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Show BH1PPING TROOPS AND AHMS City op Mexico is'oy. 18. The national na-tional arms factory here is turning out cuririuges as fast aa possible. The greatest bu3ile ia noticeable in the war department. This is giving rise to many rumors. It is rumort-d that As sialant Secretary of War Escudero ia going to Vera Cruz within a few days ' to sea;about better transportation of troops to the Guatemalan f:ontier. The Nineteenth infantry has em-balked em-balked on gunboats at Vera Cruz to go to Tobasco. Two hundred and fifty thousand cartridges have been shipped south within the last lew weesa. The Fourth infantry ia expected here in a few days to go to Tobasco also. The steamer 'Jandrow" at Mazatlan ia now ready to take oi her new armament, arma-ment, and it s reported that she will immediately get roauy to take 1000 soldiers sol-diers to the Guatemalan frontier from Acapuko. |