Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-20
RUSH ARMY OF
10000 TROOPS TO
COAST OF TEXAS
Nearly 5000 Ready to Board
Transports if Ordered To-
morrow Morning.

| HOUSTON, Tex, April 20.--The
second division of the United States
Army, here on a practise march, be-
gan a hurried movement back to
Texas City and Galveston today on
orders received from Washington at
o'clock this morning. The Fifth
brigade of the division WAS rushed
aboard troop trains but the remain
der OF the big army unit, which
brought nearly 10000 men here, was
ordered to make the sixty lille
hike" back to the coast on foot.
Plans ewre made for the Fifth bril-
gade to go aboard transports, al
though it was said no sailing orders
| have been received.
The plan was to have the Fifth,
numbering nearly 5000 men, ready
for sailing to Vera Cruz by Tuesday
morning in case a troop movement
should be ordered.
The second division. which has been
grooming in Texas City and. Calves
ton for a year. had marched to Hous-
ton until the middle of the week The
/ soldiers were to have paraded In q
local celebration April 81 Of the bat
= OF Sar Trainto. when Texas won
| independence from Mexico Their
march here from the coast last week
| indicated the men are hardy, no case
big command
The Fifth Brigade. which returned
to Galveston by train under the plans
already worked out for troop move
ments by sea, would be the first to go
aboard transports until orders for en-
barkation should specify some change
in program. By daylight. less than
thee hours after the orders to return
had been flashed into sleeping camp,
RYi0 0D DFn han nfs1i 1tY
trains. The quick movement developed
the fact that trains made up, except
for hooking on the engines, had been
held in readiness for Just such
orders.
The Fifth Brigade comprises the
Fourth, Seventh, Nineteenth and
Twenty-e eighth Infantry, and is in
command of Colonel Daniel German.
Its station is at Fort Crockett. Cal
weston, while the remainder of the
second division is stationed atsTexas
City.
General Frederick Funston, COM
manding the division, returned to his
headquarters at Texas City. in ad-
vance of the army.
INDIANAPOLIS, April 20.-Quiet,
yet rapid, preparations We're started
| today looking to the recruiting of the
| lIuldud NdLlOndl dadGd To IT'S IuIi
| war strength for it's field service in
case of war with Mexico. 1t was be-
| lieved hat the full strength. 4.500 men,
could be attained within a week or
! ten days, 1t was said at the quarter
master generals office.
| Governor Raiston today received
numerous requests from private citi-
| zens and former guard officers
| for permission to 0rganize'a company
of militia Frank B. .Hallogan. of the
| law department Of Valparaiso Univer-
sity. wired the governor, Offering the
| services of 500 students as soon as
H. governor had need of volunteers.
| CROSSE, Wis, April 20.-Gen-
eral Orlando Holway, commander of
the Wisconsin, Matte nal Guard, left
today. to rut the State camp in con-
dition for mobilization of the Wiscon-
sin National Guard should such a
move be ordered. General Holway
announced that he could have 5000
men in readiness in twenty-four
| hours.
| CHICAGO, April 20-All the United
| States troops remaining i'm the cen
| tra. division, about 1,500 cavalry and
six batteries of field guns, are ready
to entrain for the South and can be
on their way in twelve hours, it was
stated at division headquarters here
today There are four troops of The
fifth cavalry at Fort Sheridan and
four at Fort LeavefI worth, Kan, as
well as about 700 men at Fort Riley
Five batteries of field artillery are at
Fort Riley. The sixth is at Fort
Smelling. MINI.
In spite of the large number of ap-
plicants at the recruiting offices in
this city, the officers in charge have
accepted only the few men required
to fill vacancies caused by the dis
charge of men who have completed
their er'istments.
Through the Aero Club of Illinois a
dozen of the best-known aviators in
America have notified the army chiefs
of their readiness for service. The
men are bound by mutual agreement
entered into four months ago, to hold
themselves at the disposal of the gov
ernment i'm case of war. The flyers
have their aeroplanes in shape to go
to the front Immediately.