The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-30
Funston Prepares to Station
Troops That Arrive Tonight.
Illinois and New York Regi-
ments to Border First.
KEEP GUARDS AT THE BORDER
Officers Say Troops Will Re-
main in Training Camps.
First Missouri Regiment Will
Leave Nevada Tonight.

san Antonio, Tex, June 3O.-Gen-
eral Funston today directed prepara-
tons for disposing of the militia
regiments which will reach their des-
| tinations on the border tonight and
early tomorrow.
The censorship was on regarding
the exact plans, but it was learned
that competent regular army officers
will be on hand to give any necessary
all at encampment points. Illinois
and New York troops will be the first
to arrive at their destinations. The
First Illinois infantry, closely followed
by the Second and Seventh. will be-
gin arriving at Fort Sam Houston late
this afternoon These troops as well
as others ordered to San Antonio will
remain at the fort until drilled 10 per-
/ lection and acclimated.
i Other militia who go to Eagle Pass
| Brownsville and other border points
| will get less drill but more actual war
fare practice. Some of them relieve
regulars, now on border duty, while
| others will merely reinforce the regu-
lars.
Guards Pour In.
Beginning tonight, constant
stream of militiamen will be pouring
| into General Funston's hands. Most
| of them are yet to be fully equipped as
| and this equipment will be distributed
i as rapidly as possible.
| The staff at Fort Sam Houston has
plans we'll outlined. 1t will be the
/ United States first test, since the
i Standardization war, in handling a
/ large number of mobile troops in one
| army department. There are about
/ $4,000 regulars now on duty in Mexico
and on the border, and the militia ar
| rivals will swell the total to 100000 at
-se,s~ 30
| will require many more motor trucks.
| maintaining communication between
| the commands and will require new
| field telegraph and wireless and many
details are yet to be accomplished.
4 Coast Troops on Way.
/ Sacramento, June 30-The first
iunits of the California guard to get
Iorders are en- route to Nogales, Ariz.,
To-day. Other organizations are wait
ing the command to entrain. The first
squadron of cavalry got away during
1.-THE night 1t is expected the first
battalion of field artillery will be next
I'd go. The Second and Fifth regiments
e&pect orders within "a hours.
1 Missouri Regiment Esntrains.
Nevada, June 30.-The first infan-
TRY regiment Missouri National guard
| struck camp this morning and before
noon all its tentage, equipment, bag
gage and transport wagons had been
loaded on trains in the railroad yards
1 adjacent to the military reservation in
/ preparation for movement to Laredo,
| Texas, today.
I The regiment was under orders to
tleave Nevada at either 4 o'clock this
Afternoon or Z tonight, depending upon
whether the troopers were to eat their
night meal in camp or on the trains.
Information at the camp was to the
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of the field artillery and the signal
corps or the fourth infantry regiment
probably would follow the first to-
morrow Physical examination of the
Fourth regiment headquarters OF
/ which are at ST. Joseph was completed
today and it is ready to move.
Train Guards at Border.
New York, June 30.-Even should
the Mexican situation ease up, the
National Guard of the United States
may be kept some time at border con-
cei'tration camps and put through a
rigorous course of training. High army
officers here today intimated that the
opportunity for training such a large
body of the citizen soldiery as will be
assembled on the border was too good
a one not to be utilized in the interest
military units.
Troop movements were practically
at a standstill in the eastern part OF
the country today. Now that Carranza
has released the negro troops of the
Tenth cavalry, there was perceptible
feeling among guardsmen officials
that it might be well to make haste
more slowly in sending of poorly
I equipped and poorly drilled militia
units to the border. 1t was admitted
, today that not a single one of the
regiments now en- route is fully fit
from a military standpoint, to stand
arduous service.