Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-08
Taft Orders 0ne-Fourth of En-
tire United States Army to
Stations Along the Rio
Grande,
GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT
ALL FOREIGN INTERESTS
Fleet Ordered to Rendezvous at
Southern California Ports to
Cooperate With Soldiers.
Gathered on Frontier,
IBy Mornlng Joutnai Special Leased wirel

IBy Morning Journal Special Leased Wire
Washington, March 7.-The mos
extensive movement of troops ant
war vessels ever executed in thi
country in time of peace is now unde
way by order of the president, th'
scenes of the movement being tbs
country along the Mexican boundar!
and the waters Of the two oceans a
either end Of it.
twenty thousand soldieTs-mor'
ethan ono-fourth Of the army Of th'
United States-of all arms of thu
service are moving toward the Mex
lean horder; four armored cruisers
comprising the fifth division of the
Atlantic fleet, have been ordered from
northefn waters to the naval station
at Guantanamo, Cuba, most of the
Pacific fleet is or shortly Will be Oh
its wav to assemble at San Pedr'
and San Diego, Cal, and 1000 ma
rines are preparing TO make thu
Guantanamo station their tcmporar!
headquarters.
1t was officially announced at th'
White House and at the war ane
navy departments that the purpos,
Of this great mobilization unprece
dentad save in war times, is the train.
ing of officers and men under servic'
conditions, and practice in co-opera'
ton between the land and nava
forces. Pains were taken by all Off,
cially concerned in the matter tC
give this color to the sudden activi
ties; but these statements were ac-
cepted with increasing reserve.
There have been important join
maneuvers in the last few years, bu
they have been planned far in ad
vance and carried out without ex
citement or even evidence Of interes
at the White House. To-day the ex'
ecutlve offices were stepped witt
mystery; the entire morning was Civ
en- over TO conferences with Officers
of the war and navy departments.
This thick atmosphere of mystery
and the efforts TO minimize the i'm
portance OF the business, lent a sig
nificmnce to the fact that Genera
Leonard Wood, chief of staff OF tht
army, IN an effort to elude interview
crs. slipped out OF one of the real
windows of the presidents elllce an,
beat retreat through the secluded
portions of the White House ground!
to a rear entrance of the war depart
ment
The real significance OF these actiV'
tiles which have been confined ap'
parently to the last forty-eight hours
or less. IL thought to relate very di
rectly to conditions in Mexico, ah'
to the growing belief that the sltua
ton there is by no means as satls
factory as the Mexican government
would have 1t believed. There are
persistent reports that the physica
condition of President Diaz has late
ly become such as to alarm MS ad
herents, and that momentous devel
opments are to be prepared for.
one report current here today wa
that the Pearson syndicate heavily
interested in enterprises in Northerl
Mexico had appealed TO the British
government for adequate protection
of themselves and other foreign IN
terests in preparation for the chaou
conditions that would almost Ger
tainly follow any serious loss of pres
tige to say nothing of the Collapse o
the Diaz government, II was SAT-
that the British ambassador ha'
taken up the question with the Amer
lean state department with sugses
tion that unless the United State
took immediate steps to EXHIBIT II
disposition and ability to protect for
esgn interests in Mexico, the Euro
pean governments, more parucuiafi
Great Britain and Germany, would b
compelled to do so.
OF course no direct confirmation o
this report was obtainable, but tn
sudden burst of martial activity CAV
II color.
Ambassador de La Darra, of tn
republic of Mexico, who has been Il
New York returned to Washington 10
night to fulfill 4 social engagement
and returned at midnight to NeN
York. He never Is loquacious abou
the affairs of his government an
professed entire ignorance as to IN
meaning of the mobilization OF Amer
lean troops.
He disclaimad any knowledge 0
any change in the internal condition
of Mexico and as for the health o
President Diaz. he insisted tina
nothing in the personal or onicia
communication of,the president indi
eaied nought but his satisfactory con