The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-07
TROOPS TO CUBA
General Staff of the Army Is
sues Preparatory Orders
For Transporting Army of
5000 Men to Island.
FOUR BIG ARMY TRANSPORTS
To Be Put in Commission and
PrOviSiOned.
GarrisOnS of Army Posts Or
dered to Get Ready.

Washington. June THE general
STAFF of the army today issued pre-
paratory orders for the dispatch of :
military expedition of 5000 troops %
Cuba The four big army transports
now at Newport News were ordered q
be put in commission provisioned ana
supplied.
Orders also were sent to the army
posts from which the troops will he
drawn to have them in readiness for
the movement.
The troops will be taken from Piatts-
burg barracks, Forts Porter. Niagara
and Governors Island, New York, and
Forts Mcpherson and Oglethorpe in
Georgia.
At the war department it was en-
phaticalIy stated that if the expcdi-
tiOnary force did go to Cuba it WOULD
not sc with any thought OF pohtlcai
intervention in the island government
The principal object would be to aid
Cuba in restoring order. 1t was sald
the troops would be dispatched to the
eastern end of the island and wCilu
not go near Havana
One Fan of action which might be
adopted would be the drawing OF
military ines in the insurrecto terri
tory ard calling upon all persons to
come in. with the ultimatum of being
summali,y dealt with if found out
side"
This has been suggested as one way
to bring the insurrectos out of their
camps
Make Up the Expedition.
peditior would be the Fifth infantry,
Plattsburg barracks, New YORK; TWen-
ty-ninth infantry al Forts Porter, Jay
and Niagara, n. Y: the Seventy-seV-
enth infantry, the Eleventh cavalry at
Fort Oglethorpe and Battalion F.
Fourth field artillery, Ca mountain
battery at Fort ID. A. Russell. Wyo-
ming. Probably the last battalion
a-t a
week after orders are given because
of long overland trip to a port but it
is declared artillery would not be need
ed at first and would be there in am
pie TIM If it followed the troops with
in week.
President Gomez was notified last
"Wednesday that the United States
would 'rtervene in A substantial mill
tary- way to restore order in Cuba. un-
less his own army made some immedi-
ate progress. The proclamation which
Gomez las issued to the Cuban people
calling on them to aid in SuppreSSing
the uprising is believed to he directly
attributable to the notification.
a statement by General Estenoz, ire
inst1rrecto chief. denying that the ris-
ing was race war. or that the inSur-
reetcs had been. guilty of wanton out
RACES was made public at the state
department.
1t came from Estenoz through George
Collister, the American ranch owner,
who was reported captured. EStefIOZ
says at some length that the negro in
Cuba has been deprived of his consti
tutional rights. Estenoz continues he
has learned that American mining COM
panies have armed their laborers and
that he has warned them that if the
laborers are permitted to fight the in
surrectos I'VE shall retaliate by killing
every gallego on whom we can lay our
hands,
More Marines Land.
Santiago. June THE United States |
gunboat Paducah last night landed 80
marines under Lieutenant Philip Tor |
rey at the FL Cuero mines and so ma |
rines under Captain Gulio at Punta Dc |
Sal. These garrisons will be increased |
as soon as possible as they are consid- |
cred insufficient at present to protect !
the properties there.
Rebels Near Havana.
Havana. June Negroes armed with |
rifles attacked the Toledo sugar mill ut |
Marianas. a suburb of Havana today |
evidently with the intention of burning |
it. They were held back by privats /
armed guards but the firing continued |
until cavalry summoned by telephone |
from Camp Columbia appeared when |
the intruders fed. |
Births Remarked