Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1913-11-11
INVASION OF MEXICO.
Complete Plans Are Already Work.
ed Out.
REGULAR ARMY WILL MOVE FIRST.

REGULAR ARMY Will MOVE FIRST
Navy Will Block All Ports and Militia
Will Hold Down Situation on the
Border-Looks Like Activities May
Commence Soon.
A staff correspondent Of the New
York Sun sends from Ell Paso re-
view Of the present state of affairs in
Mexico, predicting intervention by the
United States and makes a forecast
Of the American plan of campaign,
following the first invasion. He says:
While Mr.. Bryan may assert that he
can conceive of nothing which could
bring about Intervention, 1t may be
said that today the war department
and the navy department are not
only ready to go into Mexico, but they
have worked out plans. they have
made arrangements to carry out those
plans and they can begin to move In
side of a half hour. 1t Is again safe
to say that within two hours after
the sending Of telegraphic instructions
from Washington, the guns Of Uncle
Sans field artillery would be In po-
sition to wipe Juarez off the map In
case of no surrender and to raze
Matamoras, Nuevo Laredo, Naco. Can
anea and every other Mexican town
along the border. -z
American troops would hold all
these outlets within half day, II that
were necessary. and control the termi-
nj of the railroads, national or pri-
vate, while fleets of warships In the
Atlantic and the Gulf Of Lower Cali
fornia would be moving up to cap
ture every Mexican port
A full day would see 10000 infan-
trymen and artillarymen-a full divi-
sion-at Texas City on transports
which are now waiting for them,
bound for Vera Cruz, the first import
ant strategic point toward Mexico
City. The following day would see
every United States soldier on the
mainland on trains from Washington,
on the western coast, and Vermont,
in the east, moving toward the posts
assigned to them. This is no guess
work and no prophecy; the plans are
made, the trains arranged for and
tested, the supplies provided for. IT
only required six hours to start for
Cuba in the last intervention and 1t
will not take so long in Mexico.
AS the situation stands today there
are six regiments Of cavalry-about
$500 men-guarding the frontier
from Brownsville, Texas, to San Di-
ego, Cal. The Second and Third cav
airy are at Ell Paso, the Fifth and
Ninth in Arizona, the Thirteenth In
New Mexico and the Fourteenth from
Opposite Nuevo Laredo to Maria,
Texas. There are in addition COM
panies of field artillery stationed at
every point near an important Mexi-
can border town.
General Scott In Command.
Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, at Ell
Paso, is in command Of the border
patrol, and upon him will fall the re-
sponsibility Of the first move. Gen.
Scott, who has fought along the bor-
der for years. is ready for 1t. His
command can move on call with the
quickness Of fire company and he
knows exactly what to do.
There are 10000 infantrymen at
Texas City and Galveston, under the
command of Major Gen. William H.
Carter. all as hard as hard service
can make them, and within call are
six transports lying along the wharves
Of Galveston ready to take them out.
The infantrymen belong to the
central department, which has head
quarters at Chicago, but Gen. Scott
and his men are under the command
of the southern department, the head
of which is Brig. Gen. Tasker H.
Bliss with headquarters at Fort Sam
Houston, San Antonio. where Is sta
toned another large force Of men.
The Fourth, Seventh and Eighth
cavalry are in the Philippines or
Honolulu. The First field artillery Is
in Honolulu and the Second in the
Philippines; the other four organiza-
tions are all within reach. The First,
Third, Eighth and Fifteenth infan-
tries are in the Philippines. the
Twenty-fifth is in Honolulu, while the
Tenth is at Panama. All the others
are ready either on the east or west
coast.
The United States army has avail
able for service as a mobile army In
Mexico about $1,000 men of all arms.
This does not include the 10000 coast
artillery nor the soldiers now in the
Philippines, Hawaii and the Canal
Zone. A month will see the mobile
army increased. for the coast artillery
could be drawn upon by the field ar
tillery, and veterans Of other cam
paigns, with new recruits. would come
in to raise the strength to $4,000 with
out impairing the efficiency.
Probable Plan of Attack.
OF course it is given to no one in
private life to say that such and such
is the definite authorized plan Of the
United States. That is known only to
the war college and the general staff
at Washington and to the heads Of the
navy, but enough Of the general plan
is known to say that there will be no
repetition Of Cuba in the Mexican
campaign, If Intervention comes. No
horde made up Of trained soldiers.
unframed militia and irregular troops
will make the campaign. We are not
going to inundate Mexico with United
States soldiers; we are going to en-
barge Mexico.
Every available warship Of the
United States is going to blockade
and patrol Mexican waters until not
a steamship or boat Of any kind can
land rifle or a cartridge on its coast.
In this way we will have the moral
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