Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-08-13
Some $4,000 Additional
Troops Included i'll War
Department Move.
HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH MEXICO
Kentucky, Ohio and Yer
mont First to Get In
structions to Entrain.

EA NSil laN'i p.Ns NuI. "sN'l -
w national guard units included
in President Wilson's call of June Is
not yet on the Mexican icrder, were
ordered there today by the war de
Fattment
Between 10000 ana $4,000 addition
al troops win thus be added to the
border forces National guard forces
there will number approximately
l25.Oo ana the total of all troops on
tho border or in Mexico will be l75,-
600.
Secretary Baker made formal an
nOunCement that the troop move
ment had nothing whatever 10 DO
with the Mexican situation as such,
and was soley To relieve thoustnds
Of troops now held in mobilization
Camus only because they lacked a few
recruits to bring units up to fixed
minimum strength.
Three Troops out.
Todays order sent the troops from
Kentucky, ohio and Vermont 10 the
border as soon as transportation can
be arranged for them and will move
all the others as soon as they are
properly equipped
War department officials decided
on their action because the troops are
restiVe in camp and there seemed TO
he no stimulus to recruiting while
there was no prospect of moNement
to Tho border. -,
The Kentucky. Ohio and Vermont
troops are composed Of the toilo"ihs
units
Kentucky. one brigade of three reg
iments of infantry, one company sis
mai corps. one field hospital ana one
Ambulance company, mopi lZcu at
Fort Thomas.
Ohio. two brigadcs OF three regi-
ments each of infantry one squad
ron cavalry one battalion feld ar
tillery. one battalion engineers one
battalion signal corps. three flelu
hospitals, two ambulance companies,
all mobilized at Columbus.
Vermont, one regiment infantry
and one squadron cavalry at Col
chester.
Order Goes Out.
This announcement was made at
the war department respecting the
order:
commanding general eastern de-
partmant has been directed to SEND
Kentucky troops to the border as
soon as they have been equipped
and transportation can be obtained
and to see that special attention is
given to getting Vermont troops TO
the border as soon as possible.
Commanding general central de-
partment has been directed to send
Ohio troops to the border as soon as
they are equipped and transporta-
ton can be obtained.
"All department commanders have
been directed to send all other ma
tional guard troops in their respec-
tive departments to the border as
soon as they are equipped and trans
portation can be obtained.
Secretary Baker also made public
n letter to a correspondent whose
name was not disclosed and who had
suggested that the government
should discharge state soldiers de-
string To return to their business
cares. The secretary wrote:
"a call to arms upon any body OF
men in the country. except the reg
ular army who make profession
Of the military life, would inevitably
interrupt business. professional and
personal careers, and 1t is impossible
10 imagine any situation in which
the organized militia and national
guard of the several states could be
summoned into the federal service
without hardship and inconvenience,
and yet both the constitution of the
United States and the laws made
pursuant thereto recognize these
militia and national guard units as
the secondary reliance of the gov
ernment for the protection of the
interests of the United States and
the lives of the citizens of the coun-
try.
THE department regrets these in
conveniences and hopes that the
emergency will rapidly disappear
and that there will be such restora-
ton of order and security on the
frontier as will permit the speedy
return of these citizen soldiers to
their several civilian pursuits. In
the meantime this department has
taken steps to initiate and relieve
as far as possible the unusual and
exceptional hardships which have
arisen in classes especially subject
to distress by reason of the services
demanded. To the extent that that
can be done in fact, ii will be done,
but the primary consideration must
be the safety Of our border and the
preservation and protection Of the
lives of our citizens there.
"It will be source of great hap
piness to me when full relief can be
given to these men who have placed
themselves subject to this call of
duty, and in the meantime | am
filled with admiration for the spirit
with which the militia has met the
call. and with which they are per
forming an important and necessary
service to their country at this time
SAN ANTONIO. Aug 12.-Practi-
cally all Of the $4,000 troops ordered
today by the war department to
proceed to the border will be sent to
FL Paso, General Frederick Funston
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