Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1914 — War Department Sends First Instruction for Mobilization. [ARTICLE]

War Department Sends First Instruction for Mobilization.

There was some activity in the headquarters of the Indiana National Guard Monday following the receipt of an order from the war department instructing the adjutantgeneral how to proceed In case mobilization was ordered. AdjutantGeneral Bridges called his assistants together and prepared and is sending outa bulletin to all officers of the Indiana National Guard. While no suggestion of the present war is contained 'in the instruo tions, it nevertheless had the effect of creating considerable enthusiasm, as the guard had received no other information of an official kind since- the Mexican trouble became acuta - It is understood that an order will be sent out Within a few days informing the organizations of the guard the essentials for assembling and recruiting at the home stations and also about the property that would be taken and the property that would bp left at home in the event of mobilization at Fort Benjamin Harrison; The war' department also wrote to seven retired medical officers in Indianapolis asking whether they were ready to serve in case they were needed.

' The annual 'convention of the Indiana Sunday School- association will be held in Indianapolis June 16-18.