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Show TROOPS REGALLED I : FROMJRft C I ; AMERICAN SOLDIERS AND u. B RINES WILL SAIL HOMC Up " ARRIVAL OF TRANSPORTS H Hj i Action Is Taken In View of the Ent! H Removal of the Circumstance! H .' Which Were Thought to H Justify Occupation. H HJ t Washington. Evacuation of v B Cruz was ordorcd Tuesday by pJ H dent Wilson. American s ildlers m H ! marines under General Funston H ' havo held Mexico's principal seaport B slnco It was seized by the tleet April HI 21 last, will embark for he mo as toon B S aa transports can go after them, a-i H ' shortly afterward all of the ar'flt H except a few light draft vessels m H bu withdrawn. HJ l Tho order for evacuation was for. H ' mnlly announced nt tho White House H Tuesday aftor a long cabinet meetlnj H It is tho concluding chapter of tb B ' second armed conflict between th H ' United States nnd Mexico, In which i H scoro of Americans lost their lives H nearly a hundred were wounded ani M ' upwards of three hundred Mexlcim H ' were killed or wounded. B Tho reasons for tho step were t H forth In tho following statement from H ' the Whlto House: ! "Tho troops havo been ordered B withdrawn from Vera Cruz. This ac- H tion Is taken In view of the entire re- H moval of tho circumstances wh;ct H I were thought to Justify thu occupation. H Tho further presence, of the troops n H deemed unnecessary." B . Specifically the American forces H t wero withdrawn nt tho urgent appeal H J of General Carranza, first chief of tue BB constitutionalist army, who Is la BE '. charge, of tho oxccutlvo power In Met. H Ico City. Through Paul Fuller, per- B sonal representative of President Wit- BB son In Mexico, General Carranza set H forth that the presence of American H troops Instead of being a safeguard BB against further revolution and peace H with tho United States constituted a BB constaut menace to friendly relation!. H The Mexican chief contended and he BB was supported by Generals Villa a&l BB Obregon that tho Mexican peopl BB would not understand tho continue! BB presence) of American troops on Mi- BB lean soil and would bo bound to chei- BB ish resentment no matter how well- H intenttoned tho American government was or how acquiescent the Mexla BB City administration itself might be. BB ' Preparations wero begun Tueadaj ! for turning tho custom houso at Vera BB Cruz and tho municipal governmesl over to tho Mexicans again. BB Tho troops at Vera Cruz under Gen- Hj eral Funston, including 7,200 soldiers and marines, nro expected to begin Hj their departure In about two weeM- Orders wero Bent Tucaday to trai Hj ports now at Newport News and Gai- H veston to proceed to Vera Cruz to talw Hj tho forces on board. Tho transports include the Sumner nnd Kllpatrlct nnd the chartered bonta City of Den- ver and Cristobnl. Routs for carry lng horses and freight are now at H Galveston. H Tho marines on duty at Vera Cmi will bo sent back to tho warships and stations from which they were taken- nnd tho troopH will bo sent to Tciai City, whero tho Second urmy dlvisloa Bj is stationed. Hj Formal orders for tho withdrawal ol tho ships In Mexican waters will not H bo Issued for savurul days. Th Bhips Include the bnttleshlps Vlrglm, B North Dakota, Arkansas, Delaware, H ( Kansas, Vermont and Now York and Hj i tho cruisers Des Moines and Sa'1 ' uml tho Putuxcut, Solnce, Vestal an H Ozark. HJ |