Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-26
WOOD WILL START
15,OOOGUARDSMEN
TO BORDER TODAY
Selection of Units Left to
Commanders in Diff
ferent States.
VIRGINIA COMMANDS
TO LEAVE IN DAY OR TWO
Secretary of War Baker Makes
Urgent Appeal for Move
rent of Militia.
ADMITS SERIOUS EMERGENCY
Funston Is Asked for Instructions as
to Where Men Are to BE
Sent
ADMITS SERIOUS EMERGENCY
Funston Is Asked for Instructions as
to Where Men Are to BE
Sent.

N.W YORK. Jun. 25.--Fifteen
;A'u:aad national gua rismen from the
ot New Tork. Ma ssachusetts,
Hew Jersey aud conn.c,icu, will start
for 'he Mexican border tomorrow.
Ma ator-citnera! Leonard Wood an
nouaccd lare tonight,
The selection ot the units viii he
!eft - the guard commanders in the
different states. Genera! Wood spcci-
fed in his order only the number Of
troops 10 move and their classification.
Transportation details also Will he az.
ranged by the puartcrmaster's depart
men, in each state.
Tho crack commands ~ Maine, New
Hampshire. Vermont. Delaware, Penn
sylva1ia, Maryland. Virginia and
F!oriIa vii! be started FOR the hor
dor Tueaday or Wednesday,
INiTs CHOSEN RY WOOD
FuIt FIRST MOVEMENT
IL all, there viii be eleven regi
Tacnts II infantry. one complete rsgi-
mon, OF cavalry. ore complete regimen,
RI field artillery. with the usual hos
pi;al and ambulance units ard sigma!
Corps for such a force.
A.ajor-Genegal Leonard Wood re-
ceived to-niEh; from Secretary Of War
I'aEer an urgent appeal to start for
iu+ border AZ once some o: the militia
ofrariza,ions under MS Jurisdiction
The emergency wa. considered so inn
pertant it was SAID 3, Governors
Island ths, meciica! examination ot tha
j vn would he waived II vas irttmated
icas, -"nuid cDtrair tonight
T1s first Sew York organizations.
i, w4s said will be the Sevcntie,h.
seventy-:irs, and Six,y-nin,h Intan-
.-y. the Twcnty-Second battalion OF
Engineers and Squadron A
The Sxty-ninth and the Engineers
a.a now a, Camp Bneknian.
General Wood announced tina, he had
-elecraphed General Funston advising
HIM Of the Intended departure OF the
TROOPS and asking instructions as to
whe-e they are 20 be sent
sEW YORK CONTINGENT
MOVES ny sUNDoWN TODAY
Statlstcians with General Wood S
stat. were engaged ,o-nigh, in ,abu-
iarinr the number cf men, their equip
r,cnt and supplies. Railroad officials
have been consulted, and il is expect
81 that by sundown tomorrow the en-
.irc contingent from New York State
5viil ne or It's way.
Tire infantry regiments will average
go and 1000 men. The other units
are believed 10 be recruited almost to
war strength.
Information from the Adjutant Gen
srai OF ;he District Of Columbia in
cllned General Wood to send one regi-
men: OF infantry and q separate bat
talon of infantry from the District to
the south on Tuesday night.
The number OF National Guard troops
OF the Department of the East in the
mobilization camps to-day to
$4,000. according TO Maior-General
Woods report to the War Department.
The days large increase was due
70 the concentration Of nine regiments
ct PENNSYLVANIA infantry. three resi-
rcnts Maryland infantry, and two
regimen of Virginia infantry. TIE
forces Camp whitman. Beekman, ~
Y, also we're strengthened to-day.
COAST ARTILLERY
ORDERED TO BORDER
Especial to The Times -Dispatch.I
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL, June 25.-
The alarms OF imminent war reached
the Prcsidio to-day with unmistakable
clearncss.
Emergency orders we're received
from Washington to entrain seven of
tie ten Coast Artillery Companies for
the California Mexican border at once
AZ midnight n special train was sched-
,iea TO pull out from the Southern