Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-03-15
TROOPS MOVE AS
IF FOR REAL WAR
Washington and Mexico Talk Is
for Peace.
MERELY A TEST, SAYS TAFT
Mexican Ambassador Insists Presl'
dent Dlaz is Able to Conduct Own
Affairs Without Assistance
From Outside.

Washington.-Wit the United
States showing great activity in mob
liking troops and ships along the Mex
lean border and the lower Pacific
coast. the war maneuver game start
ed renewed gossip that the United
States had been asked by Mexico to
intervene in its internal strife, not
withstanding emphatic denials on the
part of representatives of the Diaz
government
Senior De la Barra, the Mexican am
bassador, declares the mobilization Of
troops is not to be interpreted az a
forerunner of intervention, so far as
his government is concerned. He in
sists President Diaz is able to cope
with his own affairs without any out
side help.
President Taft and his cabinet in
sist the army and navy movement is
merely a test and is not to be'looked
upon as having anything to do with
Mexico
kilograms are pouring into the
headquarters of the army showing
that the movement Of troops is pro-
ceeding with the smoothness and
regularity of clockwork. More than
100 kilograms already have been re-
ceived, and the celebrity with which
the orders have been carried out, 1t
is said in military quarters, would
give the impression that the move
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Not hitch has been encountered.
and practically the entire force of
10000 men is now en- route to the
lower part of Texas and California.
The troops are equipped with ball
cartridges, although it is the invari-
able practice to supply troops with
blank ammunition for practice exer-
cises or peaceful maneuvers.
The orders to the troops stationed
at Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo., have de-
pleted that post and the war depart
ment ordered one battalion Of the
Second infantry at Fort Assinniboine
Mont, to Fort D. A. Russell TO care
for that station. This was the only
additional order for the movement of
the soldiers issued by Gen. Leonard
Wood, chief of STAFF Of the army.
The navy department is continu-
ing it's preparations for the dispatch
of the Fifth division of the Atlantic
feet and the large detachment of
marines of Guantanamo, Cuba. The
marines are being assembled at
Philadelphia for transportation on
the Dixie and Prairie. The men, with
their accoutrements and supplies, are
reaching the Pennsylvania port in per
feet order and smoothness.
The four armored cruisers of the
Fifth division, under Rear Admiral
Staunton, are being supplied with
their full complement of blueiackets.
There we're some vacancies in the
personnel of the division when the
order were first issued to the YES
sells. These are being filled prompt
ly from the enlisted force Of the navy
and the compliments of the ships win
be complete before the ships sail,
which probably will be in a few days
The Mexican embassy issued q
statement branding as preposterous
reports current that the Mexican gov.
eminent was looking to the United
States for aid in regulating its In
ternal affairs.
No Intervention Planned.
Mexico City-The American en-
bassy advised Minister Creel that ii
had received instructions from Wash
ington TO communicate with Presi
dent Diaz and assure the latter that
the concentration of troops along the
Mexican border did not have as its
object the occupation of Mexican ter
ritory.
1t was said that this Lessage was
sent in order to avoid the suspicious
which might arise at this time on &C
count of the large detachments OF
troops which the United States is
sending south.
Say Diaz Is Dead.
Washington Members of the Mex
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