| Show OUR ARMY IN ISLANDS NUMBER OF SOLDIERS TO BE REDUCED RE-DUCED TO 40000 S This tho Administration Believes Will Be Ample for the Present I Need oft1e Service in the Islands Washingtbn May 5ACLer1 careful consideration the situation the Administration Ad-ministration has decided to reduce the army In the Philippines to 40000 The opinion preyalls hero that this number will be ample for thp present needs of the service In tho islands and if conditions con-ditions continue to Improve In the satisfactory sat-isfactory manner that has been shown in the past few months tho force maybe may-be reduced still further The expecatton of the War department depart-ment Is that all of the volunteers now in the Philippines wjll have left the islands by the end of June leaving only the regulars on duty there Following Fol-lowing the departure of volntccrs will come the regulars who were sent Oto Manila In 1898 Just after the outbreak I hostilities and their movement home will continue until the force reduced to approximately 40000 men |
