The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-06-22


dts who attempt outraees ont
; fAmerican soil.
! "The militia are being called out
{so as to leave some troops In the
| fseVerai states. They will be mobi-
| JIized at their home stations wherei
! necessary recruiting can be done."4
and asked EIseo Arredondo, Ambas-
sador designate, what he had learned
of the intentions of the Washington
government towards Mexico. In reply
Mr.. Arredondo included copy of Sec
rotary Bakers statement announcing
the call for the militia.
Order Goes to Governors.
The Presidents orders calling the
National Guard into the Federal serv-
ice went TO the Governor Of each
State in the form of the following
telegram signed by Secretary Baker:
Having in view the possibility OF
further aggression upon the territory
of the United States from Mexico and
the necessity for the proper protec-
tion of that frontier, the President
has thought proper to exercise the
authority vested in him by the Con-
stitutdon and laws and call out the
organized militia and the National
Guard necessary for that purpose.
am, in consequence, instructed by the
President to call into the service OF
the United States forthwith, through
you, the following units OF the organ
lied militia and National Guard OF
the State of -- which the PTes1-
dent directs shall be assembled at tho
State mobilization point, State camp
ground Cor at the places to be desdg-
mated to you by the commanding gem
eral, Department. for muster
into the service of the United States.
(Here follows a list Of the organi-
cations to be furnished by the desig-
mated State.)
Minimum Peace Strength.
organizations to ne accepted into
Federal service should have the min
imum peace strength now prescribed
for organized militia. The maximum
strength at which organizations will
be accepted and to which they should
be raised as soon as possible, is pre-
scrdbed in Section g. Tables Of Organ
ization, United States Army. In case
any regiment, battalion or squadron
now recognized as such, contains an
insufficient number of organizations to
enable it to conform at muster to
regular army organization tables,
the organizations necessary to COM
plete such units may be moved to
mobilization camps and there inspeo.
ted under orders of the department
commander to determine fitness for
recognition as organized mtt1Itia by
the war department.
Circular 49, Division of Militia
Affairs, 1914, prescribes organizations
desired from States as part of the
local tactical division and only these
organizations will be accepted into
service.
cit is requested that all officers of
the adjutant generals department,
uuartermaster corps and medical
crops, duly recognized as pertaining
to state headquarters under Table 1,
Tables of Organization, Organized
Militia, and not elsewhere required
for duty in State administration be
ordered to camp for duty as camp |
staff officers.
"Such number of these staff off,
GERS as the department commander
may determine may be mustered into |
service of the United States for the |
purpose of proper camp administra-
rtion and will be mustered out when
their services are no longer required.
''Where recognized brigadiers or d.
visions are called into service from
a state, the staff officers pertaining
to these units under Tables Of Organ
ization, United States Army, will be
mustered into service and also the
authorized sectors of small arms prac-
tice pertaining thereto.
Except for these two purposes OF
camp service and of the
prescribed camp service with tactical
units, officers of state headquarters
under Table I, above mentioned, will
not be mustered Unto service at this
time. If tactical divisions later are
organized the requisite official MUM
Der of the staff officers with rank az
prescribed for division staff will, al
far as practicable, be called into serv-
ice from those states which have fur
nished troops to such divisions.
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