Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-22 | Page 1 | Utah Squadron Ordered Home from Border

UTAH SOUADRON ORDERED HOME Second Cavalry Included in 25,000 Guardsmen to Be Mustered Out of Federal Fed-eral Service. FIFTY THOUSAND TO REMAIN IN PATROL Movement of Militiamen in Nq Way Connected With Pershing's Reported Withdrawal. ! i WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. More than ' 25,000 national guardsmen now on the Mexican border have been designated by' Major General Funston for return home and muster out of the federal service. All these organizations will be started homeward as soon as transportation facilities fa-cilities can be provided. Their departure will leave between 45.000 and 50,000 men of the guard still in the federal service doing border patrol. War department officials continue to withhold comment on reports that the movement of General Pershing's regulars out of Mexico soon will be under way, and the statement announcing: the guardsmen guards-men designated for relief does not connect con-nect these orders with the withdrawal plans in any way. The understanding has been, however, that with .the return of the expedition in Mexico and readjustment readjust-ment of the border patrol all of the state troops gradually would b sent home. The department's statement said; "General Funston hafl selected these organizations or-ganizations chiefly in accordance with the rule of returning first those troops longest long-est In service on the border. To some j extent, however this rule could not be fol-l fol-l lowed without unequal weakening of the j border guard, and the departures from it , are so explained. The total strength of I the organizations selected is 25, 243. " J The guardsmen designated for return ; and muster out follow: ; Arkansas First infantry. Delawara Two battalions Infantry, i District of Columbia Battery B, field artillery. Illinois Brigade headquarters and Third infantry. Indiana Second infantry, ambulance company No. 2, brigade headquarters. Iowa First squadron cavalry, field hospital hos-pital No. 1 , ambulance company No. 1, brigade headquarters, Third infantry. Kentucky Second infantry. Louisiana First battalion field artillery, field hosiptal No. 1. Maryland Fifth infantry. Massachusetts Ambulance company No. 2, field hospital No. 2. Minnesota First infantry, First field artillery. Missouri Fourth infantry. Montana Troop A cavalry. Nebraska Field hospital No. 1, com pany A signal corps, ifth infantry. New Hampshire First infantry. New York Seventy-fourth Infantry, field battery, supply train, ambulance company No. 4. North Carolina First infantry. Ohio Fourth Infantry, fifth infantry. Third brigade headquarters. First squadron squad-ron cavalry. Oklahoma First infantry, troops A and B cavalry, field hospital company, company com-pany A engineers. ) Pennsylvania Second field artillery, company C engineers. Sixth infantry. Eighth infantry, Third brigade headquarters. head-quarters. South Carolina Troop A ravalrV, company com-pany A engineers, field hospital company. South Dakota Fourth in fan to. T'tah Second squadron cavalry. Tennessee Ambulance company No. 1, field hospital No. 1. Virginia Secqnd infantry; Wisconsin SeVmd infantry.