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Show Elf il TOUR , ! Resumes Command of Cen-' i Iral Department Because j of Strike ! i BOSTON, April 13. Major Gen- 'oral Leonard Wood today cancelled1 the leave of absence which he ob- mined to make a campaign for the' Republican nomination for president and said he would leave later in the ,-day Cor qhlcago tt. -resume his duties as comriiandi.ng general of. tho. central department. IK stated thai his action was due to railrqad strike conditions. General Wood in making tho an-j nomicement said: i t "Tho situation of growing serious- j ness In the country is such that I foci , it my duty to give up my leave and to return to my post of command in : Chicago. The situation Is not one which allow personal considerations to entvr into the matter in the least." : The general now is on a two months' leave which, was granted him by the 'war department March 20. j CHICAGO. April 13. General Leo-nard Leo-nard Wood's raniyalsm for the presidential presi-dential nomination will not be affected affect-ed by his return lo army duties here, his campaign managers announced 1 this morning. The general wl)l make such short speaking tours as he can J w-thOiU Interfering with his duties at the central 'iTcpaflment headquarters. I I Army officers here have been ' watching the strike developmental 'closely for several days. Colonel' Humphries, chlpf of staff, left on Monday for a tour of the eastern sec- lion of the department. |