Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-01-15


ments notice 1t means that in "a hours or less
after a call theyNwll have all foodstuffs,
personal equipment, guns ammunition, tents, hos
pital supplies and everything else that may be
needed, either in cold or warm country, aboard
ship and be ready sail for any part of the world
And off they go singing:
Our flags unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun;
We have fought in every cline and place
Where we could take a gun
In the SHOWS of far-off Northern lands
And in sunny tropic. scenes
You will find always the job.
The United States Marines"
There has been only one year siness1a9N- Ebea..
fexegn 81. - 8 ssssals sfg that period only 20
~ them fave Ueen killed Nineteen Of these, one
of them officer fell during the international
relief expedition to protect the foreign legations
at Pekin during the Boxer rebellion in 1900. In
the following year two were killed in the Samar
campaign in the Philippines. Five killed in
Nicaragua in October, 1912, while fighting against
revolutionsts The president of Nicaragua, mem
bers of his cabinet and other prominent citizens
Of the Central American republic attended the
funeral services of the four marines killed in the
fight at Barrancas HILL near Masaya. In addition,
General Chamorro, then minister of
foreign affairs in Nicaragua, now minister from
that country to the United States, learned of the
Minister Weitzel and expressed his sympathy and
that of his government
In 1900 we find marines landing in China to
assist sailors and marines from other countries
In relieving the beseged legations at Pekin. In
II days this was accomplished. In 1901 they land
ed in Samar, Of the Philippines; also were
called to Panama and Colon. They were in Pana.
ma again in the three following years.
In November, 1903, company of marines had
the novel experience of riding camels across the
deserts of Africa, they accompanied repre-
sentative of the American state department into
the heart of Abyssina to its capital for confer.
ence with its famous King Menelik In the same
year another company went to Seoul Corea to
protect the American legation during insurrec
ton.
Santo Domingo and Panama needed marines in
1905. In the following year 1t was in Cuba and
Panama that they served in Panama account
of disturbed conditions incident to the holding Of
an election, in Cuba as part of the Army Of 1
Cuban Pacificaton,' which succeeded in pacify- ~
ing the incpient Cuban revolution of 1906. re-
naming in the field and occupying Cuba for about
two years. In this case the marines were first
in the field and the only troops engaged in the
disarmament of the insurgent forces.
Panama at election time in June, 1908 the
marines again as police at the polls Threatened
of American property in Nicaragua
sent the marines there in December, 1902 and in
the following year they service in the same
country. On account of the revolu-
ton which resulted in the founding of the Chinese
republic marines were sent there In 1911 to en-
large the legation guard. Last year they fought
In Nicaragua. and this year they went to Santo
Domingo, although they were not compelled to go
ashore in the latter country, their presence on
yunboat in the harbor being sufficient for the
needs of the occasion.
In 1907, the one year since 1900 when the ma
ines not called for foreign military
ce, they aided in the humanitarian work of help
ng the earthquake sufferers of the island of ia
naica
Opportunity for foreign travel is one of the
Inducements held out to prospective recruits in
he service. From one-half to threefourths of
Marines enlistment 1t is pointed out, may be