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Show FUSION'S FORCES REACHJERA CRUZ FIFTH ARMY BRIGADE WILL RE LI EV E NAVY OF LAND WORK AT MEXICAN PORT. The American Flag for the First Time Since 1847 is Raised Over the Tower of the Fortress Prison of San Juan de Uloa. Vera Cruz. The transports bring ing the Fifth army brigade, compris ing the Fourth, Seventh, Nineteentn and Twenty-eighth infantry regi ments, under Brigadier General FTed erick Fdnston, were made fast at the docks shortly before 10 o'clock Tuesday Tues-day morning. TjT-rD-aHioi- nTiprnl Fnnston. accorn panied by Captain Harry McL. P ! Huse, chief of staff of Rear Admiral Fletcher, immediately came ashore to confer with Admiral Fletcher. Brigadier General Funston . was busily occupied after breakfast in writing dispatches, most of them to the war department. There was at least one of them, however which had nothing to do with the army or the government. It was a reply to a dispatch dis-patch he had received telling him of the birth Monday o a daughter, i While Captain Huae was waiting to sse General Funston there took place a second official hoisting of the stars and silipes. The American flag for the first time since 1847 was raised over the tower of the fortress prison of San Juan de Oloa. , I Rear Admiral Fletcher and Brigadier Briga-dier General Funston, when they met,' went over the situation in Vera Cruz i The arrival of the soldiers was not marked by any ceremony. The few Mexican laborers working about the docks looked on at the fresh force without displaying any interest. The soldiers will relieve the men rrom the ships of the patrolling of. Vera Crua, I |