The Pulaskian., 1916-06-23

are 15 full brigades from other states In all, 88 regiments of infantry, with 13 separate battalions and many sep arate companies are affected, giving a total of HAS companies, each of which must have a minimum strength of 65 men when mustered into the federal service. The total enlisted force of infantry, therefore, will be not less than 85,000 men.
 Equipment Ample.
 Less than 500 companies, scattered throughout the country, will not be mustered, and the National Guard Coast Artillery companies have not been summoned All of the field ar tillery, cavalry, engineer and signal troops will be employed, as will many of the militia field hospitals and ann bulance companies. The War De- partmenl has on hand ample equip- ment and clothing to outfit and main tain this force.
 The call applies to 79 batteries of field artillery, 99 troops of cavalry and one New York cavalry machine gun troop, 25 engineer companies and 29 signal companies, all with full equipment already issued to them. Twenty-six ambulance companies and 27 field hospitals also have been or dered made ready for entraining.
 No indication was given at the State Department with regard to the reply to General Carranza's s note de- manding the withdrawal of the American troops now in Mexico It was prepared last week by Secretary Lansing, and is still in President Wilson's hands. It was intended to dispatch it to Mexico City by special messenger, but recent developments may change this plan.
 Hear From Carranza.
 Official reports that recent raids along the border had created alarm among American residents in Mexico City and elsewhere beyond the border were reflected in message received at the Mexican embassy from General
 
 ment prevailed at the Mexican eapi- tai over the ominous signs along the border, and asked EliscO Arredondo, ambassador designate, to tell the first chief what he had learned of the in tentions of the Washington govern ment toward Mexico. Replying, Ar redondo included copy of Secretary Bakers statement announcing the call for the militia.
 Mexican Situation Worse.
 When the officials here learned of the message to the embassy, it was construed as further evidence that the de facto government is struggling with clements in Mexico with which it has little control For months the economic situation which Carranza has been attempting to solve without foreign financial aid has been grow ing steadily worse. Uneasiness has been manifested in many parts of the republic ,and agitators, whose pur- poses and affiliations are not clearly known here, have seized the opportu- nifty to stir the smoldering anti-Amer- ican feeling all through northern Mexico. The Washington govern ment has watched with growing alarm the spread of disorders throughout Mexico and the evidence that Carran- za's control over his army and his people is waning from day to day. IT,, +o +[,o two ConoraI rTll,a1,i,o corx, ed notice on General Pershing last week that any movement of his troops except toward the border would be treated as hostile act, there was no clear indication as to Carranza's own attitude. His inten- tions still are in doubt, although the fact that he is said to have personally directed Trevino's action leaves little ground for speculation on that score.
 Policy Unchanged.
 The question remaining to be set tied is whether General Carranza will go to the limit of ordering an attack on General Pershing's troops. There is no iSdication that President Wilson udS duy luL6utlOu Ol altering HIS Q6- termination to keep the expedition where it is. 1t is also evident, how ever, that the administration has no present purpose of ordering renewed activities after bandits by the column except in the limited zone in which ii has been operating with signal sue cess for some weeks. General Per shing's recent reports have indicated that he has succeeded in clearing out all organized bands of outlaws in the vicinity of his camps.
 A Game of Bluff
 Some officials here have been in clined to look upon the Carranza note and many of his other more or less hostile actions as attempts to placate the radical anti-American elements ir Mexico, without actually bringing or hositilities with the United States They declare the Mexican government has gone to the limit each time, but always fallen just short of the wor,