Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1916 — 14,000 Troops From the East Enroute South. [ARTICLE]

14,000 Troops From the East Enroute South.

Supplies have been provided along the Mexican border for, an army of 200,000 men for the next thirty days, according to the announcement Tuesday night by the quartermasters of the United States army. It is als-i learned from the same source that 2,000 motor trucks have been purchased from twenty different automobile manufacturing concerns at an average cost of $3,000 each, and that bids have been asked for four hundren passenger automobiles to be used by the officers of the various commands along the border. Major General Wood, commanding the department of the east in a report to the war department, stated ‘hat 14,000 troops from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticutt and Vermont are now enroute to the border. The troop trains will stop several times daily to pennit the troops to exercise.