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Show Company D Mustered In Third: Battalion of the 12th ; U. S. Infantry. Five Companies of Utah Guardsmen j Selected for Army of Defense. War between the United States and a foreign power, designated as the "Reds," has been officially declared. de-clared. Many troops have gone into camp on the Toro arid are now awaiting await-ing further orders. The American armv, known as "he "Blues," and the duty of which will be to defend Sun Francisco, have gone in t'; camp at the Preeidio grounds, and the Big Army and National Na-tional Guard maneuvers that will consume eleven days are on. All the similitude of actual war will characterize the maneuvers, and 10,000 men will be engaged. ' Long before General Ho Tier Lea's notable book, "The Valor of Ignorance," ex posed the reading and thinking public pub-lic the strategic weaknesses of the Pacific coast in the event of evasion by a foreign power, the army was college was alive to the situation and was crappling forth the answer 'which must be made should any nation na-tion question our sovereignty by a hostile demonstration on our western border. It is partly the practical application applica-tion of their studies and partly a practical test of the efficiency of the national guard, to which the government govern-ment at Washington has given its fullest support during the last few years in line with its policy. all over the country, that is the occasion of these operations. Malitia men, not only in the west, but in the east, are keenly interested in the coming campaign, cam-paign, and many lessons are looked for in its results. The boys of Company D, together with four other companies of the National Guard of Utah, nameiy, Companies B, F, G, and H, also Company Com-pany A, of the Signal Corps and one battery of Utah Artillery, have been selected to join the Army of defence. : The Blue Army met with defeat ; at Monterey on Saturday night and made their retreat to Salinas, where they were reinforced by the guardsmen guards-men from Utah. The Utah forces are no longer considered as malitia-': malitia-': men, but are numbered in the Third Battalion of the Twelfth United i States Infantry in the regular army. , |