The San Francisco call., 1910-10-10
new REGULATION
FORARMY OFFICERS
Must Report With Regiments
When Ordered to Philippines
a Month Before Sailing
Especial Dispatch TO The Call

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Hereafter the
war department will require that all
officers of any regiment under orders
for the Philippines. who are not on
detached service from which they can
not be withdrawn, report for duty with
their regiments at least a month before
their dates of departure from their
posts OF cmbarkment at San Francisco
for Manila. This policy is initiated IN
order that the regiments may proceed
abroad as fully Differed as the ext
geneies of the service will permit.
Already in pursuance of this policy
orders have been issued directing Cap
tains Thomas l.. Donaldson Jr and
Edgar A. Sirmyer and First Lieutenant
John Watson, of the Eighth cavalry, to
rejoin their regiments at Fort Robin
son, Neb., by November 1. The regi-
ment is under orders to sail for the
Philippine islands from San Francisco
December 5.
Other army orders have been issued
as follows:
Captain Thomas L. Merrill. general staff. is re-
lieFed from duty in this city. and will sail from
San Francisco about December for duty in the
philippine islands.
Two boards of officers have been ap-
pointed to meet for the examination of
enlisted candidates for appointment to
the grade of second lieutenant in the
Philippines scouts. One board will meet
at the Presidio of San Francisco and
VIII be composed of the following
officers:
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Bullard Eighth
infantry; Major Philip G. Wales. medical corps:
Captain Frederick L. Knudsen. Eighth infantry;
First Lieutenant Charles T. King. medical corps,
and Second Lieutenant Fitzhush l.. Minnigerode,
Eighth infantry.
The other board will meet at the
Presidlo of Monterey and will be COM
posed Of the following officers:
I-icutenan; Colonel Nat P. pister. Thlrtieth
.nfantry Captain Frank A Wilcox. Thirtieth
infantry: Captain Lloyd r. Kolber, medical
corps; First Lieutenant Karl E. Homberg medi-
ral corps. and Second Lieutenant james G. Ord.
Thirtieth infantry.
NEW NAVY ORDERS
The following orders have been is
sued by the navy department:
Lieutenant Commander v s. Houston. de
tsched from duty as inspector at the nineteenth
lighthouse district, Honolulu, ordered TO Aslatic
station.
Lieutenant Commander A. X. Mitchell. de
! tsched from the navy yard Puget sound
ordered 10 the Asfatie station.
Passed Assistant Paymaster z H. Douglass
ordered to duty as pay officer of the Rainbow
Assistant Paymaster r. V dc w Biceckcr
ordered detached from duty pay officer OF
Chaplain J. e. Frazier. detached from the
Independence. ordered 10 the naval station al
Cavite.
Lieutensats H. F. Leary and c. l.. Arnold. de
tached from the North Dakota. ordered to ths
Asiatic station.
Ensign Z. u. washhurn. detached from tht
Georgia. ordered TO the Asiatie station
Ensign r. HILL detached from the Minnesota
ordered to the Asiatic station.
Ensign s. Belt. detached from the Salem
ordered TO the Asiatic station
The following cable has been re-
ceived from the commander in chief OF
the Asiatic feet:
Passed Assistant Surgeon G. I. Wiches or
dcred TO New York.
Lieutenant Commander H. T. Baker ordered
20 the naval station at Cayf;e.
Assistant Surgeon 4. z. Hun. detached from
/ the New York, ordered 20 the naval hospital Al
Canacao.
Assistant Surgeon S. ID. Hart detached from
| the Albany, ordered to the naval station a
0longapo."