The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-01
TROOPS MOVING
TOWARD CUBA
One Expedition Probably All
That Will Be Necessary to
Maintain Order.
MARINES ALREADY THERE
GREAT ACTIVITY I'M THE WAR
DEPARTMENT.
MARINES ALREADY THERE


ton of the forces will be at Newport
News. Va. for the most part, although
part OF the expeditionary force to Cuba
will be sent from New York and Tampa,
Fla. Advices received at the departments
OF the military today indicate that all is
quiet in Cuba and that the insurgents in
tend to lay down their arms. The proba-
b'lity is the United States forces in the
island will be landed only a precau-
tienary measure. So far as officials are
advised no trouble OF a serious kind is
anticipated, but in accordance with in
structions from President Roosevelt hur-
ried preparations are being made for the
sending of an expeditionary force of the
army to Cuba.
The first American troops will be landed
at Havana next Saturday. Meantime, the
marines and blue Jackets from the Ameri-
can fleet in Cuban waters will protect
American interests and support Secretary
Taft, the provisional governor of Cuba,
I'm the preservation of order and the pro-
lection of life and property.
Annexation?
In official circles here American inter-
vention was regarded as inevitable. How
long 1t may continue, it is impossible for
To fortell. The nature of the intervention
and the propositions for IL Indicate a
supervision of Cuban affairs on the part
of the American government for an in
definite period. Arrangements have been
concluded not only for the eXpeditiOnary
force to Cuba of about $500 men, but for
a second force of equal numbers. No or
dcrs for the mobilization of the second
force, of course, have been issued, but
ST the men are needed all arrangements
have been completed for hurrying them
10 Cuba at the earliest possible moment
Whether more troops than are included
in the first expedition Will be sent TO
Cuba will depend upon the developments
in the island during the next ten days,
1t is certain, however, that a sufficient
force of American troops will be main
tanned in Cuba to support the provisional
government and to insure security to life
and property pending the establishment
OF a stable government by the Cubans.
On a War Basis.
Operations in all departments of the
military establishment of the government
fCdav were OF a war basis. The acting
secretaries and chiefs of bureaus were
at their desks and every office was hum
ming with activity Scores of clerks who
have not worked on Sundays since the
Spanish-American war were on duty at
fine war and navy departments end at the
HEADQUARTERS of the marine corps.
General Ainsworth. military secretary,
and General Bell. chief of staff OF the
army, worked throU- Tout the day. con-
GLIDING arrangements for the departure
of the first expeditionary force TO CUBA.
Orders for the movement or the troops
were sent out last night but today scores
of orders were sent to officers who are
on leave to join their regiments.
Transports Are Ready.
General Humphrey quartermaster gen.
oral practically closed arrangements to-
dav for transports which are to convey
the expedition to Cuba Inc Shlps VIII
he ready for departure before the troops
have been modified at Newport News.
If il should be necessary to send sec
ond expeditionary force TO Cuba lmme-
diateiv following the first the war de-
nartment apprehends some difficulty on
account OF the quarantine laws of the
various southern states. A transport re-
turning to any southern state from Cuba
20 quarantine
davs before il can take on cargo or
troops for Cuba. The war department
has taken UP this matter with the author
tiles of the southern states IN the nope OF
arranging for waiver OF the flVe-day
quarantine regulation
Secretary Taft as the head of the pres
idents special mission to Cuba has
available nearly 5000 marines and blue
Jackets who could be landed on Cuban
soil in a few hours in case OF emergency.
Other marines are en- route to Cuba, and
will be available for emergency service In
two or three days.
VIII Arrive Saturday.
It will be a full week before the forces
= of the army can be landed in Cuba. Inc
first detail of troops will leave New York
on Wednesday on board the army trans
port Sumner. They will arrive at Hava-
ma on Saturday afternoon next It prob
ably will be several days later before
other troops of the first eXpeditionary
force of the army will be able to reach
Cuba. Where they will be landed is yet
undetermined. II is likely they will go to
Havana. but their precise destination will
not be determined until practically the
hour of the sailing of the transport.
No time is being lost in hurrying troops
10 the point of iliZation-Newport
News Va The order of President Roose-
welt. received at 1875 o'clock last night al
the war department, was imperative. Its
text was as follows:
Arrange for 5000 troops to start fol
Cuba as soon as possible
Orders Quickly Sent.
This telegram was received in answer
10 one sent TO the president yesterday
morning by the war department officials
following the message from Secretary
Taft. Immediately upon the receipt OF
the presidents orders, kilograms were
sent TO the troops selected for Cuban ser
vice TO move at once. BY midnight las
night all orders to troops had been dis
patched, ana advices received today by
the military secretary. General Ainsworth
indicate that the orders are being car
ried into effect.
Nine hundred men will sail from New
York next Wednesday on the army trans
port Summer. One light battery from
Fort Sheridan. st Chicago. will embark
from Port Tampa for Havana as soon a:
arrangements can be completed for tn,
} movement. The remainder of the frs
evolutionary force. which will number
about 500 men. will sail for Cuba from
Newport News. Va.
The troops TO GO to Cuba are -baff4siion,
of infantry from Plattsburg IN w bar.
racks, and the battalion of engineers from
Washington barracks. Accompanying
them will be some officers and men %
the medical corps and hospital corps anC
signal corps
Supplies Being Loaded.
The Sumner is loading at New York
She will carry commissary supplies f.,
the first expedition for thirty DAYS. ~
addition to the necessary supplies TO,
49, crau and the men she will a,