| Show NEGRO SOLDIER TO PHILIPPINES War Val Department Decides to Send Regiment for Duty Duly in iii the Islands ORDER NOT PREJUDICIAL Utterly h d. d Si s to 0 Connect A With Rc it cent tt li Hl tin at il HIo Ole Jan Jau 5 The i The Washington war de- de e- e pa this afternoon officially con eon Hi med the report that the negro troops o of the tine army aImy have Im been assigned to ILl ice In the Philippines It declares hu cr that tt this Is merely In the lie line lime of an equal distribution antI and characterizes charac a as absurd the lie belief that lint these or orders ers arc aro prejudicial to tho Limo colored colore troops 01 or have b been en made mad on oh account o of the he Brownsville affair The statement prepared by hy Secretary of or War Var ar Taft TaCt this afternoon Is as totI follows fol tot I lows There was a time lime between 1 lao io 02 andI and I 1905 when the time colored regiments were nut not sent to tho the Philippines at all In lu iso IDOo however this policy polley was tentatively tenta tenta- lively changed change and the tIne Twenty fourth Infantry a colored regiment a was vas sent to the time an and Is now nov there The service ice of the Twenty fourth InIn In Infantry Infantry In- In fantry In the Philippines has been entirely en satisfactory and it is thought that he the service o of tho tIme other uther regiments will beIn be beIn In lit reporting upon mon this this- subject General Gen Gem eral ral Woods s stated slated Colored Troops hoing Well dl 1 I recently visited and made mado an I li- li cUon of the departments of th and Mindanao antI and found foun tin tho Twenty fourth Infantry cry ery ery welt well ell liked hiked IJ by ly the civil authorities In the of Its Us various stations In fact at the governor g expressed particular appreciation of the thc fine conduct con conduct duct of oC this regiment ji f Because of this report antI and expert ence the general staff recommended d and the lie department decided It to b W wise to return i to the lie former C equal foreign service ser of or all the time reel regi S meats o of the arm army rell Ji Thu present assignment of th Il other regiments to the S' S merely for 01 an all equal distribution or foreign service sel The They ha have not nol bee there herc for four years lm It now b becom become com f faIrS fair h to lo thom them and amid to tu other regiments ts that they thay be signed assigned d to the Philippines Philip Philippines pines In iii due duc OI- OI order Ct y Foreign service Jt it should be lie sad Increases the pa pay or of the men 20 pc per r cent and counts double time cor forre re It was pointed out a at lh department therefore that lint the d that these orders were prejudicial to the colored troops or or were mad matI on account of oC the lie BIown affair arrall sas ns utterly tt absurd U ll I I I it- it T 1 |
