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  fleet put under way with 30 days sup plies within a period of IS hours. No cavalry went today. but regiment probably the Sixth, will be embarked on the next transports. No accommoda- tion for the cavalry was possible on the ships which departed today The artillery taken was equipped with rapid fire guns and field pieces of the mountain type and pack mules The disposition of the froces on arrival at Vera Cruz has not been determined but 1t is virtually certain movement will be begun on their arrival to take possession of 27 miles of the railroad to the bride which is the keystone of the railroad system between Vera Cruz and Mexico City. In all about 1000 troops will reinforce the 5000 and up wards of marines and blueJackets
 Secretary Garrison had received only meagre reports of the fighting at Nuevo Laredo We are not going to invade Mexico under present conditions" he said ln answer to questions. The Ninth regi- ment of infantry. Battery A of the Third Field artillery and Troops I, K and L of the Fourteenth cavalry are at Laredo, Tex. The Mexican federal garrison was estimated at 1600, with force of 3OO0 scat tered along the way south to Monterey Three thousand rebels also are operating in the vicinity of Nuevo Laredo
 Center of Interest
 The navy department again was cen ter of intense interest, dispatches from the fleet being looked for expectantly there throughout the day. The occupa-. ton of Vera Cruz by the naval forces was reported complete. The total Amer ican killed thus far is IT and 70 wounded :; Mexicans 126 dead and 195 wounded
 Secretary Daniels gave most of his time to arranging for the department of Amer fcan refugees Most of the Americans at Puerto, Mexico, are aboard a Hawaiian American steamship anchored there while the British cruiser Berwick was ready to take on more. The gunboat Nashville has gone to relieve the congestion there No news of an official character of the interruption of the Tehuantepec railroad had been received, but American warships are at Salina Cruz, one of it's termini. ready to take on refugees.
 Preparations for keeping the army ana navy supplied with food and provisions were advanced by the Secretary of the Navy.
 MT. Daniels said conditions at Tampico were unchanged The Esperanza, a Ward liner which has left Vera Cruz with many American refugees, will stop at Tampico for more and then proceed to Galveston with passengers.
 MT. Daniel reiterated that no foreign vessels wuold be detained by the Ameri- can ships. To do so, he said would be an act of war. Even the troops on the Mexican transports were not interfered with at sea, but were allowed to land Those who landed were placed under guard when they got ashore that they might not attack the American forces who hold the customs house. Washington, April 24.-TIigh officials of the administration, who were confident that the constitutionalists would remain neutral in the present situation, pointed to the correspondence between Gen. Joa- quin Tellez, commander of the federal forces at Guaymas. and General Obre- gon, commanding the constitutonalists at Culiacan. as a concrete evidence of
 Request Refused The federal general had asked Obregon to join with him against the United States, but Obregon replied that Huerta was deliberately provoking foreign war and that while the constitutionalists themselves protested against the capture of Vera Cruz. and would resist inva- sion, they never would come to the as- sistance of Huertas troops
 Washington officials believe other mes sages have exchanged ill interior points between the federal and constitutionalist forces They regarded as of the utmost importance General Obregons declaration to Tellez in which he said:
 Should you be attacked by the Amer lean boat now in the harbor of Guaymas and defeated, as you always are, we will allow you to retreat, but hold you as prisoners until we receive instruc- tions from General Carranza as to dis position
 The American government is receiving much information along this line from the border.
 No Occasion for Alarm With the Ninth regiment of infan- try, three troops, I, K, and l., of the Fourteenth cavalry, Battery A of the Third field Artillery at Laredo, war de- partment officials said there was no occasion for alarm because the town had been fired upon by Mexican sol diers.
 As far as is known here, the Mex ican federal garrison at Nuevo Laredo comprised about 1900 men with 5000 other federals scattered between the border city and Monterey There are about 5000 rebel soldiers at Guerrero, Mex. below Nuevo Laredo. on the Rio Grande.
 We are not prepared to invade Mex leo under present conditions, This was Secretary Garrison's explanation of the war departments re6usal to authoriss