| Show o I TO R Details DetI or ni I of fr tho the Army Armr Kir Year ar H Washington Nov L IThe The report of Often t ten Uen n John F P Weston We ton commissary general of t nce shows show that the total for tor the tho of ot the army Irm during the fiscal fal year were 32 The receipts from the sales Bales of ot subsistence stores tores tore during the same Caine period per were were An In Interesting feature Cco turo of ot tho the report Is 18 a statement nt from Cot Col Col Woodruff chief commissary of ot the army any In th pIne In n a which he says sas During the first three months of ot the thee period e l co coet by t this report stores here had lot for tO various vanous causes become bome greatly graty reduced but owing to the grand response made by b the tho commissary gen general eral crl to every call from this office omco and the he energetic action of ot the purchasing commissaries In San Francisco l and New York this was speedily corrected and this division was a soon supplied As Asno ms no n other army of ot Its I size sire has hM hn ever been ben supplied In the worlds history During the tho period covered by this I report tho the command command to be supplied lu pl ex cx extended tended from the great lt wall al of ot China I on the tho north to the Island of ot Borneo south Douth and the Islands of ot Guam on the east en t There here were vere 40 no stations In this archipelago besides the he troops In China and the prisoners In Guam In addition to the G troops end MOO officers In this division the tho sub subsistence department supplied su the he dell delI acle for tor the sick Irk rations r for tor 4 40 1000 OM prIll of ot war 1100 marines many man of or the flie stores tors for Cor the t e navy rations for Cor 1003 ICO tle civilian employee and pales rale stores foe foL fo the he array army amy navy na and arid marln officers of r Philippine Philppine commission lon and attaches Sad and Ind Americans employed by the army and by the he government In Its iti I treasury treasur post office omee Interior and de departments metropolitan and native naho po police polIce lice 1 scouts transports etc etc In other J words nearly persons occupying I Ia a country almost destitute of ot meat end and ant 1 vegetables and other food Co suit suitable suitable I able for tor Americans Americana were targe I iI ly I I from a single base bare 00 miles mUe dis die distant distant tant tant ant After the stores rache Manila they had bad to bo be landed handed In cascoe C and At were they tr then th distributed distribute by b short hort railroads and lien poled up narrow rivers by bya 1 wagons a on and ad carti ur along almost lot Bot It roads by pack pac mules end cool cl clI lea leu I over ove mountain trails tai II often ott n through a country Mid and rd some of ot the I lu J WK were OfU more moro distant la In Ip nr I time our country from fN Manila ManIl than Is II th th coital Ual ot of Cf I Col C Woodruff ort says Mya that during dUrB the th p by 11 the rort men I have huye y beep e returned t el to the tho th United c I States and about HOM l O have arrived In Inthe Inthe the Ue Philippines and that not a n single complaint has been beon received concerning the food too supply There Thero have Inv been received nt at at the Manila ManUa do de depot pot 16 pounds of ration articles and l d pounds of sales a stores have hlo bert been shipped from this do ho pot Pt pounds of or ration articles and pounds s of at sales nl s stores There has been some deterioration of ot stores dares s due to poor por storage and climatic ic io conditions Col Woodruff refers reter to tho thu th charges against the subsistence do de department and takes kes occasion lon to nay ray that such charges were greatly exaggerated ho what has already been In published concerning the losses los es by die dis dishonest honest officers and commissary sary sac ear vents gents ent together with the trials and ond con cn convictions of ot those Implicated He le de do defies detles fies Ies any Illegal purchases of cham champagne and nU nd says that tho the purchased purchase that were vere made were necessary ary for Cor or sick lck and debilitated male troops who purchased d It 1 at nt 82 cents a II pint Gen Jon Westons report deals quite ex ox extensively extensively with the Chinese campaign and quotes from officers who wh were in that expedition to show that the troops were well supplied |
