The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-28
AMERICAN ARMY
TO LEAVE CUBA
United States Troops viii
Evacuate Island on New
Years Day.
WITH LITTLE CEREMONY
DEPARTURE OF FORCES TO BE
AS QUIET AS POSSIBLE.

Havana. Dec. 27.-New Years day will
witness the beginning of the evacuation
of Cuba by the army of pacification.
which has been in possession of the ISL
ands since the beginning of the provis-
ional government, October. 1906
The first provisional regiment of ma
rines. numbering about Co., which will
be among the first troops TO leave. are
now concentrating from various posts.
About half this regiment viii sail from
Havana JAN l on the cruiser Prairie,
which arrived here Christmas eve, bound
for Newport News. The Prairie Will re-
turn about the middle of the month and
embark the remainder.
Headquarters companies A, b. g ID.
Twenty eighth infantry, will embark on
the transport Sumner at MatanZas on
Dec. 81. The Eighth will proceed to Ha-
vana and will embark with companies
+, and II, stationed at Guanaja, and
company E, stationed at Guines. The
Sumner also will sail from Havana Jan.
for Newport News, the ultimate station
OF these companies being Fort Smelling,
Mimi.
From that time on the transports Sum
ner and Mcclellan will be employed in
the embarkation at intervals of the re-
mainder of the army. Battery F, Third
field artillery. for the Washington bar
racks, and the Fifteenth cavalry now
stationed at Cienfuegos. Placetas, and
Santa Clara, destined for Forts Meyer
and Sheridan, viii sail on Feb. % the
headquarters army, Eleventh cavalry.
now at Columbia and Pinar del Rio, the
mountain artillery and Fifth infantry,
now at Cardenas, Sagua, and Caibarien,
for Plattsburg; the Eleventh infantry,
now at Santiago and Holguin, for Fort
ID. A. Russell, and the Seventeenth in
fantry, now at Camasuey, for Fort Nc
Pherson, Will leave Havana about Jan. q
for Newport News. This leaves only two
companies of engineers and two bat
tahons of the Seventeenth infantry, I'M
der Colonel Pitcher, which will remain
at Camp Columbia. These troops will not
embark until April l, which will COM
plete the evacuation.
The embarkation will be effected with
as little ceremony as possible and 1t is
probable that their departure will be
attended with as little notice as marked
their landing. The purpose in deferring
the departure of a portion of the Seven
teenth infantry until April has been the
subject of considerable speculation, but
II is believed that this was agreed upon
at a conference between Governor Magoon
and PreSident-elect Gomez 1t is not
thought TO be a measure of precaution,
for which not the slightest necessity is
apparent, but Ii probably is for the pur-
pose OF keeping the barracks and quar-
tiers in good order until IL is possible to
turn over to the Cuban authority a model
camp fer occupation by the new perma-
ment army under command of General
Pine Guerra. the nucleus of which will
be formed, it is intended, with the present
corps of Cuban artillery and thousand
members of the rural guard
Cubans are greatly pleased by the
departure of the American forces as
marking the complete esta blishment of
independence All show the kindest feel
ing towards the troops.