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Show TROOPS TO STAY ON BORDER. Guardsmen Will Not be Sent Back Home at Present. Washington. The national guard will be retained on the Mexican border bor-der until it can be withdrawn without with-out again endangering American lives and property. Secretary Baker so declared the administration's ad-ministration's policy on Monday In answering a score of letters from many part sof the country complaining complain-ing that the state troops were being held in service after the emergency for which they were called out apparently appar-ently has passed. In general, the complainants, whose names were withheld, alleged that border service was entailing loss financially on militiamen and hardship on their families. The secretary replied re-plied to all those seeming to merit attention. By its presence on the border, he wrote to one, the guard is "winning bloodless victories dally." He declared that Americans resident along the international line were enjoying en-joying a peace and security they could not continue to have without the military forces to protect them. |