Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-02-22
WILL BEGIN ARRIVING AT GAL
WESTON SUNDAY NIGHT, READY
TO SAIL ON TRANSPORTS Kill
PATRICK, SUMNER, MCCLELLAN.
by Associated Press.l


Washington, ID. c., Feb. 22-The fifth
brigade of the second division of the re-
organized army, consisting of four in.
fantry regiments under Brgadier Gen
cral f. A Smith, is ordered to Calves
ton in readiness to embark for foreign
service.
The troops will begin arriving in Gal.
weston by Sunday night ready to sail on
the transports Fitzpatrick, Sumner and
Mcclellan.
The state department said positively
today there was no intention of using
armed forces 10 back up President
Taft's position that MaderO should not
be executed. 1t will be left to Wilson
and the secretary Of state to determine
what shall be done
Meanwhile Taft's administration re-
CARDS it as duty to assemble sufficient
military forces at the most convenient
embarkation point in the case the next
administration wishes to use this force.
He declared that the troops will not
sail at the present.
TOday's order is simply one of the
steps taken to have the troops ready for
any emergency. In fact. it is intimated
that one of the purposes is to provide
President Wilson with the proper facil-
tiles to carry out any plan he may have
in contemplation regarding the Mexican
situation, but the movement of course
does not commit him any way to policy
of fOrcible Intervention.
The regiments affected by this new or
der are the fourth infantry at Fort
Omaha, Nebraska, Fort Crook, Nebras-
ka, and Fort Smelling. Mimi; the seventh
infaHtry at Fort LeavenwOrth. Kan;
the nineteenth infantry at Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan, Fort Meade, :. ID, and Fort
Sill, Okla, and the twenty-eighth in
fantry at Fort Smelling. MINI.
These troops will be in movement
Immediately. A week ago the division
commander. Major General Carter was
instructed to have them placed in posi-
ton for immediate foreign service All
the railroad facilities have been ar
ranged, wagons have been provided, the
soldiers have packed their hayersacks,
rolled their tents and blankets, and are
ready to entrain within one hour after
they have received the order
The infantry regiments there will be
/ attached to the expeditionary force,
company of engineer from either the 2nd
or 3rd battiliOn, field hospital number
and ID company signal corps, all now
I 3 and ambulance company number 3,
stationed at Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan. A
sufficient artillery force has already
been attached TO the brigade. 1t is the
4th field artillery mountedl stationed at
\ Fort ID. A. Russell. Wyoming. "tr
\ These orders should bring the fifth
brigOde, as assembled ut Galveston, up
to an effective strength Of about $500
men.
The troops will be temporarily sta
toned at Fort Crockett on Galveston
Island, and the supply depot will be es-
tablished ut Texas City.
The general staff estimates that the
2Sth infantry, the most remote from
Galveston. stationed at Fort Smelling,
near st. Paul, Minn,. should arrive by
! Wednesday.
AS infantry as rule can not accom-
plish much without cavalry support, If
the present policy of making ready for
eventualitieS is to be pursued to a lOgi-
cal conclusion, tOday's orders to the in
fantry will be followed soon by another
order to General Carter to assemble at
Galveston the 2nd cavalry division, com
manded by Brigadier General TaskeP
Bliss This is composed Of the 9th and
9th cavalry. The troops are scattered
through Texas and New Mexico.