Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1916 — Twenty Thousand Troops Due At El Paso This Week. [ARTICLE]

Twenty Thousand Troops Due At El Paso This Week.

Hurried preparations for the reception of national guardsmen were under way at El Paso Monday night, opinion that approximately 20,000 guardsmen will arrive there 'before the end of the week, and with the 50,000 regular troops now stationed there will make El Paso tlie largest military concentration camp in the United States. With the entire national guard of Massachusetts New Jersey and Connecticut approximately 10,000 men under orders to entrain for El Paso Colonel George Bell, Jr., commanded the local militia district, said that few were making preparations for the rousing and ration of 25,000 so he would ibe prepared to care for additional troops sent him. It is planned that about 5,000 oPtae state troops now on their way here will Ibe station at Fort Bliss, Tex., the outskirts of the town while camp sites were laid within the corporation limits of the city for the remaining 5,000. General Bell said that water mains had been laid, sewer connection made and the ground levelled, leaving nothing for the guardsmen to do on their arrival but to set up their canvass.

Last Sunday was the fortieth anniversary of the massacre of General Custer's troops. Our patriotic pitiens John O’Connor called our attention to the fact and observed that it was a strange co-incident that almost a parallel event had happened only a few days .before when two cavalry Mr. O’Connor flew the large flag at half mast in observance of the occassion.