Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1912-04-04
FROM THE PHILIPPINES.
Former Audrain Boy Writes His
Mother-Army Experiences.


to his mother, Mrs. L. A. Ellis, of
this city, with varying wording,
as follows, which we are permit
ted to publish and which we are
sure Nolan's many Audrain
county friends will be glad to
peruse:
| left Camp Jossman on Nov.
%, having obtained permission to
take what we call the inter-island
trip, that is, the trip on one of the
vessels OF the .. NJ. d., which sails
from Manila every month and
stops at all ports, where there is
an army post and which brings
to these posts the required quar-
termaster, commissary, medical,
ordnance and other supplies. |
had authority to make the trip on
the Warren" it being the
largest, fastest and best equipped
supply boat in the service here.
l arrived in Manila on Nov.
25th and would have left on
about Dec. Sth but the Warner
was taken off her run and ordered
held in readiness for a possible
trip to Obina. She was finally re-
turned to her regular run on Dec.
20. In the meanwhile orders were
issued for the oath Inft,, which
sailed from San Francisco on
Dec. 9th, to proceed to uoils and
take station at Camp Jossman.
The 10Th Infantry being ordered
to come to Manila on the same
transport, and for regimental
headquarters and two batallions
(eight companies) to take station
at VIM. Mckinley and one
battalion flour companies) to go
into camp on the Luneta Fill, the
last named place being a tract of
land that was formerly covered
by the waters of Manila Bay but
which has been reclaimed by fill
ing it i'll with stone and dirt. The
land there, even now, has not
thoroughly settled and / noticed
while drilling on it with my
company that it shook and rolled
to small extent.
The orders just recited We're
carried out. The regiment EN-
barked on Jan. 3rd and sailed on
Jan. 4th, arriving in Manila on
Jan. 9th. A case of measles and IA
case of mumps having been re
ported on board the entire regi-
ment had to go to the quarantine
station at Mariveles, which is just
at the entrance to the bay and be
fumigated. The regiment was
therefore held on board as were
500 recruits which had been
brought over from San Francisco
All of the mems clothing and
equipments, except articles of
metal, leather and rubber, were
placed-a company at a time, in
huge iron receptacle and subject
ed to an extremely hot tempera-
ture, their quarters fumigated
and the men required to bathe.
After which we again embarked
and came to Manila, on the Sth,
the entire regiment going into
camp, on the Fill. The 18th lnft.
left Ft, Mckinley on the 14th and
on the 18th the designated
batallions of the 10Th went out
to Mckinley, which is about
eight miles from Manila.
Two days before the 18th INIT.
sailed for home it having com
pleted two and half years here.
A battalion of the 18th INIT. at
Mckinley was ordered TO China
to guard a line of railroad, so the
other battalion, which is the one
to what | belong, was ordered out
to Mckinley.
Manila is quite gay now. For
the past five years they have had
a carnival, lasting a week, just a
regular Mexico, Mo-, Fair of the
'90's, on a larger scale. 1t lasts
this year from Feb. $40, in
elusive, and it is claimed that it
will be the best one yet.
Last Saturday, Sunday and
Monday my battalion took a prac-
tice march. We covered about 80