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WASHINGTON, Sept, 2.-The war department set in motion today ma chinery to apply irresistible force to disorderly elements in the five min ing counties of West Virginia where labor disorders have smouldered in- to what officials term insurection. By train from four army camps, an ex- peditionary force numbering 2,10O men was routed for destinations on the edge of the mountain country. Brigadier General H. H. Bandholtz, the governments agent on the scene has been designated in command.
 Behind this force Secretary Weeks said were as reserves another 2,OOO men and bombing airplanes which already have arrived in the distur- bed area. President Harding's proc lamation formally putting Fayett. Mingo, Kanawah and Boone counties under martial law is in the hands of General Brandholtz and will be issued at the discretion of Secretary Weeks. The governments action in sending troops into West Virginia, Secre- tary Weeks sad today evidently had the approval of mine union officials as well as the civil authorities of West Virginia, who had asked for them. He referred to General Brand holtz' report that Phillip Murray, in- ternational vice-president of the United Mine Workers had joined in urging recommendation for troops.
 When railroads are closed up. and armed bands of men distribute them selves in the country. marching to and from overpowering resistance" !" the secretary said. you may call it what you please. We call it insurec- tion.'
 The Nineteenth Infantry from camp Sherman and Columbus, Ohio, and the Twenty-sixth from camp Dix. N. T.. which were first to move are provided with machine guns. Howwitzers. radio and headquarters machinery, one pounders. specialties in gas warfare. as well as rifles. riot guns, automatic revolvers and rifles. The enlisted strength of the two or ganizations. according to the latest report is, 2,100 exclusive of the per sonnel of tfe eighty eighth light bombing squadron. estimated at 15o men The Nineteenth Infantry was brought to field strength by replace ments from the Tenth Infantry at camp Sherman and Columbus, Ohio, the Fortieth Infantry at camp Knox. Kentucky and two companies from Fort Thomas, Kentucky.
 Officers of the war department ia miliar with martial law precedents and the policy of the administration, said the extent and duration of its existence ia West Virginia, if declar- ed, would depend largely upon dis- l cretion of General Bandholtz.
 Its primary object. it was explained was the quelling of disturbances sld | the reinstatement of proper and con- stituted civil authority in the distur- bed area.
 Consequently it Is expected that | military forces will cooperate with | state and local police that no military | courts will be set up for trial and ! punishment of captured disturbers | of the peace and that local business and industry will be" encouraged to 1 continue. Exception to this general ! policy, it was said, would only be oc- cassioned by prolonged and viruleni | disorders, which could be stamped
 out only by military operations. Ii
 this should happen it might be nee
 essary to remove even peaceable resi-
 dents from territory where trooI | movements and encounters witf
 armed forces were probable.
 Even should prisoners be taken fl | large numbers by the military organ ! izations, it was said, they probabl'
 would only be detained until the civi
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