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Show CONCERTED TROOP MOVEMENT IS NOT ANTICIPATED, CLAIM Eh PASO, Texas, A up. 9. No orders anticipating :i concerted .movement of troops into Mexico . had been received hero tonight. Brigadier General James , B. Erwin, district commander, said. A ' detachment of fifty-two recruits, under i conunand of Captain M. B. Rush, left i here this afternoon for the Big- Bend dis- i trict, where they would bp assigned to ' tho first squadron of the Fifth cavalrv on duty there. Twenty army trucks will he driven overland front here tomorrow to Marfa. but theso movements, officers ; said, were contemplated before the border bor-der situation aro.se. General Krwin said he had In no way changed his orders for troops at summer camps in the Sacramento mountains, and that he had no plans, and had not had, for a tour of the camps. Two battalions of the Eighty-second field artillery are now at ' the Cloud-croft Cloud-croft camp, and no orders to hasten their return to the border have been issued. Casupls of the Ninth engineers will leave for Cloudcroft Thursday. |