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Show !; INDICT TEXAS OFFICERS. Scandal in National Guard Cause o( " Reduction of Allowance. f ' San Antonio, Texas. The war de-: de-: partment has advised the state adju - tant gtreral's office at Austin that the i government allowance to the Texas 5 National Guard for the ensuing year L. will be $9,000 instead of $100,000, it i was announced here Saturday. c A deduction of $91,000 from the 'i usual appropriation was made by the j. -department to cover the value of uni- forms and other equipment belonging to the state militia, which, it is charged,., were sold to Mexican revolutionists revo-lutionists after official statements had tbeen submitted that the equipment 'i'1 had been condemned aDd destroyed. Three officers of the Texas National si Guard recently were indicted here on 1 -charges of defrauding the government ra; in connection with the alleged sale of n the militia equipment, -oi Agents of the department of justice sc; say that $20,000 worth of uniforms oci was sold to Carranza troops, the Unit-0! Unit-0! d States army buttons being removed and sold to a St. Louis firm. |