Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-09-30
FROM NEWPORT NEWS
ARMY GOES TO CUBA
Supplies Necessary 10 Feed s.
500 Men for Thirty Days Have
Been Ordered Here.
WAREHOUSES; ARE TO Be RENTED
General Whit to be In Charge Of the
Troops While In This clty-cavalry,
Field and Mountain Artillery. as
Field and Mountain Artillery, and
Marching ordcrs-1.o sail soon.
tBy Associated rress>

WAoilNGlON,D IL. ", sept. ~
The war department tonight received
from President Roosevelt. by wireless
telegraph, instructions TO send G,O0O
troops 10 CuDn Immediately.
Preparations for the military occu-
patton of Cuba moved Mt rapid rate
today after the receipt Of dispatch
from Secretary Taft, urging the send
Ing of an army to Cuba.
All the organizations making ND the
first expedition, arranged by the gen.
eral staff, were advised OF tho request
OF the secretary OF war, and Quarter
master.General Humphrey and his MS
sistants Immediately began to hire
transports and to order supplies do
1.yered Immediately ut Newport News,
where the first expedition will be mob.
ilized.
Supplies Ordered Here.
Sufficient supplies to last $500 men
Tor 30 days are being rushed to that
point with full speed. Captain Samuel
10. Smyley, of the Fifteenth infantry,
has been ordered to Newport News,
where he will secure store houses and
look after his supplies,
Brigadier-General Il. ]. Wint, com.
mandlng the department OF Missouri,
was ordered to Newport News today,
where he will assume full charge of
the embarkation of troops.
Funston to Command.
IT is now known that Brigadier-Gen-
eral Frederick Funston, who is already
In Cuba, Is to be in command of all
the troops sent to Cuba.
Full details of the organization of
the first expedition were made public
by the chief of staff tonight. Lieu
tenant-Colonel w. w. Wltherspoon Ia
to be chief of the expedition staff. and
he will have as his assistants the fol-
lowing officers of the general staff
corps:
Major William A. Mann, Major
Francis J. Herman. Major David p.
Gaillard. Captain George w. Read,
Captain Charles Il. Mcncher. Captain
John w. Furlong.
Captain HAN, Military Secretary,
The military secretary of the exDe-
dition, will be Captain William G.
Ham. of the Artillery corps. Major
William G. Langfitt is to he the en-.
gineer officer. The inspector-general
will he Major 70. S. Greble. Major
SAtu'iSSy -. IuhSl VIII UC CulGl
termaster, and has started for Cuba
with five assistants.
Other officers OH the expedition
staff are:
Chief commissary, Major Harry e.
Wilkins; depot commissary, Captain
II. c. Cole: chief surgeon. Colonel
Valley Hazard; medical inspector,
Lieutenant-Colonel Blair d. Taylor;
chief ordnance officer, Captain VIII
liam H. Tschnppat; chief signal off
Ger, Captain William Mitchell; chief
paymaster, Colonel Charles II. Whip.
pie.
Taft Selects Officers.
Secretary Taft telegraphed today
for Major jefferson r. Kean, of the
medical department and Captain
Frank Mcintyre, of the Nineteenth in.
fantry. who will start for Havana at
tho earliest possible moment.
One hundred and twenty-five mem.
bers of the signal corps from Fort
Omaha, Neb., have been ordered to
Join the expedition and will be under
the command of Captain George s.
Gibbs.
Artillery Ordered to Cuba.
In addition TO the troops originally
ordered to Newport News, the Four
teenth battery Of field artillery from
Fort Sheridan, ILL.,, also will join the
expedition.
New guns for all the troops which
may be sent to Cuba are In readiness,
and as each of the organizations ar.
rive at Newport News, 1t will be
equipped with the latest improves
army rifle. This has knife bayonet
instead of the rod bayonet now gener.
ally In use in the army
Troops to Sail In Six Days.
The expedition from Newport News
will probably sail In about six or seven
days. Full plans for the expedition
were made weeks ago by the war de
partment. which will provide for the
sending of only two battalions from
each regiment to be drawn upon, leaS,
ing skeleton battalion of each OF the
regiments In this country
The organizations ordered to partici
pate I'm the expeditions are as follows:
! Infantry--Fifth regiment. Plattsburg
barracks; Eleventh infantry, Fort D