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Show AMERICAN TROOPS OH IHEWAY NORTH AFTER. TEN MONTHS ON MEXICAN SOIL, SOLDIERS WILL RETURN TO THE BORDER. Believed That National Guardsmen Will be Ordered Back Home and Regulars Take up Border Guard Duty. Washington. Withdrawal ' of the American military expedition in Mexico Mex-ico was ordered by the war department depart-ment on Saturday, and by the end of another week the entire command, after ten months on Mexican soil, probably will have recrossed into the United States. The order went to General Funston, in command at the border, and left to his discretion the exact time of starting start-ing the northward movement and the details of carrying it out. For several weeks he has known of the aamlnis-traton's aamlnis-traton's determination to order the troops back to the border, and under his direction the expedition has been concentrated for the long march. At the border the regulars will relieve re-lieve a considerable portion, n not all, of the national guardsmen remaining on duty there. Already about 25,000 of tile state troops in the border patrol pa-trol have been ordered home, and their movement probably will be under un-der way by the time Pershing's men arrive on American soil. Although officials have been silent on the subejct of Mexico since failure of the joint commission negotiatons, developments outwardly have coupled tile troop withdrawal with Carranza's refusal to accept the Atlantic City protocol, and have plainly forecast an intention to let the first chief settle set-tle for himself hereafter the many problems endangering the tenure of the de facto government. |