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Show ISSUE ORDER FOR MEN ON BORDER War Department Proposes to Have 60,000 Sollders Ready to Guard The Frontier or March Into Mexico Wnshlngton Feb. 10 Tho war department de-partment today Issued orders to Increase In-crease tho force held for guard duty on the frontier or for Intervention In Mexico from 34,000 men to &0.000 men. By this order tho coast defenao artillery ar-tillery troops, who arc not a part of tho movable nrmy, arc required to report re-port on momentary notice equipped at Infantry. It Is estimated that on emergency em-ergency 15,000 of tho troops can be added to tho 114,000 Infantry, cavalry and light nrtlllery embraced In tho original order. Thu war department today regarded regard-ed as serious telegrams which were received from Brownsvlllo and Laredo Lare-do Indicating that tho pcopln close to tho border tiro living In dally fear that raiding parties will cross tho bord er and trrorlzo tho nearby towns This fear has lately bcecn strengthened by tho Incursion of the party of thirteen Mexicans who were arrested yesterday yester-day on American soil. The war department lias announced that arrests will bo promptly made af persons coming into this country who nro suspected of Intending to recruit, to play tbo bandit or to establish Juntas In nny of tho Amorlcan towns. No Relaxation While news today nt tho state department de-partment was rather pacific, the war department's dispatches Indicated that there must bo no relaxation of tho preparations pre-parations for guarding tho frontier along its entire length. Tho difference In tho news to the two departments proved that the prcsl dent and the war department wero acting on advices which havo come from private but rcllablo resources. It Is understood that tbo visit of John Hays Hammond to Mexico bad great deal to do with tho sudden activity of tho war department and tho White house. Mr. Hammond has a. largo mining min-ing and railroad interest In Mexico, and It happened that his trip, which ended only yesterday, covered the parts of north Mexico which aro suspected sus-pected to bo strongly against tbo Ma-dero Ma-dero government. There Is excellent reason to believe that John Mays Hammond has kept tbo president personally advised of conditions on northern Mexico, whero ho has been, and that these confirm absolutely the dispatches sent ten days ago to tho state department bv KiubaBsadora Wilson from the city of Mexico. Intervention Talk A great deal of Intervention talk Is Indulged in at the war department, where the officers are not as reserved as the diplomats at the stato department. depart-ment. There was discussion nil day among the staff officers as to what moment tho whole IiO.000 would bo ordered to move to tho south.-At the state department It was admitted conditions might so develop as to Justify tho movement of such n largo number or troops, but the department expressed tho opinion that tho wholo number to bo moved within tbo next forty-eight hours would not bo moro than from 3000 to 4000. Both tho stato department and ;he war department reassert todny that the only Justification for Intervention in Mexico would be tho proof to these departments that tho Madero government govern-ment was not able to preservo tho lives and property of Amerlcnn citizens citi-zens In Mexico. Tho state department Is non-committal as to when tho time will bo, while tho war department Is keenly expecting orders to move nt any moment. |