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Show PRESIDENT GALLS OUT STATE MILITIA HUNDRED THOUSAND NATIONAL GUARDSMEN MAY BE SENT TC MEXICAN BORDER. Militiamen Will Be Used for Border Guard Duty in Order That More Regulars May be Sent Into Mexico if Necessary. Washington. Virtually the entire mobile strength of the national guard of all states and the District of Columbia Co-lumbia was ordered mustered into the federal service on Sunday night by President Wilson. About 100,000 men are expected to respond to the call. They will be mobilized immediately for such service on the Mexican border bor-der as may later be assigned to them. Frederick Funston, commanding the border forces, will designate the time and place for movement of guardsmen to the international line, as the occasion occa-sion shall require. In announcing the orders, Secretary Baker said the state forces would be employed only to guard the border and that no additional troop movements into Mexico were contemplated, except ex-cept in pursuit of raiders. Simultaneously with the national guard call, Secretary Daniels of the navy department ordered additional warships to Mexican waters on both coasts to safeguard American lives. At the war, navy and state departments depart-ments it was stated that no new advices ad-vices as to the situation in Mexico had come to precipitate the new orders. Within the last two weeks, however, tension has been increasing steadily. The crisis presented by General Car: ran's note demanding the recall of General Pershing's expeditionary force has been followed by a virtual ultimatum ultima-tum served on the American officer by General Trevino, Mexican commander in Chihuahua: To this was added the possibility that American and Mexican Mexi-can troops had clashed across the border bor-der from San Benito, Texas. Administration officials made no attempt at-tempt to conceal their relief over the safe return of Major Anderson's cavalry cav-alry squadron to the American side ot the border. The troopers crossed in pursuit of bandits in the face of intimations that they would be attacked if they did so. General Funston himself reported that he anticipated fighting, presumably with Carranza troops. Mobilization of the national guardsmen guards-men to support General Fupston's line will pave the way for releasing some 30,000 regulars for immediate service in Mexico in the event of open hostilities hostili-ties with the Carranza government. The guardsmen themselres could not be used beyond the line without authority au-thority of congress and until they had volunteered for that duty, as they are called out under the old militia law. The new law, which would make them available for any duty under the federal fed-eral government, goes into effect July 1. |