Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-02-23
Generalo Woods Issues Or ders and Soldiers are Ira
 yelling to Galveston.
IS TT INTERV VENTION?
Railroads Are Out of Commission iu Meyiro and Rebels Stiii
 Active.


 brigade of the U $. A. composing five thousand men from the infantry. ar tillery and signal corps branches. were ordered at noon today to proceed to Galveston With full equipment for service immediately.
 The order was issued by Majer
 General Wood chief of the Army staff,
 and directed to Brigader General i
 Fred A. Smith, at Omaha. Neb, which is the headquarters of the Fifth brig ade. The movement of troops can on- ly mean that danger of intervention, instead of growing less has if any, hing, been increased by the uncertain calm in Mexico during the last three l Jays. Unvarying reports to the State De- partment tell that the Huerta-Diaz regime is but tottering makeshift more engaged in visiting vengeance on the heads of it's enemies than in
  sired by foreign powers.
 Other Troops Move. It is announced that as soon as transportation can be arranged the First brigade which has headquarters at Madison Barracks, New York, will start for Galveston. This will place nj army of 5000 men at yGalyestsa T ! within the next sixty days, fully equipped to go to the relief of the terror stricken foreigners in Mexico whose appeals for protection have at tracted the attention of the entire civilized world. Perhaps the
 Third cavalry from the same, neigh later than Thursday or Friday of l nert week. The use of the cavalry arm will complete the efficiency of she brigade which is designed for ser lice in Mexico.
 The three transports, Fitzpatrick, ] Sumner and Mcclellan, are due to ar
 
 1 ambarking the brigade tomorrow night. The Meade, now en route to Guantanamo, with marines, has been l ordered to proceed at once to Calves l ton as soon as the men on board can | be unloaded. The one thousand two 1 hundred marines will be distributed
 among the battleships now awaiting l orders at Guantanamo.
 The camp site selected is at Gal ! weston Island. The base of supplies l will be Texas City where advantage
 ous railroad facilities can be had. The commissary department is now load ng several special trains with sup plies of a character which indicate l that the War Department expects to 1 be called upon to conduct an extend-
 ed campaign.
 At the office of General Wood in the | War Department, it is estimated that l the Twenty eighth infantry, the most ] remote from Galveston, should arrive at it's destination not later than We'd nesday. The regiment is carrying with it live stock and sufficient 1 number of wagons to transport sup l plies during an active campaign. 1 Necessarily the train movement O. this organization will be somewha. slower than if it were not obliged to stop at frequent intervals to feed and ! water stock. Arrangements Complete.
 The completeness with which all arrangements have been made by the War Department is predicted on advices that railroad facilities in Mex ico will be practically no use in case of intervention or invasion. Reports to the state department today tell that all railroad communication north of
 Mexico City has been cut off. The service between Vera Cruz and the
 Mexican capital is also unreliable. The consuls at Manzanillo reported that the Cruiser Colorado had arriv-
 ed there. Reports from Nogales are l to the effect that while no disorders have occurred the attitude of the
 Mexican troops at Agua Trieta and of I the people at Cananea is uncertain. l The consul at San Luis Potosi re-