The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-03-22
ARMY MARKING TIME
Orders For Movement of Troops
Is C0untermanded.

Sudden Change Of Front, Which Is
Known to Have Been Dictated From
Washington, Has Left Commanders
and Privates on the Raw Edge oi
Observation-Disclosures viii Tie Ur
Railroad Line South Of Laredo.
San Antonio, March 21.-Something
he's happened in Washington, or is
happening there, 10 bring about
radical change in orders regulating
the immediate movements of the di.
vision of the army now mobilized on
the big plain at Fort Sam Houston res.
ervation.
Sunday one squad of cavalry was
waiting orders to jump westward on a
train of the Southern Pacific lines
which has been assembled and lay
ready for instant departure and regi.
mental commanders of every unit in
the encampment had reason to believe
that within fortnight they would be
commanding their men on campaigns,
leaving their tents and heavy impedi.
menta standing behind them
Yesterday orders instituting the par.
tial and temporary disintegration of
the division were issued and the train
which was to carry the Eleventh cav.
airy squadron to Pecos river and
further West still stands ready but
empty.
Sudden Change Of Front.
This sudden change of front, which
is known to have been dictated from
Washington some time within the
last IL hours. has left commanders
and high privates equally on the raw
edge of indicision. The puzzlement
produced is complete.
Whenever correspondent poked
his head in a coloners tent he was
seized, set on cot and told to de.
liver what he knew about the why
and wherefore of the thing; what was
doing at Washington. There was
nothing but rumor and speculation
from end to end of the mile.long divi-
sion streets.
At the offices of the Southern Pacific
freight yards II was said that the
string of 100 stock cars had not been
broken and anyone could go and look
ut the l9 Pullman and tourists sleep
ers that had been hurriedly put togeth-
er in the late hours of Saturday night.
This dispite the fact that in the
afternoon General Carter stated with
emphasis that no orders whatever had
been given to the railroads to hold
cars in readiness for immediate requi.
siticn.
The strongest indication that pos
sible movement Of the troops to the
border or beyond within the next few
days had received countermanding or
ders from the war department, lay in
the announcement made at division
headquarters that General F. A. Smith,
commander of the First brigade, had
been given permission to march his
brigade to Leon Springs for maneuv-
ers. General Smiths brigade COM
prises the Eleventh, Fifteenth and
Eighteenth infantry regiments.
This means that about 1000 men
will be withdrawn from the forces at
Fort Sam Houston for a week when
the permission to move is carried out.
iEho hriooda will Ocounv tuA dovc on
the march each way to the army res
ervation at Leon Springs and will
spend three days In maneuvers and
rifle practice there.
Rebels Will Tie Up Railroads.
When Alfonso Madero was asked
concerning the report brought up here
from the state of Coajuilo that the in
surrectos there had planned to stop
communication on the line of the ma
tional railroads of Mexico south of
Laredo, he said that such report was
correct.
After today, he said, no trains would
run on that line south OF the Ameri-
can border The line would be taken be-
cause the Diaz forces had been moved
over the lines from the south to the
affected districts around Saltillo and
Montrey.
No confirmation of Madero's threat
could be had at the offices of the Ma.
tional railway in San Antonio or
from the & G. ~ offices at the con.
Meeting point, Laredo.
Reports of three days fighting in
the neighborhood of Saltillo were
brought up to San Antonio on the
northbound express.