Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-01-16

ment's notice. 1t means that in "a hours or less
after n call comes they will have all foodstuffs,
personal equipment, guns, ammunition. tents, hos
pitaI supplies and everything else that may be
needed. either in cold 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 could take gun.
In the of far-of Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes,
You will find us always on the job,
The United States Marines"
There has been only year since 1900 when
the marines not called for duty come
foreign shore. And during that period only &c
of them have been killed. Nineteen of these
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 killed in the Samar
campaign in the Philippines. Five were killed in
Nicaragua in October, 1912, while fighting against
revolutonists 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 Masaya In addition.
as soon as General Chamorro then minister of
foreign affairs in Nicaragua. now minister from
that country to the United States. learned of the
deaths of the marines. he called American
Minister weitzel and expressed his sympathy and
that of his government.
In 1900 we find marines landing in China I'd
assist sailors and marines from other countries
in relieving the besieged legations at Pekin. In
II days this was accomplished. In 1901 they land
ed in Samar. of the Philippines; also
called to Panama and Colon They 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 a repre-
sentative of the American state department into
the heart of Abysslnia its capital for a confer
U-ff itg m in he
year another company went to Seoul Corea to
protect the American legation during an nsurrec
tlon
santo Domingo and Panama needed marines in
1905. In the following year it in Cuba and
Panama that they served in Panama on account
of disturbed conditions incident to the holding of
an election. in Cuba part of the Army of
Cuban Paciflcaton." which succeeded in pacfy-
ing the incpient Cuban revolution of 1906 re-
naming in the field and occupying Cuba for about
two years In this the marines 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 police at the polls. Threatened
destruction of American property in Nicaragua
sent the marines there in December, 1909 and in
the following year they saw service in the same
revolutionary country. On account of the revolu-
tion 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
gunboat in the harbor being sufficient for the
needs of the occasion.
In 1907, the year since 1900 when the ma
rines not called on for foreign military serv-
ice, they aided in the humanitarian work of help
ing the earthquake sufferers of the island of ia
maica.
Opportunity for foreign travel is one of the
inducements held out to prospective recruits in
the service. From onehalf TO three-fourths of
marines enlistment, It is pointed out may be