New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-06-21
MEXICAN SITUATION BECOMES.
ACUTE AND BREAK SEEMS
CERTAIN.
LOCAL COMPANIES ARE RAPID
LY Modified AND RE-
CRUITED.

WIN oANlCo11eIlI IeISueu III New Ulm
last Monday morning when the order
for the militia to mobilize and
recruit to full. strength at once came
from Adjutant General Wood as a
result of President Wilson calling the
National Guard of all the states to the
colors in the Mexican crisis. Both
the Machine Gun Company and Com
pany "A" were called in the morning
and the band got it's orders the middle
of the afternoon.
Captain Groebner's telegram read
as follows:
"The President of the United States
having called the militia and national
guards Of the state of Minnesota to-
the Service of the United States, I
am directed by the order to order
your organization to prepare for mo-
bilization and muster into United States
service. Recruit to sixty-five enlisted
me at once. Notify this office when
you have done so and await further
instructions. The utmost care should
be exercised by recruiting officers as
to physical condition of recruits
signed-WOoD- GENERAL
The message received at the same
time by Lieutenant Vim. Bierbaum
WEI Essentially the same and. he,
was instructed to recruit to the full
strength of fifty enlisted men to man
the machine guns. Both companies,
were somewhat below the required
strength but. enlistments have come
IN with "a rush and both companies will
soon be up to- the requirements and
ready to answer the call Of their country. !.
The situation that precipitated the.
sudden call to arms is the trouble will,
Mexico that has steadily been growing
toward crisis since the raid of Fran
CISCO Villa and his bandits called for
the punitive expedition into Mexico.
President Carranza Of Mexico demande,,
the Immediate withdrawal of General
Pershing's troups from Mexican soil
This seemed impossible until the ban
DIT was brought to book. for the killing
OF Americans at Columbus and several
brushes have occurred between the forces
OF Pershing and Carranza. Now the
American ambassador has been recalled
and war seems very imminent.
President Wilson's call, coming thru
Secretary of War Baker, is as follows:
Having in view the possibility of
further aggression upon the territory /;
OF the United States from Mexico, and
the necessity for the proper protection
OF. that frontier, the President has
thought proper to exercise the author
lty vested in him by the Constitution
and laws, and call out the organized
militia and the national guard neces-
sary for that purpose.
This order which includes the guards
men OF every state in the Union NOT
already on the frontier is expected to
raise in the neighborhood of 100000
soldiers at once who can be sent to
support Gen. Fred Funston's line and
thus release instantly 10000 regular
troops who are trained to the minute
and who are sorely needed to support
zen. Pershing across the border.
The entire mobile regular army of
The United States, several provisional
regiments of coast artillery, serving as
infantry, and the National Guard of
Texas, New Mexico ad Arizona are
low on the border or in Mexico. The
:'loneer Press estimates that General
funston has at his disposal about
10000 regulars and probably 5000 or
more Guardsmen. OF this number 10 900
egulars are with General Pershinq or
catered along his line of communica-
ION from Namiquipa, Mexico, to Col
INDUS, N. M.
Minnesota is expected to furnish
ONE $500 citizens soldiers. Of this
lumber, New Ulm can proudly say she
furnishing over hundred.
The promptness and willingness with
mich the men came to the colors was
uprising. In the absence of Captain
Iroebner, who was at Winona, LIST Lieut..
ldolph Nause was ranking officer. He