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Show ARMY SHIPS GO 10 AI0 QFREFUGEES TRANSPORTS TO BE SENT TO VERA CRUZ TO BRING BACK AMERICANS AND FOREIGNERS. Effort Will be Made to Bring For-eingers For-eingers Across the Border Before -the Expected Storm Breaks 1 in Mexico. Washington. The army transports Buford and Kilpatrick, now at Galveston, Gal-veston, will be sent to Vera Cruz to bring back American and other foreign for-eign refugees reaching that port from Mexico City on the trains now heing arranged. Plans to send the ships were laid at the war department on Saturday. Under British auspices efforts will be made to take parties of foreigners by horseback and automobile from Mexico City to Pachuca, from which place there is railroad communication communica-tion with Vera Cruz. The American Red Cross will dispatch dis-patch a shipments of medical supplies to the American, Spanish and French hospitals in Mexico City via Vera Cruz and sen dtwo more carloads of relief supplies to Monterey. Arnold Shanklin, consul general at Mexico City, now awaiting orders at Vera Cruz, probably will take command com-mand of the American refugee situation situa-tion at the capital and supervision of its distribution of relief supplies. It is doubtful if S. P. Morris, acting national na-tional director of the Red Cross, will go to Mexico City, as he had previously previ-ously planned. |