The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-06-22
THE MILITIA Of ALL STATES
CALLED FOR BORDER SERVICE
Guardsmen VIII Be Held In Readiness
For Immediate Duty Along Mexican
Border Warships and Troops Being
Rushed To Mexico

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-Pres Wilson call.
ed out the militia of every state in the
union for service on the Mexican Dor,
der. BY order of the president the
navy department also got busy and
took precautions by sending more
ships to safeguard the interests OF
Americans on the Mexican water
fronts and to help the army, should
actual Intervention in the neighboT
republic be decided upon.
The presidents order calling the
national guard into the federal service
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
the necessity for the protection of the
the necessity for the protection of the
of the United States from Mexico and
proper to exercise the authority vested
in him by the constitution and laws
and call out the organized militia and
the national guard necessary for that
purpose.
BY Wilson's Orders.
Il am, in consequence, instructed by
Ine President to call into the service
of the United States forthwith,
through you, the following units of the
organized militia and the national
guard of the state-which the Presi,
dent directs shall be assembled at the
state mobilization point, state camp
grounds Tor at places designated to
you by the commanding general
Department. for muster into the serv-
ice of the United States.
Secretary Baker also issued the fol-
lowing statement:
In view of the disturbed conditions
on the Mexican border, and in order
to assure complete protection for all
Americans, the President has called
out substantially all the state militia
and will send them to the border
wherever and as fully as General Fun
ston determines them to be needed
for the purpose stated.
IF all are not needed an effort will
be made to relieve those on duty there
from time to time so as to distribute
the duty.
This call for militia is wholly I'M
related to General Pershing's expedi-
tion and contemplates no additional
entry into Mexico, except as may be
necessary to pursue bandits who at
tempt outrages on American soil
THE militia are being called out so
as to leave some troops in the several
states. They will be modified at their
home stations, where necessary re-
,cruiting can be done"
Details of Order.
Organizations to be accepted into
Federal service should have the mini
mum 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-
scribed in Section 2, Tables of Organ
iZation, United States Army. In case
any regiment, squardon or battalion
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 complete
such units may be moved to mobiliza-
tion camps and there inspected under
orders Of the Department Commander
TO determine fitness for recognition as
organized militia by the War Depart
ment.