Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-05-15 | Page 16 | Coast Artillery Ready to Embark

I COAST ARTILLERY READY TO EMBARK New York. May U Seventy-elht mm-panles mm-panles f coast artillery w i-n- today ordered or-dered bs held in readiness t" go t.-. Gftlveston, the army embarkation point Tl mp.nnl".1 totaling hetv--n lyKM nn.l 9000 men. arc to be drawn froR certain . . f the Ihlrlytwo posts alons th Atlantic Bcaooerd. Great secrecy is being observed ob-served concerning the personnel of the commands chosen for the move. The troops will go forward as provisional provi-sional Infante regiment. Ammunition, fitlil equipment, wag-on provisions and service rations for their use havu already al-ready been forwarded by transports Fifteen transports will he at Galveston when the soldiers arrive there They will be equipped to carry MjOO men, 2000 hordes and l0n mules, ana under hatches will be ev.-ry necessity for field campaign. cam-paign. The orders to "get ready" were received re-ceived at Kort Wright, near New London. Lon-don. Conn., before daybreak. Colortel J D Barrette was Instructed to have eight Companies Of artillery In readiness and also to have the Eleventh coast artillery band prepare to leave for the south at a moment s notice Major P H Andrews, surgeon at Fori Terry, took steps to bring the hospital corps up to complete war strength, and twenty American Red Cross nurses were notified, and fhorth before noon reached the transport City of Memphis. whlh mailed from the Brookln navy yard at 2 p. m. It Is probable tha,t the exat list of coast artillery companies ordered In readiness will not be given out for several sev-eral days, oo