. Lang William H.
Waldron. George W. Wallace. Allen Smith.
jr Willis p Coleman. Robert 8. Clark and
Abraham U. Loeb.
View in Diplomatic Circles.
In well-informed diplomatic circles the
news that the foreign ministers have left
Pekin for the north under Chinese escort
is regarded with some apprehension. 1t is
presumed. of course. that the escort is COM
posed Of imperial troops, but a feeling OF
unrest is induced by the evident fact that.
in the present circumstances, even the i'm
perial troops are not absolutely to be
trusted. Indications are abundatt that
they, too. are imbued with the anti-foretgn
sentiment which has found its open ex-