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Newspaper
New York Tribune
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1916
Page
7
The article reports on escalating border strain as leaders claim no side wants war yet actors on the frontier push toward conflict. It notes plans on mobilization paused awaiting Carranza’s reply and details an expanded arms embargo intended to curb shipments to enemies of Carranza. Baker defends militiamen supplies while blaming distribution delays on railroads.
Major General H Oden Lake announces Army and Navy Union ready to mobilize in war with Mexico. Department commanders ordered to assemble local garrisons and form skeleton companies. Lange department with about 1,000 members to coordinate with national HQ. Colonel Aubrey J. Parody appointed to assemble members at the star of General Lake. These veterans are trained former soldiers sailors and marines.
Reports from Chihuahua City detail Major Jenkins and Captain Boyd accounts of the Carrizal engagement with Carranza forces. Troops pursued Mexican units, with eight American troopers unaccounted for. prisoners described their marching order, the open plain battle, and orders to hold fire until fired upon.
Relatives packed the streets around the Thirty fourth Street and Park Avenue armory as the 71st Regiment prepared to depart for the border. Police, reserves, and railroad guards managed a crowded scene as crowds lingered and traffic chaos formed near the Pennsylvan ia Terminal before the march began.
Framingham Massachusetts fifth Infantry Regiment the first of the Massachusetts militia to start for the Mexican border left here at 11:10 tonight for El Paso Texas. Three other regiments and the second brigade quarters were entrained tonight. Signal was held up by slow loading of equipment. tomorrow a battalion of field artillery Signal Ambulance Field Hospital units and cavalry squadron are expected to entrain.
Non arrival of promised equipment kept Connecticut troops from leaving at the scheduled time. The 1st Infantry would muster 740 to 150 men, the 3rd 822, with Troop B Hartford chosen as cavalry due to shortages of mounts. Yale artillery recruitment was underway with athletes arriving from their homes for service.
Captain I. G. Montgomery of the 1st Armored Motor Battery 220 Engineers received orders last night to move his men and equipment to Peeks hill tomorrow. The corps has 155 men, three armored cars, two service tractors and five smaller service automobiles, plus fifty motorcycles. The battery carries twenty five machine guns, but this number will be decreased.
San Antonio June 26 reports border prep for National Guardsmen to replace Rio Grande troops. About 70,000 militia expected within ten days, with 12,000 to start and 9,000 more to follow. Quartermaster work, vast supply orders, and $10,000,000-plus bids for 24,000 draft and pack mules and 69,000 cavalry and artillery mounts.
Hurried preparations in El Paso as about 20,000 National Guard members arrive or en route with 1,000 regular troops to form a large military concentration. General Kell orders housing and rations for as many as 26,000, with 5,000 to Fort Bliss and 6,000 to camp within city limits. Noncommissioned officers to drill recruits. quartermaster depot plans a $1,000,000 equipment influx.
Washington dispatch reports that 20000 more men may reach the border this week and by two weeks about 50000 could be transported south. The whole force summoned under President Wilson’s call may be moved within weeks as officials accelerate mobilization. Secretary Baker and General Scott inspected the District of Columbia camp at Del Ray Virginia where District guardsmen were mustered into federal service.
Sea Girl New Jersey June 26 Before midnight the first trainload of the state's National Guard Batteries A and B departed for the Mexican border. Officers and men loaded guns horses and heavy equipment while crowds waved goodbye. Two deaths occurred in camp that day one by self harm and another from acute indigestion.
Washington reports that coastal port officials in Yucatan and other eastern Mexico areas have extinguished harbor lights and lighthouse signals for several nights. State Department advices indicate these actions aim to impede possible American troop landings.
The New York forces bound for the border at Brownsville Texas are listed with units totaling dozens of officers and hundreds of men. Infantry units, signals, cavalry, field artillery and support corps are shown with exact rail routes via Pennsylvania Railroad New York Central Nickel Plate and more to San Antonio Linton and Brownsville, among other hubs and lines.
Harrisburg June 26 On receipt of orders from the War Department Adjutant General Stewart has ordered the 1st Brigade comprising the 1st 2d and 34th regiments of Philadelphia to prepare to leave the mobilization camp at Mount Gretna by tomorrow night
Illinois and Wisconsin National Guard infantry brigades were set to move toward Fort Sam Houston, with uncertain destination and possible reassignment. Missouri National Guard mobilized and awaiting placement. General Barry reported no request from General Funston to deploy nine regiments to the border had been received.
Rome reports Italian forces sunk two Austrian transports in Durazzo harbor. The ships were loaded with troops arms and ammunition as the action occurred.
Edward Lynch a night watchman earning 12 dollars weekly sent 85 to Harry Perry head of the Big Tim Sullivan Association. The group plans a monument for former East Side political leader Paul Vacarelli says any public shortfall will be covered by the association to erect the monument.
The Senate voted 4 to 30 to reject the grant of $50 a month as extra pay to militiamen with dependent families, amid a heated battle over drafting guards into federal service. Sherman urged declaring war, arguing readiness and equipment were lacking as Pershing faced border pressures. debate featured friction between Sherman and Chamberlain and objections to calling the militia a draft.
Vera Cruz June 26 Six Americans are missing from the Tuxpam district as dispatches fail to identify them. Over 1,000 Americans remain aboard oil tankers in Tampico river with 276 yet to embark. no injuries reported among those aboard. Refugee embarkation to northern ports under consideration to speed arrival and ease quarantine, amid typhus and yellow fever fears. officials note crowded quarantines at Key West New Orleans and Galveston.
Refugees report the U S consulate in Torreon Mexico was destroyed June 18 by a mob of about 3000, led by the Torreon mayor and a Carranza band. The crowd, spurred after a bull fight, forced by de facto troops, shouted death to all gringos and wrecked the building. Americans escaping describe mass meeting in the central plaza and incitement by local leaders.
Washington June 24 government and Congress moved to craft a censorship bill on war news to prevent information crossing borders. War Secretary Baker sets up a department press bureau to manage field news while not restricting domestic publication. Aims include guarding Canadian Mexican cables and border transmission. Also notes a Wall Street cavalry idea led by Leonard Snider seeking volunteers and funds plus an aviator Charleo "Do Anything" who died after a looping loop in Oshkosh.
Washington June 26 President Wilson expressed appreciation for business houses announcing their employers would be allowed to serve with the National Guard without loss of salaries or positions. Several firms pledged full pay and job security for guardsmen, adding to the growing Business Men's Roll of Honor. Names of companies and details of pay arrangements are listed.
Brownsville June 26. One armed Mexican was shot and killed and the other was wounded by patrol duty tonight near Progreso Texas, forty one miles west. The two Mexicans failed to halt when called on by the patrol. The wounded man escaped into Mexico.
Washington on June 26 reports a planned virtual embargo of commerce with Mexico until relations are settled. Customs inspectors have halted shipments and no arms pass. The measure would ban goods usable in military operations, with an official proclamation following a declaration of war. Items listed include rubber, powder, dynamite, iron and steel products, uniforms, shoes, and various foods.
Nogales Ariz June 28 Carranza authorities released all prisoners from Sonora border town jails tonight. It is believed the men were freed to join the Mexican army amid food difficulties and scarce supplies.
A chaotic scene erupts as a boy named Danny Roux brings a dozen large hats from Mexico, triggering fear and a few days of social stir. His father Hibbar Marserioux notes American interests in Mexico require force, reflecting broader tensions that unsettled the boy’s hat collection and public mood.
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