The Sentinel=record., 1914-04-24
INFANTRY, ARTILLERY AND CAV. AIRY ORDERED TO VERA
 CRUZ ON RUSH ORDERS.
TRANSPORTS TO SAIL TO-DAY
Five Regiments and Battery Going anu Looks Like an Offensive Move ment Against the Mexican Capital Is to Be Undertaken.

Galveston, Texas, April 23.-The Fifth brigade of the first division, U. s. A., tonight received orders to em- mark on waiting transports for Vera Cruz. The orders caused a furry of preparation, but little remains to be done except get up steam in the ships engines as the brigade has been ready here for three days and the transports have taken on two months provisions and 500 collins.
 It is expected the brigade will sail late tomorrow
 Brigadrier General Frederick Funston has been assigned to com mand the brigade ordered to Vera Cruz from Galveston.
 The orders were to take necessary ammunition and other supplies for at least thirty days. The four trans ports, Meade Mcclellan, Sumner and Fitzpatrick, loaded and waiting to go. carry already supplies for 4,500 men for at least sixty days. The orders impress the fact that infantry and ar tillery must arrive at Vera Cruz at the earliest possible moment.
 An extra transport is to be char tered This transport will probably be a commercial steamer. The navy will either furnish convoy for the troop transports or will send men-of- war out to meet the transports in TaI before the convoy arrives here. There are already three torpedo boat destroyers available here for convoy duty, the Preston, Reid and F1ussor. The troops will not start to board the transports until tomorrow morning at daybreak. The transports are ex- pected to begin to get away by sunset tomorrow, possibly litle earlier.
 The Fifth brigade of the United States army here is sleeping on the ground" tonight. this being the camp expression indicating that practically the last piece of baggage and equip ment belonging to the brigade has been placed aboard the transports here in preparedness for waiting or ders. Each soldier has a blanket for a bed and dog tents for shelter. As to when sailing orders might come there was no intimation, and at head quarters it was said the entire divi- sion of ,000 men was ready for any orders that could be issued. The four transports here during the day took aboard 1S,000 pounds of drugs and medicines.
 Beginning tomorrow the first con crete evidences of war enthusiasm in other parts of the country will begin to arrive here in the form of recruits. Four hundred are due to arrive be- tween tonight and Sunday from New York City, St. Louis and Denver.
 Newspaper correspondents as- signed to go with the army arrived in numbers today. Tie first formal credentials issued to any of these correspondents went to Richard Harding Davis.
 Private adyices here during the day contained no mention of the re- ported gathering of rioters in City nor of other trouble in Mexico.
 No cavalry will go aboard the four regular transports which leave to- morrow, according to tonight's plans at division headquarters here. This lis because of lack of accommodations and the fact that the boarding of the cavalry would probably interfere with and delay the movement of the infantry and artillery. It was planned also tonight to put aboard only one