The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-02
Troops E nroute to Charleston Gen. Band ho1z Will Take Over
 Command

Washington, Sept. 2.-Fed- eral troops were today ordered into West Virginia, to disperse the armed bands of miners who are threatening an invasion of the Mingo county coal regions there.@
 Major General Harbord, chief of staff, announced that he has ordered the 109th Infantry from Camp Sher- man, Ohio, and the Eth Infantry from Camp Dix, New Jersey, to proceed immediately to West Virginia, in re- sponse to a request from Gen. Band hottz, representative of the President in West Virginia. Gen. Harbord stat ed that he had taken the action with out awaiting the proclamation of martial law, and at an early hour to- the President had issued the martial aaw proclamation. The troops prob ably entrained about o'clock this morning, General Harbord said.
 At 9:2O, it was announced at the office of Secretary Weeks that a de- cision on the proclamation of mar
 ia1 law is now pending the receipt Bandho oltz.
 The troops now route are under orders to proceed to Charleston, where their commanding officers will report to General Bandholtz, who will ta ke over the command and dispose of the forces as he sees fit. General Bandholtz is under no restrictive or ders and is called upon to handle the situation as a tactical one using what ever military methods he may deem best.
 Having served as Provost Marshal General of the Philippines and hay | ing acted in the same capacity with the A. E. F., General Bandholtz is well fitted to cope with just such situ- 1 ations as now confront him in West | Virginia.
 General Harbord estimates that | the troops from Camp Sherman | should be the first to arrive on the scene, and should report to General | Bandholtz, six hours after entraining. The telegram under which the or
 der was issued for troops was receiv- ed from General Bandho1tz, about 3
 a. m. It read in part:
 i Investigators returned about 11:30 l tonight. The invadeI~ have not obey
 ed the Presidents proclamation and | there is no apparent intention to do
 so. It is therefore, recommended i that the troops now in readiness. be | sent to West Virginia without delay" | The telegram which was not long | was devoted to directions to where | the troops should be sent. The route l of the troops is not divulged by the 1 War Department, through fear that
 railroad lines might be dynamited. l Indiana polls, Sept 2-The Fort1eth
 Infantry at Camp Knox, Kentucky, and the Nineteenth infantry at Camp 1 Sherman, have been ordered to en- | train immediately for the West Vir- ginia trouble zone" it was learned l today by the International News Ser
 vice at Fort Benjamin Harrison, | headquarters of the 5th army corps. l No mention of Camp Knox troops had
 been mentioned in despatches from
 Washington.
 Whether Major General Read, com 1 mander of the 5th army corps area,
 acted upon his own initiative in dis
 patching troops from the Kentucky | post. officers at Fort Harrison were l unable to say"
 Previously however, it had been
 stated that General Read had in
 structed two regiments to entrain up- | on orders from the War. Dept. l Camp Dix troops also are being
 sent, is outside the jurisdiction of the | 5th army corps area.
 | Camp Dix, N. J.. Sept. 2|The first | of three trains bearing the 18th In | fantry regiment to the trouble zone | in West Virginia left here at 10 a. rn- | today and the other two trains were
 to follow at half hour intervals | Equtpping of the 18th Infantry for
 the field, which was ordered yester-
 day was completed at midnight. Pass
 enger and freight cars for the 18th were expected to be delivered this | morning., no order has as yet been | received for the 18th to go to West
 Virginia The 18th Infantry was or
 dered to report to Brig. Gen. Band | holtz at Charleston, W. Va