Americus Times Recorder

NATIONAL GUARDS IN BIG HURRY FOR MOVES

Georgia is Moving Fast With Her Recruits

WORLD AWAITS ALL THE ORDERS FOR THE TROOPS

Georgia Troops Report For Duty 8 a.m. Tuesday

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19.—The mobilization of the national guard, called into the federal service by President Wilson late Sunday, is in full swing throughout the nation today.

In every state in the union the militia organizations have received orders to report at once at their respective mobilization camps and division, brigade, regimental and company commanders are busily getting their commands in readiness for action. Recruiting is active in many states, and in the larger cities applicants for enlistment are taxing the facilities of the national guard organization to muster them into the service. This is especially true in the Southern states, where the president's call for militiamen has met a responsive echo in the increased enlistments already reported at the various state military headquarters.

Orders to mobilize their commands for federal service were sent Sunday night from Washington to the governors of the various states, being in turn directed to the adjutant generals of the national guard organizations. Direct orders to mobilize and report with their full commands were sent brigade, regimental and company commanders, early today and before noon several of the regimental units had reported as ready for duty. Brig.-Gen. Van Holt Nash, of the Georgia national guard, with headquarters at Atlanta, ordered the militia organizations of that state to report at their respective armories at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, fully equipped and ready for action.

Three thousand officers and men will report in accordance with the order issued by Adjutant General Nash, being concentrated first at Macon, whence they will be assigned to positions along the Mexican border.

The Alabama national guard organization constitutes a total of 2,900 officers and men, and has been ordered to mobilize at Montgomery within thirty-six hours, while the Louisiana and Mississippi troops are expected to complete mobilization during tomorrow. The North Carolina and Virginia militia, two of the best organized units in the nation's second line of defense, began assembling today, and most of these troops will have reached their rendezvous before morning. The South Carolina militia is in a badly disorganized state, the result of a dispute between state and federal officials during Cole Blease's term as governor of—

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that state, and the military authorities at Charleston announce that three days will be required to complete the mobilization there.

Fifteen thousand national guardsmen, representing probably the best trained troops called into the service Sunday, began assembling in their armories throughout New York state early this morning. As rapidly as the company and regimental units were completed, these troops hurried to the concentration camp at Peekskill, and the entire contingent will be ready to move south before tomorrow night. All the other New England states are actively getting their troops together, and a splendid army will be ready to go to the border from that section before the end of the week. The men are all required to undergo rigid physical examinations before going to the concentration camps, and only those who come within the physical and mental standards required for enlistment in the regular army are accepted.

On the Pacific coast unprecedented military activity is in evidence everywhere. California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho, all have ordered their militia organizations to report without delay at their respective camps, and within the next forty-eight hours it is expected that approximately nine thousand troops representing these states will be on the move toward Texas and the Mexican border.

Washington Officials Say Nothing.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19.—A Mexican embassy official left a communication at the state department this morning, and returning to the embassy stated he acted on telegraphic instructions from Gen. Carranza, who is at Mexico City. State department officials declined to divulge anything concerning the Mexican communication, though it probably is a request for a prompt reply to Carranza's recent note demanding the withdrawal of American troops south of the border.

Make Effort to Avoid Clash.

COLUMBUS, N. M., June 19.—Brigadier General John J. Pershing, who is in command of the main expeditionary force now in Mexico, is taking every precaution today to prevent any trivial incident precipitating a clash with Carranza troops in that country.

Reports from his field headquarters, near Namiquipa, state of Chihuahua, says a detachment of American troops stationed near an encampment of Carranza troops has been withdrawn, and that scouting patrols have been instructed to be extremely cautious. The communications lines stretching from this city and other points along the border into the interior of Mexico, are being watched closely by American authorities and any attempt on the part of Mexicans to interfere with the transportation of supplies or the passage of troops trains to and from Gen. Pershing's headquarters might precipitate an immediate engagement between the de facto government's army and United States forces.

Call For All Troops.

WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19.—President Wilson has called out the national guards of every state for service on the Mexican border.

The announcement was made late Sunday afternoon, and the Secretary of War Newton D. Baker began moving the machinery of his office by informing the officers in every state of the union.

The minimum national guard force which is called numbers 145,000 men, according to Brigadier General Mills, chief of the division of militia affairs.

Statement of Baker.

Secretary Baker issued the following statement:

"In view of the disturbed conditions on the Mexican border and in order to assure complete protection for all Americans, the president has called out substantially all the state militia, and will send them to the border wherever and as fully as General Funston determines them to be needed for the purpose stated.

"If all are not needed an effort will be made to relieve those on duty there from time to time, so as to distribute the duty.

"This call for militia is wholly unrelated to General Pershing's expedition and contemplates no additional entry into Mexico, except as may be necessary to pursue bandits who attempt outrages on American soil.

"The militia are being called out so as to leave some troops in the several states. They will be mobilized at their home stations where necessary recruiting can be done."