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...Baguio School, which needs three or four instructors, is situated in the mountains of northern Luzon, a day's trip from Manila, five thousand feet in height and of ideal climate. Founded in 1909, the school had grown in influence and its equipment had become complete when its teaching force was diminished with the outbreak of the War. Aiming first as a preparatory school for sons of American families within the Philippines, the school had grown to include boys from other parts of the Far East, Hong Kong, Canton, and even the Malay Archipelago. But in 1917 the school lost...
Lieutenant DeGroot was born in Morristown, New Jersey, 38 years ago. In 1898 he enlisted in the army, was assigned to the 18th Infantry, and immediately sent to the Philippine Islands, where he remained until after the capture of Manila and the cessation of hostilities. After the war Lieutenant De Groot remained in the army, and was commissioned second lieutenant in the 28th Infantry in May, 1917. He was promoted to his present rank in August, 1917, but whether he was in France at that time or not is not yet known, because the date of sailing of his unit...
Shortly after entering the Coast Artillery in 1908, he was sent to the Philippines, being stationed at Fort Mill, Corregidor Island, the main defense of Manila Bay, the scene of Admiral Dewy's famous victory. Returning to the United, States, he was assigned to Fort Andrews and Fort Strong in Boston Harbor, during...
...That an effective defence against an enterprising enemy in the Philippines could be made with a deficiency of 33 per cent of the manning details of the coast defences of Manila and Subig Bay and with a mobile force of a little over 7,000 American troops, supplemented by less than 6,000 Philippine Scouts, is manifestly impossible; that the great water-way of the Panama Canal cannot be protected against the operations of a first-class military power by the present or proposed garrison we contemplate placing there without the power and ability to reinforce it rapidly by troops...
...Strong went to the Philippines in 1898 as First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon in the United States Army. He studied tropical diseases and was made president of the Army board for investigations of them. Since 1901 he has been Directory of the Government Biological Laboratory at Manila, Where, in 1907, he was made Professor of Tropical Medicine in the College of Medicine and Surgery. In 1911 Dr. Strong went to China with Dr. Oscar Teague as delegate to the International Plague Conference called to investigate a serious outbreak of the pneumonic plague in Manchuria. In spite of overwhelming difficulties...