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Show 1 NOW READY TO SHIP FIREARMS New Orleans. Feb 3. Stores of ! arms and ammunition sufficient to equip a great nation for a campaign with a worthy foe are being made ready for shipment to Mexico from New Orleans and vicinity. Detailed figures of the supplies thus held here were made public tonight following the proclamation by President Wilson lift in k the embargo. There are stored in New Orleans land nearby towns more than 1". ""ij round.s of ammunition, appruu-i appruu-i mately H.ono modern arm rifles. four machine guns, 1000 or more army revolvers and cartridge bolts, saddles, blankets and holsters in enormous quantities. The ammunition for the machine guns alone is more than the four weapons could use up before the) became unfit for field use. and Lh machine guns never have been fired ih-' army rifles arc stored In New Orleans warehouses, as follows: Stauffer Bshelman Hardware com pany, 4300; A. Baldwin & Co., 6000 Kirke Fire-arms company, 2imim; United Unit-ed Fruit Wharf, L'OU; other ware houses, 1200. Of ammounifion. the Stauffer Bshelman Bsh-elman company for months has b( en holding 4, .".(in.iiim rounds, tlo- Haliui-j company .1.800.000 rounds and the i- irk. company 2,500,000 rounds, with numerous other largo Rtorei in this city. In Gulfport, Meridian and Vicks-burg, Vicks-burg, Miss.. Texarkana, Texas, and at Mobile. Ala. Some of these ship menta have been under surveillance of the United Stat.- authorities for as long as three years. Constitutionalist headquarters here has Issued a statement that ih- N, v. Orleans junta has complete equipment equip-ment for a nanny of 30.000 nifii In Chihuahua and neighboring states, it Is claimed. 40,oinl men wait only the equipment to go into the field. Many of these have had campaign cam-paign experience. Other lUeabli armies are n a state of seml-pre-paredness in various parts of the re public. |