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Show STMT SOUTH Thirty-five Thousand Troops Under Orders to Leave Today To-day Connecticut Has $15,000 Ready. New York, June 27. Nearly 35,000 national guard troops from twelve states In the department of the east aro under orders to start today for the Mexican border or already on the way. Two Massachusetts regiments and two batteries of field artillery from New Jersey started last night Indications are that about 20,000 troops from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, -Massachusetts and Vermont Ver-mont will get away beforo tonight. In addition troops from Maine, Now Hampshire, Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Virginia and Florida totaling about 15,000 men had rt:i;uiYt:u uiuura iium iuitjur uuuerai Leonard Wood to leave today for the border. It was not known at headquarters head-quarters of tho department heje whether the men actually could be entrained en-trained before night iSlx thousand national guard troops of New York, comprising the Seventh, Seventy-first, Fourteenth and Forty-seventh Forty-seventh regiments of Infantry, a battalion batta-lion of engineers together with auxiliary auxil-iary signal corps, field hospital and field ambulance commands are ready to leave as soon as transportation Is provided. All are ordered to Brownsville, Browns-ville, Texas. Connecticut had her 15,-000 15,-000 troops ready to start at an early hour and Vermont was ready to start with her 1500 troops. Virginia had one Infantry regiment j T 1 1 J IWH '' - ,- 1, r - ready to start and expected to send other units later. The Massachusett and New Jersey regiments are bourn for El Paso The Vermont guardsmen are ordered to Eagle Pass, Texas, those of Connecticut to Nogales, Ariz. Massachusetts Guards Start. Framingham, Mass., June 27. Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts before noon today had started toward the Mexican border four regiments of Infantry, a hospital company and an ambulancej corps. Mustering In Activities. Chicago, June 27. Mustering in activities in the central department of the United States army were confined con-fined today to the infantry and cavalry caval-ry in an endeavor to make these troops available for service at the earliest moment. No orders for tho movement of troops have been issued and it was announced at the office of Major General Barry that mustering in would be completed' at tho state mobilization camps beforo orders for entralnment are given. Tho mustering-ln of Kansas organi-vzations organi-vzations is practically completed. Illinois Illi-nois reported the mustering-in of one regiment of Infantry and ono battery of artillery. Mustering-ln is progressing progress-ing at the Iowa camp. North Dakota lino nna nonrlmAnf s-tP nni .T- ilized. Typhoid Innoculatlon Begins. Dener, Colo., June 27. Mustering Into federal service, medical examination examina-tion and distribution of equipment proceeded rapidly at the Colorado National Na-tional Guard camp today. A second company was mustered in today. Typhoid inoculation also was begun. be-gun. Oregonlans to Go Into Action San Francisco, Juno 27. Oregon national na-tional guardsmen will be the first state troops of the western department to see service on tho Mexican border The third battalion of tho third infantry infan-try of the northern state has been 1 ordered to leave camp Withycombe i arly tonight for Fort Rosecrans, Sac i Mego, and by Friday night the re minder of the Oregon militiamen wlL1 Y 00 on their way south. ( The orders to entrain at once foi the border came late last night tc Captain Kenneth P. Williams, federal 1 mustering officer. The second bat tallon and Battern A were ordered tc v leave Wednesday, the third infantrj headquarters, the machine and supplj companies will entrain Thursday and Troop A, cavalry and recruits will depart de-part Friday. Others Awaiting Assignments. 1 California militiamen encamped aj f Sacramento expected today to receive early orders for border assignments Captain Henry A. Hanigan, United States Army, mustering officer, an nounced that ho expected to have thj entire four thousand troops mustered ( Into the federal service by tomorrow $ night. The entire second infantrj ( will be ready for service late tonight Tho fact that the war department i has dispensed with all medical exam i Inatlons until the border Is reached, ! gave rise to the belief that the Call- fornia troopers will be ordered soutl soon. t Recruiting was being continued la y all the western states. Miles City, Mont, which has already furnished ; 155 men for militia service, has start- ed to supply a company of rough rid J ers. Sixty men were signed up early 1 today, ! ! Brooklyn Regiment Entrains. Peekskill, N. Y., Juno 27. The Four- ', teenth regiment of Brooklyn, nearly J 1,000 officers and men, entrained at the state camp here today for Browns- i ville, Texas. ! nn |
