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Show FIFTH BRIGADE AT VERA CRUZ Brigadier General Funston Lands and Immediately Confer! Con-fer! With Admiral SECOND FLAG RAISING Start and Stripes Raised on Tower of Ancient Prison, San Juan de Ulua. Vera Cruz, April 28 The transports tran-sports bringing the Fifth army brigade brig-ade comprising the Fourth, Seventh, Nineteenth and Twenty-eighth infantry infan-try regiments under Brigadier General Gen-eral Frederick Funston were made fast at tho docks shortly before 10 o'clock this morning. Brigadier General Funston, accompanied accom-panied by Captain Harry M. P. Huse, chief of staff of Rear Admiral Fletcher. Immediately came ashore to confer with Rear Admiral Fletcher before calling on Rear Admiral Badger, Bad-ger, commander-in-chief of the Atlantic Atlan-tic fleet. Captain Huse had called on Brigadier Briga-dier General Funston earlier in the morning and had presented the compliments com-pliments of Rear Admiral Fletcher. The latter, he explained, desired to talk with the general regarding his plans. Brigadier General Funston was busily bus-ily occupied after breakfast In writing writ-ing dispatches, most of them to the war department. There was at least one of them, however, which had nothing to do with the array or the government It was a reply to a dispatch dis-patch he had received telling him of the birth yesterday of a daughter. While Caputn Huie was waltin to Bee General Funston, there took place a second official hoisting of the Stars and Stripes. The American flag for the first time since 1847 was raised over Iho tower of the fortress prison of San Juan de Ulua. Rear Admiral Fletcher and Brigadier Briga-dier Qeneral Funstoh when they met, went over in detail the situation In Vera Cruz. The arrival of the soldiers was not marked by any ceremony. The few Mexican laborers working about the docks looked on at the fresh force without displaying any interest In addition to the Infantrymen who arrived today, Company E of the engineer en-gineer corps, the Sixth cavalry regl ment, the Fourth field artillery and the Third field ambulance company are on their way here. Brigadier General Kunston called on Hear Admiral Badger later ana talked over with him his plaus for the landing of the troops. An agreement agree-ment was reached regarding tho positions posi-tions the soldiers were to occupy. The infantrymen will take charge of the positions along tho outer line as soon as they come ashore. The seamen are to be relieved, de tachment by detachment, and will re turn to their ships. The complete exchange between the soldiers and the marines will not be accomplished before tomorrow. The infantry regiments were ordered order-ed to land later in the day |