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Show HOSPITAL TRAIII TO BE SEHTTD BORDER Every .Modern Convenience Supplied for Soldiers Who Become Sick. By International News Service. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 16. General Gen-eral Funston has asked the war department depart-ment to ask for art emergency medical corps appropriation of $300,000 to cover any emergency work that may be necessary neces-sary to safeguard the health of the men in service on the border. The war department- has notified General Gen-eral Funston that a model hospital train of thirteen coaches will leave Washington Washing-ton July 21, arriving here July 23, It will be elaborately equipped for campaign cam-paign service. Immediately It will be used toi transport sick men from sub-base sub-base hospitals along- the border to the base hospital here. A smaller but similar simi-lar train will ply between the encampT ment towns in the Brownsville district and the sub-base hospital at Brownsville. Browns-ville. The train coming from Washington will accommodate 200 patients. It will be thoroughly equipped with cots, operating oper-ating rooms, dispensary and every modern mod-ern convenience, and will be accompanied accom-panied by medical corps specialists In wounds and disease. The Third Wisconsin infantry, with 1130 men, arrived today, completing the Wisconsin brigade at Fort Sam Houston. This regiment, the last , scheduled to locate here,' increases the number of soldiers sol-diers now here to more than 14,000. Two hundred and fifty of the new Lewis machine guns arrived at the arsenal arse-nal here today with 6,000,000 rounds of ammunition. These guns are to be carried car-ried on small automobile trucks instead of on mules. Robert Bacon, former secretary of state, and Richard P. Strong of Boston returned from Brownsville this morning and left for El Paso tonight. They refused re-fused to discuss conditions in the national na-tional guard camps. Mr. Bacon said the report sent out from New. York that he had been given a commission as second lieutenant In a New York regiment "waa totally unfounded. |