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Show IMEXIGAN IROOPS BOUND F0R JUAREZ HUE RTA WILL SEND THREE I THOUSAND REGULARS WITH ARTILLERY TO BORDER. Mobilization of Troops Ordered by Mexican War Department Will Swell the Juarez Garrison to Thirty-five Hundred Men. El Paso, Texas. Within the- next few days 3,000 federal regular troops will be mobilized at Juarez and the military headquarters of the second military zone of Mexico, which takes in the entire state of Chihuahua, will be transferred to Juarez, federal offi cials stated Monday. General Salvador Mercado, commander com-mander of the zone, will also come to Juarez .to take charge of the troops. The mobilization of the troops at the international boundary has been ordered or-dered by the Mexican war department. The additional 3,000 troops will swell the Juarez garrison to 3,600 men. The new troops will bring heavy artillery. General Mercado will retire as military mili-tary governor of the state, Juarez officials of-ficials said, and General Francisco Castro, commander of the federal troops at Juarez will replace him. General Ostro departed on a special train from Juarez 64 Monday for Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. The war department, in its orders for the organization of the federal forces in the second military zone, has commanded the mobilization of aT. volunteer forces in the state of Chihuahua. Chi-huahua. General Pascual Orozco of the volunteers will foe commander of the Irregular forces, but will be subordinate sub-ordinate to General Mercado and Castro. Cas-tro. General Jose Ynez Salazar and his force of volunteer federals who have composed part of the Juarez garrison, gar-rison, have been ordered to give up their pursuit of Villa and to proceed directly to Chihuahua. |