Show FIFTEENTH BOYS TO PROTECT AMERICAN INTERESTS IN CHINA CHiN 1 WilL Y BE AT LEGATION t coop Troops s From Fort Douglas May See Active Service in Present Trouble I UA ED m AT PEKING Foreign Armed Forces Scattered Over OverLarge it Large Area Yankees Area Yankees Will Be BeIJ Bel IJ 1 l Welcomed a ar HE news that t the Fifteenth r r merit ment of United States Infantry which left lett Tort Fort Douglas last for Manila will probably not find and Ind at the Pacific Island port but be forthwith for China Is Ie lly 11 Interesting to Salt Lake IH people regiment which Is commanded by Colonel lonel Frank B. B B Jones was stationed here ere for four years cars an and 1 became became vcr very popular It Is to be recruited up to Its full ell war strength L 1200 L u men mon the addi nal Iv 10 s. s ace board the transport Thomas Thomae upon Its tJ is arrival at nt Manila a. a December 1 A field eld hospital corps section of ot en engineers engi leEl'S l- l eElS eEl'S signal men telegraphers and a of field artillery will also be bei i tnt lent nt to the middle kingdom with the Fifteen tho T I-T byTe That t events ar arthe are a moving more rapidly China than the dispatches would lead lore cane one o t to o believe e Is evident e c from the tho deo de- de of ot the thc department of war to rid nd the Fifteenth to the scene of the Washington has ever everen everen everen en reluctant to interfere in China Hit t tho the lives and property of ot Americans bo be protected and tho the only effective tive e e method Is by having th the boys In khaki on on the spot The Fifteenth hat has flot seen non any actual service since Its first flut campaign In the Philippines and h before fore leaving Salt Lake the tho officers expressed a hope that th they would see seea a I bit of real roal work In China EThe re regiment will In all probability be sent lent direct b by transport to Taku Tak bar at the mouth of the Felho river yron there hero they will bo be taken by train train to Peking a distance of about tulles and be stationed station cd at the barracks i Cf t tho the American guard in tho the legation compound Will Welcome FUt Fifteenth Thero Thero Is already a n. bOd body of about YO marines at the le legation atlon but in the tho event of hostilities similar to those of ot fl 1100 0 when hen the entire body of oC foreign foreign- torel nen n- n enat en at Peking was for tor days Hi j o i r y M W im f 1 i 1 fJ i I i I r t 4 I f 1 fJ JJ O r N t. t I iI I 1 I t i J t 1 g 1 JP H y lI r q r t i iR Yi y ii ci c 7 u h O l t i 2 j r i f W 1 o f i 1 f A M 2 Y ij Jr- Jr r. r nI 1 r I k rt i y 1 Hf x t Wf Jf f y S mi i ill j y y i American barracks at Peking where Fifteenth infantry formerly Y at Fort Port Douglas will be quartered In the British location legation subjected to a perfect storm of or shells and lead day and night tho the addition of the gallant Fifteenth will be heartily welcomed b by bythe bythe the Americans In China It Is evident that Washington does not Intend to be caught napping at an any rate as In tho i Boxer rebellion and the presence of I the tho military will do much to restore confidence Thoro Thero are two t-no regiments of oC British soldiers the Fusiliers and the Seventy second Punjabis at Tien Tien- tsin two and a a. half hours run by train from Peking At thir thir- ty-six ty hours distant the Germans have o six regiments of Infantry three regiments regiments regiments regi regi- ments of ot field artillery and one regi- regi regiment ment of cl mounted upon wiry mongolian ponies At Dalny forty forty- eight hours run from Peking the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese have quartered Russian w war r veterans Eight hundred miles further south at there thero are two more regiments of British troops With the exception of or the marine guard at the legation there thero are no American troops stationed In China and when whoa one remembers that tho the American population population pop pop- of the empire Is over the necessity for tor tho the Fifteenths Fifteenth's presence there during these times Is obvious Upon arrival at Peking the Fifteenth will be given Iven quarters at the legation barracks the tho only American barracks in the empire From there the sol sol- soldiers soldiers soldiers diers could be dispatched in small de detachments detachments do- do to guard isolated American property If It necessary It Is more probable probable able however that the they will be kept at Peking In order to protect the le legation legation lega lega- atlon a- a tion In case the revolutionists rc capture the tho ho city and perpetrate another such massacre as that at With Ith the shedding of or blood the Chinese see red and do not discriminate between and imperialists This is shown own by the killing of ot missionaries and others at The Thu presence of oC the military will do much to overawe overawe over over- awe the tho Chinese who vho have the fear of or the foreign devils devil's guns in their hearts as a legacy legac of or 1900 1000 I Salt Snit Lake will follow tollow with Inter Interest st tho the career of ot the Fifteenth In the tho celestial celes celes- Ual kingdom certain that whatever ma may betide tho the gallant regiment will uphold the honor and prestige of ot our country II |