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Show ARTILLERY SENT TO reiCANBORDER SUFFICIENT TROOPS TO BE SENT TO NACO, ARIZONA, TO HANDLE EMERGENCIES. Warning Issued to Mexican Faction! Fighting Near Border That Firing on American Territory Must be Discontinued. Washington. President Wilson after a brief discussion with his cabl net on Tuesday, directed Secretarj Garrison to order sufficient troops tc Naco, Ariz., to handle any emergen cies that might arise there in con nection with the firing across the American border from Mexican terri tory. Secretary Garrison later announcer that he had ordered Brigadier Gen eral Tasker H. Bliss to start for Nacc with three batteries of field artillery and "await further orders." It has become known that this ac tion followed the exchange of tele grams between the federal government and Governor Hunt of Arizona, in which the latter described the firing from the Mexican factions across the line as a serious menace to resident? of Arizona. It is understood that when the tele grams from Governor Hunt were laid I before the cabinet, the president alsc directed Secretary Bryan to transmit a warning through American consuls to both Mexican factions fighting neai the boundary that firing into American Ameri-can territory must be discontinued. While the outcome of such negotiations negotia-tions as will be conducted through the state department is awaited, the artillery and cavalry of the American army will stand guard ready to carry out any orders which may develop from the conferences with the Mexi can chiefs. The forces of General Benjamin Hill, loyal to Carranza, are ranged close to the line, while those of Governor Gov-ernor Maytorena, supposed to be a follower of General Villa, but often reported as independent of his authority, author-ity, constitute the attacking force. Repeated warnings have been given to the two generals to so conduct their operations as to prevent bullets from falling on American territory. |