The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-07
National Guards Back From
Border to DemObiIize.
Presages Early Withdrawal of
Troops in Mexico.
EFFECT OF MEX. CONFERENCE
Intend Pershing's Men to Places
of Guards on Border.
No Kansas Troops Affected
Totals About $4,000.

Washington. Sept. THE $1,000
guardsmen returned from the border
by the recent order of the war de-
partment were today ordered muster
ed out of the federal service. The
guardsmen remaining on the border
stay there for the present.
The rehabilitation is understood to
be a preliminary to the withdrawal
of the punitive expedition from Mexi-
co which will take the guardsmen
places protecting the border line and
is regarded as a consequence of the
assem- bling of the international COM
mission to settle the border troubles.
The war department official an
nouncement was made in the follow
ing statement:
N. Y. Regiment Has Typhoid.
THE secretary of war directs that
all the organizations of the national
guard in the federal service recently
ordered from the border to their re-
spective mobilization camps be mus
tered out of the federal service as soon
as practicable and returned to the
normal status of national guard troops
except in the case of the Fourteenth
New York regiment which is to be
held in service at its mobilization camp
pending the prevalence in that regi-
ment of para typhoid.
"As soon as it can be safely done
this regiment also will be mustered
out. Similar precaution should be
taken with any other organization re-
turning from the border suffering
from any infection or which is under
suspicion of being infected"
Includes ii Regiments.
The troops affected are three regi-
ments from New York, two from New
= Jersey, one from Maryland. two from.
Illinois, two from Missouri, one from
California, one from Oregon, one from
Washington, and one from Louisiana
These units comprise in the aggre-
gate about $4,000 national guardsmen.
The plan for the mastering out of
the regiments will be executed under
the various departmental commanders
with whose jurisdiction these
organizations are placed. In many in
stances, where there is no reason to
hold them because of disease infection
the mastering out will be done imme-
dfately. 1t is expected that all the
organization except the Fourteenth
New York will be mustered out as
soon as the necessary routine is con-
cluded. The Yale battery modified at
Tobyhanna, Pa, was ordered to
Mantle, Conn, where it will be mus
tered out.
Order Affects 1000 Missourians.
Nevada, Sept. Nineteen hundred
MISSOURI guardSmen will be affected
by the rehabilitation order. The
| news was received with rejoicing at
the state military reservation here.
The troops here are the First and
| Third infantry regiments, the former
having its home station at ST Louis
and the latter at Kansas City The
regiments arrived here the first part
of the week from Laredo, Texas, and
| preparations were being made by the
officers for a long stay here. All
were without information concerning
| the order.
To Redistribufe Border Forces.
San Antonio, Sept. 7-Organiza-
| ton of the National guardsmen on the
| border into provisional divisions will
have to be started on a new basis it
| was said, at southern department
| headquarters, on receipt of news from
Washington that $4,000 guardsmen
/ now returning to their state camps
would be taken from the federal SER
vice.
The First and Second Kansas regi-
ments were on their way here today
from Eagle Pass to replace the First
and Second Illinois infantry, recalled
| to Springfield, Ill. in the provisional
division at Fort Sam Houston The
Ohio and Kentucky guardsmen have
just arrived at Ell Paso.