The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-25
UNCLE SAM IS
NOW READYTO
ENTER MEXICO
VAST ARMY MOBILIZED
ALONG THE FRONTIER
President Taft Will Soon Have
10000 Men Assembled Near
Galveston. Texas
United States Has Not Yet RecOg-
nized the New Government
and Nav Intervene.

WASHINGTON. ID c. Feb. "a
Military orders few thick and fast to-
day in redemption OF resident Taft's
promise to have an army oi 10000 men
assembled at Galveston. .he most con
venient port to Mexico. all equipped
for foreign service and ready to exc
cute any order that his successor
might choose TO issue upon the basis
of the conditions that will exist after
March g.
These orders. on the whole. werc
supplementary to those which began
TO flow from the War Department to-
wards the end OF last week. and were
calculated to insure the assemblage
Of the Second division OF the reorgan-
lied army az or In the neighborhood
of Galveston
The completion of the orders 10
move the entire Second division is in.
tended as further warning TO Mexico
that there will be no departure from
the established policy OF preparedness
during the remaining week of Presi-
dent Taft's administration
Modifying Troops.
All plans for the possible sending Of
troops into the republic To the south
viii continue with the same minute
ness OF detail which would character
iZe Official orders had the present
acute condition arisen in Mexico al
any time earlier IN the strife which
has rent that republic since the frs
uprising against Porhrio Diaz more
Shan two years ago This course Is
justified on the ground that any cessa-
zion in the closing days. or even hours
Of the Taft administration might be-
seized hold OF by Mexican malc0ntents
IN sos
leans which could not be adequately
overcome should officials here relax
their vigilance.
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 il largely 10 the
recommendations Of Ambassador VIII
son. whose course so FAR. under OK.
tremely difficult and delicate circum-
stances. has met with the unqualified
approval OF the department
Major General William ~ Carter.
who commands the Second division.
vas ordered to-day from Chicago 10
Galveston. This will he the second
lime that this officer has had the hon
or Of commanding complete division
" Texas the first time being in the
,ase OF the mobilization 81 1911. when
he Mexican trouble first became
icute
Army Moving.
The Fifth brigade Of This division IL
already moving under pr, ious ORDER
20 Galveston. a. Is the Fourteenth field
artillery. composed of mountain hsf.
teries The order i-surd to-day viii
set IN motion the Fourth brigade tho
sixth brigade and tho sixth cavalry.
irigadier General FrednrIrk \ Smith
commands the Firm brigade. previous.
ordered 10 concentrate Colonel Fd.
win r Glenn. Of the Tweutv-fhird co..
'antry will command tho Fourth brig.
sde. in the Illness of BrigadiDr General
Ramsay - Potts. and Colonel Arthur
Williams. OF the Eleventh infantry.
will command tDe sixth brirad. 100
Ilace Of Brigadier General Clarence
tdward- who Dis under orders tor ph. .I
lpIdne service The War Departments
estimate .s that uuGnr th.-" orders
there VIII bc concentrated .. Gtlyos.
'on between 5000 and t.uYu infantry.
shout sou cavalry ana about OBJ. same
lImber ~ field arfilIfr.. or O. total u.
nearly n.G0I men
These troops tra t.I.I. scattered
throughout fhr Middle state. and
iong the Mississ ppi rtrr from f.
-'u'f ~ tanadt DIrf. tIr mau...
gofs Of 1871 u require. $50 weeks.
time fo gef some OF f.r .DIIf.r4 ID.
Texas. bar it d.. bDirted tba. .hl. r.
-od can be 't u ftf af present
even then tn" uhof. Second Division
Gil almost corftIrI. H. 10 Galveston
" in DO" vicinity -rmn Time before fra
1eressart water fr.r rnrfat.na rau Dol.
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