Show I GEN SHAFTERS RETIREMENT It Will Not Affect His Rank In the V I Army i i I V Washington Oct 14 < The retirement retire-ment on Monday next of General 1 Shatter Shat-ter at San Francisco vvill not affeciL that ofllccra rank in the > volunteer establishment estab-lishment or cause any change in his present command V V As the case stands General Shatter is a brigadier in the regular establishment estab-lishment and a major general of Volunteers Volun-teers He retires by law on > Oct 10 but the war depai tmenit does not deem it expedient to relieve him of his command com-mand at he Pie > dfo and to V place In charge there some otlier ofiiser whose grasp of the many details connected 1 wIth the return of the volunteer from VhVe Philippines and the forwarding of the new rfigim ntg would be less cdm plofce than that of General Sfcafter ThE precedent for retaining General Shaf ter1 In his volunteer command was et V taohshed Jn the case of General Graham Gra-ham at Camp Mjeade last year The retirejnent of General Shatter will make loom for the promotion of either Geneial t Lawton or General Mac Arthur to tfte rank oC hrisefjter general gen-eral in the regular establishnrent Both j V or these ofllcera now hold the tank of colonel In conncotion Wi ith these retirements and promotions it is understood that five Colonels of the line who will soon retire for age are to be successively promoted to thu rank of general officers offi-cers before V their retirement They are Colonel Royal T Frank V First artillery artil-lery Colonel Samuel pvenshlne Twen tythird infantry Colonel Alex M Ren nington Second artillery Colonel Louis H Carpenter Fifth cavalry and Colonel Daniel Surge Seventeenth infantry |