Arizona republican., 1915-08-05
MORE TROOPS
 SENT TO BORDER
Unusual Activity Is Als" Noticed In the Army and Navy Departments Max ing Ready for Any Ser vice Demanded
ASSOCIATED PrEss DIsPATcHl


 WASHINGTON, August 4--Plans Tor tonorrow's conference of the state de- ,.artment on the Mexican problem were completeI aftrr Secretary Lansing talked with the president at Cornish over the telephone. The proposals that win he made to the six Latin American 5irIomats whose governments author iz,d them to cooperate with the Oni- ,e5 States to md Mexicos' civil war ,.omuleted after Secretary Lansing ,,,irtained silence as to the program outlined.
 Unusual activity in the war and navy departments was evident. and an order from Gen. scott, chief or staff, direct ,ns. ;, battery of the Fifth field artillery t, ,,r5caed from Fort. ,sIl, Oklahoma [" F-l Pa,-.s. aroused considerable surprise.
 Al tb. var department it was stated tr. artillery had been ordered at the ,.,,1est of the state department Sec r.tsrv Lansing said he knew notmnS aI,,,t it other department ofilclalS' however. said the action was prompted b,- a desire to have the Mexican bor- der well guarded particularly in VIC" or the recent uprisings at diIiereI roints. MT Lansing conferred with Paul Fuller. one of the president con -i5ertial advisers on the Mexican ar fairs who will participate m tornor- rows, eouferonce. Fuller recently talk st personally with all the faction lead CTS in Mexico observing the situation for the president
 ,-o official information concerning
 ! a ,r4raf sE L. can border town Of Nogales was re ,.ived Carranza has assured the stat ,leusrtment that he would not permit the attack. and officials were at loss Ia explaln the reported action of Gales, whose guns are said to have opened fr.. on the town. General Funston commanding all border troops. has standing orders to reply to the fire or tba Nexicans if their bullets fall on American territory. Officials believe he will act promptly if necessity to pr.t-ct American lives and property
 Army officers said a general assault or th. Mexican town could not avoid erdangering those on the American side of the border. Even should Cen ,ral Funston be compelled to open fire il ,-as stated. the plans for tomorrow s conference will be carried out. Order ing fresh troops to the border is gen eraUy regarded as part of the admin ietration's determination to restore or der in Mexico
 Although administration officials have given no hint of what will follow the conference. the army an navy have been preparing for any service it may be called upon to render. Secretary Lansing conferred at length yesterday with Secretary Daniels before the lat ter'S deIarture for Asheville, N- C. The ri.rpose of the conference was not dis closed.
 The first step to be proposed to- morrow will be the issuance of final appeal to the leaders of the fighting factions. and it is believed. the refusal of any leaders to join the peace con ference will be foliowd by an arms enl- hargo against that facticn. It will re oufre military activity to enforce such an embargo. some officials believe, even if actual intervention is not con- tenn lated. That the general plan in cludes the scheme of the selection of a president for Mexico entitled to office hv the constitutionalist'S successes has been agreed. Vasquez Tagle, minister of justice in Madero's cabinet, the only living member of the cabinet who did not resign is the most frequently men toned. Carranza is known to be op- posed to Tagle, and it was feared might decline to enter a conference that con- tenplatcd his elevation to the presi- dncy-