Show ORDERED TO WITHDRAW TROOPS FROM CHINA United States Soldiers Will No Longer nace ce the Imperial Court at Pekin Demands of Russia Regarding Manchuria Cause Consternation tion Among Chinese Washington March 1 Carrying out the policy inaugurated by the state de department department department when it changed its ita military force in China into a legation guard the war department has sent orders to General Chaffee to still sun further reduce his force forc The general has now under his command about 1800 men com corn composed composed posed of troops I K L Land and M 11 Sixth cavalry battery F Fifth artillery and the Ninth infantry Although nominally nominally nominally ally a legation guard General force is of rather formidable offensive quantity and not desirous of retaining an unnecessary menace to the Chinese court and in order to hold out induce inducements inducements ments meats for its early return to Pekin the United States government some sometime sometime sometime time ago determined upon a further reduction of the American force and the orders went forward Considerable discretion was vas left to General Chaffee in the selection of the troops to remain and it is assumed at atthe atthe atthe the department that the Pekin dis dir dispatches diSpatches patches announcing that these consist of two companies of the Ninth infant infantry infantry ry under Major Robertson is correct If the other powers represented at Pe Pc Pekin Pekin kin can be induced to follow this policy it is hoped that a long step will have been effected toward the restoration of normal conditions at Pekin It is said at the war department that the arrangements have not yet been made for bringing away the troops from Pekin and it is believed that this can cannot cannot cannot not be done before the ice clears out of the Pei Pel river which is usually some sometime sometime sometime time in the latter part of larch The troops are to go to Manila thereby making good the losses which General MacArthurs command will sustain through the withdrawal of the volun volunteers volunteers volunteers who are coming home to be mus inns mustered mustered out It is understood at the war department that General Chaffee who will leave Pekin with these troops is isto isto isto to relieve General MacArthur of the supreme command in the Philippines |