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Show HOU CAVALHT TO BB BBMT TO THB BOKDEB WASHINGTON, March II. The present pres-ent patrol of the Mexican frontier will be Increased In a few daya by several troope of cavalry from the mounted forces now being assembled In the enuth-ern enuth-ern border statea. It Is announced at tha war department that the Increase will amount ta eta or seven troops of cavalry cav-alry to be added to tba patrol of tha KM Orande. t la making thla announcement offlctele emphatically any none of the .Infantry regiments now mobilising at San Antonio, An-tonio, Galveston and Ban Diego will be dispatched to the border. ' The Increase will no made st the re quest of Brigadier General Duncan, commander com-mander of the department ef Texas. Previous Pre-vious m the receipt of thla requeet the department had not attended to augment the southern patrol. There are already Btretraed along the frontier three regl-menta regl-menta of cavalry, one regiment of Infantry and two eompantee of the signal corps. Because of the great extent of the loun-dair loun-dair lines, more than 1100 ml lee, the patrol pa-trol la a mammoth task. Constant reports re-ports ara reaching Waahlngton of the erauggllng of arms and ammunition, and It la the Intention of the Ansarlcaji government gov-ernment to stop this practice. The part of the boundary In tha southwest south-west which la marked by aa arbitrary Una le regarded aa adequately patrolled. |