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Show UNCLE SAM MUST FOOT THE BILL FOR FEEDING MEXICANS Keep of the Mexican Federals Who Are to Be Held at Fort Bliss Will Cost $45,000 a Month. El Paso,, Tex. Arrangements for the caring indefinitely for General Salvador Sal-vador Mercado and his 4,309 federal soldiers who ran into the United States after being defeated by the rebels at Ojinaga, Mexico, were completed com-pleted at Fort Bliss on Saturday. The feeding, tenting and clothing of the exiled Huerta forces will be at the expense of the United States government. gov-ernment. Estimates were that it would cost $45,000 a month to provide for the self-invited guests. Brigadier General Gen-eral Hugh L. Scott has ordered rations ra-tions to be distributed at the rate of half a carload a day. General Mercado has learned that he would be court-martialed if he returned return-ed to Mexico. The report said that General Mercado had been , criticised for evacuating Ghihauhau, Ojinaga and other places. General Mercado merely repeated his statement that he ordered the soldiers and , citizens to flee form Ojinaga on grounds of humanity hu-manity because the rebels had ammunition ammu-nition and he had practically none. |