THE AMERICAN NEGRO

Evening Star, Issue 13014, 8 January 1907, Page 6

THE AMERICAN NEGRO

MUST SERVE ABROAIV Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 7. All the colored regulars in the United States have been assigned for duty in the Philippines. General Bell states that it is their turn to go. It is assorted that the sending of these troops is not connected with the Brownsville incident, in which many colored troops were dismissed! for refusing to furnish President Roosevelt with the names of some of their comrades who were concerned in a riot. [The anti-negro outbreak at Atlanta in October last was of an extraordinary character, find largo number of negroes were kilted. At BrownsvUlo, in the neighborhood, where there is a negro uni versify, there was also a- negro regiment. This regiment assumed the offensive when the whites wore shooting down every negro on sight. The black soldiers rioted through the stroeits of the town, and in some cases discharged their firearms into the houses of residents. One citizen was killed. The battalion concerned in the affair was questioned about it, but the men'declined to divulge the names of their comrades who were the principal offenders. President Roosevelt consequently dismissed the members of the entire battalion from the military service.]