The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-03-09
Still Maintained that Mobilization
is Merely For Purpose OF !,
Maneuvers
Quartermaster's Department Marvel OF Accuracy
Latest from Mexico is Diaz Enjoys Good Health
and Movement Has No Bearing on Mexi
can Politics and Has His Approval

"u3biAStItcHi VIGIL WI az 6llINC' .
who set The machinery going for tle
great gathering of United States
troops ana warships on the Mexican
frontier today set back In their chairs
in the war and navy departments 20
watch the thin, work.
From all directions trains ere car
rying soldiers, horses, field guns ani
ammunition toward the places c. rem
devious,
Official Washington still insists for
publication that the sole purposo OF
this great and unexpected display O..
military resources Of the :.;.;.on IS %
engage in field manorycrs an; pra1-
tice OF officers and non n iaEI and
naval activities under service cond:
ti0ns. In private they make little az
tempt to conceal the relations OF tic
maneuvcrs to conditions actual or
rretentlal, over the Mexican border
line
4 ttS tS4ililii+ Nt-i4 CfNl hbiILi i-lN u'ii
formed are pugzling tonight IS the
real attitude Of the Mex,ca2 ,soyeru-
ment toward this unprecedented dis
play of war resources az its very door
step.
1t is the general belief that tie
Diaz government was not in th9 ie&a-s
taken by surprise N tie matter. T.c
cordiality CT the relat,0-s oetweei
tae TAFT AMI the Dia~ a'm;.;stra
ions as expressed when TIE two pre-.
slents met on tie internatlcni
bridge last year have not been dimia
isbed by any happening since SO far
as is known here, and it IS taken Tor
granted that the Unprecedented moDi-
llzation ol troops within a few ster.
O! Mexican soil never could have beea
c'scetcl witsout syltablc in.crcnanEo
between the two governments, to
preclude The Possibility cf m.aunaeT-
standing.
Must be Understanding.
These WHO hold this view tn,nk Il;
is sufficient 10 ask what wouli nap
ren if one OF the great powers OF
Errepe would Suddenly mass a Gua--
ter OF its entire military force with
in striking distance OF the imag;na.-
line separating it from another, un-
less perfect understanding eXistea
ia advance
"There would he war eve. r-s..;.- =
these people say. Anl assuming the
vaIEty Of thelr argument they build
on It the belief that the presence o.
this great naval and military force al
most under tho shadow of the MeXi-
can flag is rot only not distasteful
hut is actually welcome . t,le Iiaz
government.
Old Washington cor.pa7c- today,
with the conditions pre9ai::ng Il; the
war and navy department, w,ta tac
turmoil and the eXritemeny tna: caar-
acterized the carly days of the SpaG,
isn-American war.
Thirty six hours after the determtr-
alton was reached to mobilize an en-
tire army division in Texas the offl-
cials TRANQUILITY watched the qu:e'
interest the workings cf the magnln-
cent machinery that had been so care
fully built up to respond 70 JUST suca
an emergency. The secretary OF was
was busy winding ZIP impor;a,' MAJ
tcrs of civil administration Ircparn-
tory 10 leaving Washington ror se..,
eral days. Ee was able to proceed
late in the day to Atlanta.
General Wood Busy.
Major General Wood, they chief Of
staff, came into town from his Fort
Never home and was soon busted
with the reports Of his subordinates
of the general staff, showing what
progress had been made in carrying
out the mobilization plan! These a.
parently bad been lai. viii pcr-ec-
tion and with the exception CT dis2at-
ching orlers to certain companies to
take the places Of others whose VITA
drawal to Texas had left some OF the
military posts without proper care
takers, there was little TO he done.
Major General Garter, who is com
mandlng the army division In Texas,
was looking after personal corespon-
dcnce and was making sure that his
favorite chargers would be suitably
cared for on the long railroad trip to