Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-01-20

tion to pack up and be off a
ment's notice. 1t that in "a hours or less
after call comes they will have all foodstIns,
personal equipment guns, ammunition, tents, hos
ptaI supplies and everything else that may be
needed, either in cold or 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 gun.
In the SHOWS of far-of Northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes,
You will find always the job
The United States Marines"
There has been only year since 1900 when
the marines were not called for duty on some
foreign shore. And during that period only 26
Of them have been killed. Nineteen OF these one
Of them an 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 We're killed in the Samar
campaign in the Philippines. Five were killed in
Nicaragua in October 1912, while fighting against
revoutionists. 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 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 find marines landing in China to
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 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, as they accompanied repre-
sentative of the American state department into
the heart of Abyssinia 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 an insurrec-
ton.
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 or
election, in Cuba as part of the Army Of
Cuban Publication, which succeeded in pacify-
ing the incipient Cuban revolution OF 1906, re-
naming in the field and occupying Cuba for about
two years. In this the marines were first
in the field and the only troops engaged in the
disarmament of the insurgent forces.
I.nama at election time in June. 1908 the
marines again as police at the polls. Threatened
destruction of American property IN Nicaragua
sent the marines there in December, 1909. and in
the following year they service in the same
revolutionary country. On account Of the revolu-
ton which resulted in the founding of the Chinese
republic, marines 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
gllnboat in the harbor being sufficient for the
needs of the occasion.
In 1907 the one year since 1900 when the ma
rines were not called for foreign military serv-
ice they aided in the humanitarian work Of help
ing the earthquake sufferers of the island o. ia
mafca.
Opportunity tor foreign travel is one OF the
inducements held 70 prospective recruits in
the service From one-half three-fourths of
marines enlistment it is pointed out, may be