Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-03-11 | Page 1 | Infantry to be Sent to Border

INFANTRY TO BE SENT TOBORDER Ordered to Be in Readiness to Proceed to Laredo and Eagle Pass. PRESIDENT APPROVES Additional Troops Sent to Allay Al-lay Fears of People and to Preserve Neutrality. Washington, D. C., March 11. The Ninth infantry now at Fort Thomas, Ivy., and Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas, Ar-kansas, and the Seventh infantry at Fort McPherson, Georgia, have been ordered to bo in readiness to proceed to Laredo and Eagle Pass to strengthen strength-en the Mexican border patrol. The orders were prepared late today to-day for the approval of President Wilson. The explanation of the move was that it was desirable to strengthen strength-en the border patrol to prevent any embarrassments such as might arise out of raids into Mexican territory. Two battalions of the Ninth are at Fort Thomas, Kentucky, near Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, and another is at Fort Logan H. Roots, All the Seventeenth under orders or-ders to prepare to move is at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta. President Wilson approved the orders or-ders within half an hour after they were prepared and explained at the White House that the plan to strengthen streng-then the border patrol had been adopted adopt-ed at the suggestion of Representative Representa-tive Garner of Texas, who told the president and Secretary GarrlBon that the people on the border had become very uneasy as a result of the Vor-gara Vor-gara incident and that in addition to preserving the neutrality laws', the presence of the troops would do much to restore confidence on the border. Secretary Garrison issued this statement; state-ment; "To allay as far as possible the fears of the people on the border, the president took up with mo the question ques-tion of sending some additional troops there. As a result I have ordered that the Seventeenth infantry and the Ninth infantry be seut there. . The Seventeenth Infantry is now nl Fort McPherson, Georgia, and the Ninth infantry is now at Fort Logan II. Roots, Arkansas, and Fort Thomas, Kentucky. They will be stationed at present nt Eagle Pass and at Laredo, and the cavalry now at those places will be relieved for more extended border work." ( -