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Show 1W OFFICIALS ST EL PASO TEST TRUCKS With Thousands of Guardsmen Guards-men Arriving, Preparations Prepara-tions forTrouble Made. j EL PASO, Tex., July 1. Mobiliza- j tion of a large part of the national j guard organizations ordered to El Paso I was expected tonight to be completed J before daylight. Several trains carrying carry-ing the first contingents of the Massachusetts Massa-chusetts militia arrived today, while railway officials asserted that a number num-ber of trains carrying guardsmen from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey are expected within the next twenty-four hours. At military headquarters no information informa-tion concerning the impending arrival of the state soldiers was available. Coincident with the arrival of the j first, of the guard organizations, the ! Massachusetts hospital and ambulance corps, what appeared to be a redistribution redistribu-tion of the troops in this border patrol dislrict was begun. Two troops of the Eighth cavalry were dispatched from Fort Bliss to Fort Hancock, Tex., fifty-threo fifty-threo miles east of El Paso, presumably to reinforce the garrison there. Jt was reported, however, that thev al-o are to hunt Mexican rustlers said to have crossed the border to a Texas ranch last night and to have stolen a few head of stock. With little brown tent cities springing spring-ing up for the national guardsmen on several camp ites in YA Paso, military o flic j ;ils at Fort Bliss were testing armored motor trucks. These machine?, equipped with machine guns, made several sev-eral charges across the parade grounds under condiDon?; arranged to represent ay nearly as possible actual warfare. Officers in cha rge of tile experiments , reported they were satisfied with the re- I suits obtained. Andres Tiarcia. Mexican consul to El Paso, received authorization todav from Alvaro fdiregon, Mexi'-an mini '-ter of war, to assist ho Amerkan military ' authorities in removing the bodies of 1 the United States soldi'-rs killed at Car-n7.al Car-n7.al to the United States for burial, i |