New-York tribune., 1910-12-31
PRESIDENTS Greeting
TO CIRCLE THE WORLD
New Years Message Sent by
Cable and Wireless to
Soldiers and Sailors.
FOR FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
Mr. Taft Expresses His Appre.
citation of Good Service Rem
dered by Army, Navy
and Marine Corps.
From The Tribune Bureau.


Washington. Dec. 30-The hundred
,srkets of the United States throughout
.be world are TO receive. for the first
zine. New Years greetings from the
President of the United States. express
,ng his appreciation of their good and
faithful services. Every New Year s
nav ali the army and navy officers sta
,;oned in Washington are expected to
,sf7 in body TO greet the President, but
this is the first time messages have been
sent 70 all the army. navy and marine
,orrs bv the Commander in Chief
Never before have the soldiers and
sailors heen SO widely distributed
throughout the world as to-day. Never
before have so many been in foreign
waters or on foreign stations. Accord
.nglx. President Taft held it fitting that
q special message of greeting be ad-
dressed to each command. to be accepted
as personal by every officer and man.
This message is being sent to every post
and station from Fort Myer. across the
Potomac River. to the Atlantic fleet
TOW Well out 10 sea from the English
Channel. the destroyers in the West
Indies. the gunboats in Central America
and interior China and the soldiers sta
toned in Alaska. even to the stragglers
Of the signal corps in a little ice camp
OF the Arctic Circle.
The messages were sent out tonight
by the Secretaries Of War and the
Navy TO their respective commands
and in order that ali may be received by
New Years morning. foreign cables and
wireless apparatus were necessarily
brought into extensive use. The troops
at the most remote stations in Alaska
can be reached by wireless only. as can
the battleship feet, which is on its way
TO Guantanamo.
Trying to Reach Battleship Fleet.
Efforts are being made tonight TO get
2 wireless message to the fleet from
shore stations on the British and French
coasts. but difficulty was experienced
owing 10 the fact that the navy has no
mutual arrangement with the foreign
wireless companies. If the message does
NOT GET through III this manner tonight
1be high powered wireless stations al
Rrant Rock. Mass. Key West and
Guantanamo will call necessarily until
they can make connection with the ont
IT On the tattleship Connecticut
The message TO the navy, sent by
Secretary Meyer. is as follows:
Tho President sends New Years greet
ings and cordial appreciation of service
to the officers and men of your conn
mand Transmit the above promptly &c
all under YOUR command for publication
prior 10 noon. January 1, 1911
The message 20 the army was sent
through ali division and department
commanders. the wording being Identical
with that sent 10 the navy The greet
ings TO the army will reach the en-
gineers on The Isthmus of Panama the
Porto Rico regiment of infantry, the
ten thousand or more troops in the Phil
ipnine Islands. those in the HaNalian
Islands and the portion Of the 10Th In
fsntry stationed in Alaska. as well as to
al posts IN the United States
The little old gunboat Annapolis Is
probably the only ship or station in the
entire service that cannot receive her
greetings on time. The Annapolis is the
station snip at Samoa. the nearest cable
station to which is at Suva. 1,Jp miles
away