The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-02-16
ABSENT HATTALIOAS
MAY co TO SCHOFIELD

It is reported that the remainder of
the First Field Artillery, now on duty
An the Philippines, will be sent to Soho
field Barracks, where the headquarters,
band and one battalion have been sta
toned for the past six months, Colonel
Rnmboug6 has heard this privately, but
neither he nor the military headquar-
tiers have had official veri6sation Of the
report.
A report came from Washington yes
terday that the notifications bill as
reported out of the committee to the
house of representatives, carries the
item of $4,000 for sea coast batteries
for Oahu The war departments origin
nj request was for 900.
The batteries obtained with this
amount would not extend the present
chain very far around the island and
may only be sufficient to procure guas
for battery near. Makapup Point. Gen
eral Murray, division commander, rec
commended after his recent visited to
the 1slands, that Oahu be encircled by
redopbts. The batteries at Fort Kane
hameha are yet far from being complete,
the mortars not yet having been placed
lin position in the. second emplacement
located near Battery, selfridge which
lcarries 12lnch straight fire guns.
The rumor, already mentioned in The
Advertiser, that Hawaii VIII become a
separate division when the thirteen
thousand troops, that have been order
ed here, are on duty at the various
lposts, is matter Of current news to
officers on the transport sherman.
l Regiments for Oahu.
The first, step, toward the reduction
of the military force in the Philippines
$50 far as organizations are concern
ed--has been taken by the war depart
ment. Orders have been issued delay.
ing the departure of the First Infan-
try, which was to leave San Francisco
on March 5, and which is now to sail
on the transport of May s. That regi.
ment will not go to the Philippines, in &C
cordance with the original schedule
but will take station in the Hawaiian
: Islands. 1t is the plan of the war de
} partment, as approved by the secretary
, OF war, to maintain garrison of but
six regiments-four of infantry anC
1.-TWO of cavalry---instead of twelve regi
ments, of which eight are of the in
fantry and four of the cavalry. The
companies of the organizations on duty
, in the Islands viii be maintained al
| WAR strength. 1t is claimed by the
! secretary of war that by this opera
ton the government will be able t.
, save a large amount of money, ont
g item, it is alleged, being in pay alone
! of over $1,200,0p0., By the new condi
tion it will be possible to make use o.
. six regiments in the military occupa
ton of. the Hawaiian Islands and thu
Canal Zone. The two cavalry regiment
l--the fourth and the thlrd--which ar
{ to go TO the Philippines in May an,
y June, respectively, viii not sail unit
4 lit is time to relieve the seventh an,
8 eighth regiments of cavalry. In othe
/. words, the third and fourth cavalr
j have had their dates of departure in
definitely postponed. The home comm
of the sixth, nineteenth, and ninth reg
iments of infantry, in the order named
y will occur as scheduled and will serv
e to reduce the infantry force in tn
d Philippines to the four regiments pre-
[. posed as the representation of tina
II arm, leaving the thirteenth, ifteent
e and twenty fourth infantry in the is
y ands with the Eighth Infantry, who
e is now in Honolulu on ronte to tn
3 Philippines.