The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1913-02-28
THEY ARE EQUIPPED FOR FOR
EIoN SERVICE AND READY
FOR ANY ORDERS.
THERE WILL Be 10000 At GALVESTON
Sent From Many Forts-Men Ordered
to Texas Scattered From Canada
to GuIf-Entrain In Half the
Time Required In 1911 to
Mobilize on hte Mexl-
can Border.

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tary orders flew thick and fast today
in redemption of President Taft's
promise to have an army OF 10000
men assembled at Galveston, the most
convenient port to Mexico, all equip
ped for foreign service and ready to
execute any order that his successor
might choose to issue upon the basis
of the conditions that will exist after
March 4.
These orders on the whole were
supplementary to those which began
to flow from the war department to-
ward the end of last week and we're
calculated to insure the assemblage OF
the second division of the reorganized
army at or in the neighborhood of
Galveston. The completion of the or
ders to move the entire second divis-
ion is intended as further warning to
Mexico that there will be no departure
from the established policy Of prepar-
edness during the remaining week Of
President Taft's administration.
All plans for the possible sending
of troops into the republic to the
south will continue with the same
minuteness of detail which would
characterize official orders had the
present acute condition arisen in Mex
leo at any time earlier in the strife
which has rent that republic since
the first uprising against Porfirio
Diaz more than two years ago. This
course Is justified on the ground that
any cessation in the closing days or
might be seized hold Of by Mexican
malcontentents, as an opportunity for
a strike at which Americans could not
adequately overcome should officers
relax their vigil.
So far the state department has
given little thought to the question Of
political recognition of the new gov
eminent in Mexico inclining to await
further developments in the situation
and willing to regard it largely by the
recommendations of Ambassador Will
son whose course so far, under ex-
tremely difficult and delicate circum-
stances has met with the unqualified
approval OF Ju0 department.
Major General William H. Carter,
who commands the second division,
was ordered today from Chicago to
Galveston. This will be the second
time that this officer has had the hon.
or of commanding a complete division
OF troops within the limits Of the
state of Texas, the first being in the
case of the mobilization of 1911, when
the Mexican trouble first became
acute.
The fifth brigade of this division Is
already moving under previous orders
to Galveston, as is the fourth field
artillery, composed of mountain bat.
teries. The order issued today will set
in motion the fourth brigade, the sixth
brigade, and the sixth cavalry. .Briga-
der General Frederick A. Smith com.
mands the fifth brigade, previously or.
dered to concentrate; Col. Edwin F.
Glenn, of the Twenty-third infantry
will command the fourth brigade, in
the illness of Brigadier General Ram
say d. Potts, and Col. Arthur VIII
Jams Of the Eleventh infantry, will
command the sixth brigade in place
OF Brigadier General Clarence Ed
wards, who is under orders for Phil
ippine service. The war departments
estimate that under these orders there
will be concentrated at Galveston be
tween 5000 and 5000 infantry, about
800 cavalry, and about the same mum
Der of field artillery, or a total o.
nearly 10000 men.
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