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Show PERSUING TRAINING SOLDffilN FIELD Supplies Also Being Piled Up at the Bases in Case of an Emergency. COLX'MBI'S, N. M., July 7. General J. J. Perching, commanding the American Ameri-can expeditionary force in Mexico, is i contir.uinfr to pile up supplies at his field .bases. Several motor truck trains carrying thonaa nd of pounds of supplies sup-plies and munitions left Columbus today for tiie field. Reports from the field todav indicated that the daily drilling of the. expeditionary expedi-tionary soldiers continues and that the command, now drawn into a compact line, is being prepa red for an act i vc campaign should the necessity develop. Responding to an appeal of a delegation delega-tion of Xew Mexicans headed by A. H. Fall, United States senator, "General George Bell, Jr., commanding the El Paso military dist rid, mi nourieed to-I to-I night he contemplated ordering three companies of infantry to guard the irrigation irri-gation tystem of the Las ('ruces valley. One company will be stationed at Carnitine, Carni-tine, he said, one at Las Cruce.s, and one at Port Seldcn. The bod' of Lieutenant Henry Adair, who tell at Carri.al, will be shipper! tomorrow to-morrow to Portland, Ore., his former home. Captain Boyd's body was sent today to the Arlington National cemetery ceme-tery for burial. No orders have bem re-reived re-reived for the disposal of tiie bodies of the srvn negro troupers. |