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Show MEXICAN PH WILL BE REMOVED War Department Orders That Soldiers Now Confined, at EI Paso Be Transferred. WASHINGTON. April 27. Orders were issued by the war department today transferring the Mexican prisoners held at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, Tex., to Z'"ort Wlngatc, N. M. The department believed It necessary to move the prisoners further fur-ther from the Mexican border in view of possible developments. The Third squadron of the Twelfth cavalry, now at Fort Meade, South Da-kola, Da-kola, will bo-sent to Fort Wlngatc to guard tho prisoners. The Mexicans, soldiers and other refugees, refu-gees, have been held at Fort Bliss slnoe they fled across the border seeking refuge on American soil after tho battle of OJl-naga. OJl-naga. They will bo accompanied to Fort Wlngatc by the T wen Moth Infantry. EL PASO. Tex.. April 27. The Mexican federal prisoners now under un-der guard at Fort Bliss, near bore, are tho remnants of tho command of General Salvador Mercado, formerly governor of Ohlhuohua, .which fied across tho border Into Texas after the battle of OJlnaga, In which the constitutionalist forces under un-der General Villa were victorious. The federals were taken in charge by United Stater troops at Presidio today, across the line from OJlnaga, and marched overland over-land to Marfa. Tex,, when they were brought here by train. Thejast census of the federal camp showed 1000 porsons under guard, of which approximately .1300 arc women and children. Since tho taking of Vera Cruz by the United States forces two of the Mexican prisoners have been badly wounded by guards of the Twentieth United Stales Infantry as they attempted to escape. in addition to General Mercado tho prisoners include Generals Francisco Castro. Cas-tro. Bias, Orphlnal and Romero, General Jose Yncz Salazar also Is confined con-fined with them. Ho Is the federal general gen-eral under indictment in the United States on charges of violating the neutrality neutral-ity laws. He will be taken to Santa Fc for trial In May. Maximo Castillo, said to havo been chief of the bandits wlio set lire to the Cumbres tunnel on the Mexico Northwestern railroad, in which at least eleven Americans lost their lives, is also a prisoner at Fort Bliss. Colonel Robert R. Loughborough of tho Twentieth Infantry, who is In charge of Iho Mexican prisoners, has made no preparations as yet for the transfer. |