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Show TO PICK UP' " Army Transport Buford ' to Go to West Coast of Mexico. Washington, April 26. The army transport Buford will leave San Francisco Fran-cisco Sunday for tho west coast of Mexico to pick up any American refugees refu-gees who may wish to leave tho country. coun-try. Tho Buford will visit Topolo-bampo, Topolo-bampo, Altata, Mazatlan, in tho state of Sinaloa; San Bias, Teplc, Manza-nillo Manza-nillo In Collma and Acapulco in Guerrero, Guer-rero, Tho vessel is sent at the request of the state department after urgent requests re-quests from many Americans strandod in the states bordorlng tho Paclllc. nu uuuDjiun uiuuR iiiBt nub selected se-lected for tho relief expedition, but officials later doclded that vessel had insufficient accommodations for Americans who might wish to leave Mexico. Tho Buford, therefore, was designated. While the Buford is a government vessel, stress Is laid on the fact that there will be'no soldiers aboard and the. only persons bearing United States commissions y111 bo the doctors and some members of the hospital corps. State department advices indicate there are perhaps seven hundred Americans likely to avail themselves of this opportunity to leave Mexico. About 200 are at Los Mochls and vicinity vi-cinity and probably 300 more scattered scat-tered down the coast as far a3 Sallna Cruz. |