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Show STATE GUARDSMEN MLLEDMRDffl MILITIA OF TEXAS, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO TO AID IN PATROL DUTY. Eleven Thousand Additional Troops Ordered to the Border to Assist in Protecting Americans and Searching for Villa. Washington. State militiamen from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas are to assist the soldiers of the regular army In border guard duty. President Wilson on Tuesday ordered or-dered 1,000 coast artillery from Atlantic Atlan-tic stations and five batteries of field artillery from Fort Sill, Okla., to the Mexican border. These forces will reinforce the 7,000 infantry and militia ordered to the border bor-der earlier in the day. With the 3,000 recruits recently sent to border points, this will give General Funston 11,000 additional troops to reinforce his border bor-der patrol or to reinforce the 12,000 men in General Pershing's expeditionary expedition-ary army. With 8,000 additional troops under orders for the Mexican border, including includ-ing -1,000 national guardsmen from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, administration ad-ministration officials felt that neces-tary neces-tary steps had been taken to prevent further raiding of American border towns by bandits. In addition to the five batteries of field artillery ordered from Fort Sill, a battery of the Third field artillery, stationed sta-tioned at Fort Myer, but now at the Tobyhanna, Pa., camp, was ordered to hold itself In readiness to go to the border. The Second cavalry is the only regiment regi-ment of mobile trops not included in the recent orders to the border. It is understood the one squadron of this regiment at Fort Myer and two squadrons squad-rons at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, will be the next ordered to the border. The total coast artillery strength of the army is 175 commissioned officers and 19,321 enlisted men. About 4,000 of these are stationed in 7"" the Philippines, Guam, Hawaii and the canal zone. The total number at posts on the Pacific, Atlantic and gulf coasts is about 15,000 men. |