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Show ENTIRE GUARD TO BE RELEASED FHffllCE War Department Issues Orders Or-ders to General Funston, to Demobilize All the State Troops. 50,000 REGULARS REMAIN ON BORDER No More Raids in Lower Rio Grande Country Expected; Ex-pected; Depredations in the West Probable. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Coincident Coinci-dent with the reopening of the American Ameri-can embassy in Mexico, the big army of national guardsmen that was concentrated concen-trated on the border on account of bandit ban-dit activities will be in process of dissolution. dis-solution. Orders were issued by the war department today directing General Gen-eral Funston to begin the immediate demobilization of all the guard units remaining in border camps, and it is expected that the last troop train will be on its way north by March 7. General Funston BtUl will have on the border nearly 50,000 troops, all of the regular army, disposed along the line from Brownsville to Yuma, Ariz., on plans worked out by the general staff. The command includes all of the troops who were in Mexico under General Gen-eral Pershing and their distribution was carried out tinder the direction of General Eben Swift, who was with the Pershing expedition. General Pershing will remain at El Paso, where he is commanding a division including the largest cavalry unit on the line. No New Policy. Secretary Baker emphasized that the withdrawal of the state troops is in no way connected with the crisis with Germany, Ger-many, but carries out a policy determined deter-mined on long ago by the administration. administra-tion. The order was issued after General Gen-eral Funston had reported that, with the new disposition of regulars, he felt that he had enough men to meet any exigencies that might arise. Manv guard units already have been ordered home during the past few weeks and the number of guardsmen remaining to be demobilized under today's order is about 53,000. Administration officials place entire confidence in General Funston 's opinion that the force of regulars will be sufficient. suf-ficient. They are understood to have been convinced by the reports of special spe-cial observers for the state department and the army that, while it mav be possible for Villa and Zapata followers to commit minor depredations in the sparsely settled region west of El Paso, there is little possibility- of a recurrence of raids in the lower fvio Grande country. coun-try. Will Remove Friction. It also is desired that the Cnrranza government be embarrassed as little as possible in its efforts to control Mexico and the maintenance of a large army at the border has been a constant cause of complaint from Mexicans. The reduction re-duction is expected by officials here to have a beneficial effect on relations between the two countries, especially just now, when diplomatic intercourse is being resumed. Ambassador Fletcher took with him to Mexico a mass of memoranda on subjects sub-jects that tho I'nited States has instructed in-structed him to tal e up with the Mexican Mexi-can government. It is expected he will call at the Mexican foreign office Monday Mon-day to present his credentials. A memorandum memo-randum on the killing of thee Americans Ameri-cans south of Hachita, N. M.. is being prepared here and will be forwarded to him early next week, with instructions that' he make representations to the de facto government. Guardsmen Rejoice. V.Tj PAPO, Feb, 17. General rejoirinp on'-urred in all of the national guard camps on tills part of the border toiiU-ht when the win" ci par t TnGn t orf"?- for Jill militia-troops to return home b-.'t'me generally gen-erally known. Parades were hel.) through compnn y streets, nio'-k bands organized, 'iih dish puns, trumpets ainj drums for instruments, and the fommandinr,' officers were s--rennIed. At miliiary hr-a'iqiiarters it tvrf paid no oft't'-ial orders had heen received from d-partniPnt d-partniPnt headquarters Erivins? the date for the departure of The various uitp hef" Approximately J o.O'.n re-iik-.r troor-s Will he left on the horder here, it was 'said |