Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-07-01

! ihst tdll uSdliiS topps VI tlS iiii-
nois National Guard reached San An
tonic at $50 today. Two train sec
tions complete the regiment. The
First Illinois infantry is due at in
tervals of about an hour.
Washington, June 30,-Secretary
Baker announced today that orders
have been sent to all department
army commanders to suppress all
news concerning troop movements.
Washington, June 30.-Secretary
Baker announced today that orders
have been sent to all department
army commanders to suppress all
news concerning troop r.ovements.
The War department order fol-
lows:
"In view of the fact that general
knowledge Of troop movements en-
route to the border or in Texas might
result in some malicious act that
might seriously hamper these move
ments and also might result in un-
necessary loss Of life among troops,
it is directed that all concerned be
instructed to the effect that no infor-
nation as to movements of troops is
to be given to representatives of the
press or individuals other than the
officials of the railroads concerned or
representatives of the American Rail
way association, located at the vari-
Gus department headquarters and mo-
bilization and concentration points"
The new press bureau. of the War
department issued its first bulletin
stating that suitable propellers for
aeroplanes on the border have been
secured and are being sent forward.
Utah Artillery at Nogales.
San Antonio, Tex, June 30.-The
first of the National Guardsmen to
reach border station was one bat
talon of the Utah artillery that went
into camp at Nogales this afternoon.
Two regiments of the Illinois guards
men will reach San Antonio today.
San Antonio, Tex, June 30.-
While thousands of National Guards
men were moving over convergng
lines today, toward border stations,
extraordinary precautions were beng
take to prevent the exact routings
and schedules of the numerous spe-
cial trains from becoming widely
known. General Funston was in
structed by the secretary of war to
exercise the utmost precaution in
concealing details of the mobiliza-
ton. General managers of all rail-
roads carrying troops, have been re-
quested not to make public the move
ments of trains.
1t was explained at headquarters
that these measures were taken to
render more difficult any attempt
that might be made to wreck trains.
Information obtained by the intelli-
gence officers has indicated that such
al attempt might Oe llduc.
1t was hoped at General Funston's
headquarters that the greater part of
the troops now moving would be on
the border by Saturday night and that
early in the coming week such dispo-
sition would be effected as to render
available for prompt action the heav-
lily reinforced army along the inter-
national line.
Reports from General Pershing
and from officers at border posts con-
tanned no indication of hostility by
Mexican troops. Reports that a
strong Mexican force had interrupted
General Pershing's lines of COM
muncation were denied.
Thousands Pass Chicago.
Chicago. June 30,-Chicago con-
tinued today to be the Change cars"
or rather Change roads" point in the
movement of federalized National
Guards from the eastern department,
United States army, to the Mexican
border. During the night the First
Connecticut cavalry and the Con-
necticut signal corps arrived on the
Nickel Plate railroad and trans
ferred to the Chicago Grea. Western
tracks. Shortly afterward battalions
|, 2 and 3 of the Eighth Massa-
chuscetts infantry came in over the
Nickel Plate and switched to the Chi
cago and Alton railroad.
Pennsylvania troops are due today.
1t was said National Guards from
West Virginia may also pass through
this city late this afternoon.
Progress of preparing national
guardsmen in the central department
of the United States army to en-
train for the border reached final
stages in six of the fourteen states
today, according to reports received
at headquarters of Major General
Barry, department commander
In Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Indi-
ana, Colorado and Nebraska inven-
tories of property have been taken
in certain units. This is the last step
in the work of mastering in the
troops. Progress in mastering is re-
ported in Wisconsin, Iowa, North Da-
kota, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota,
while in Wyoming and South Dakota
the organizations are being prepared
for muster.
Illinois Regiments Move.
Springfield, June 50.-The Seventh
regiment, Illinois National Guard,
and the staff officers of the First in
fantry brigade, entrained for the
Mexican border at 9 O'Clock this
morning. The First cavalry is sched-
uled to leave at 5 this afternoon.