Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1916 — 15,000 SOLDIERS ARE ORDERED HOME [ARTICLE]

15,000 SOLDIERS ARE ORDERED HOME

To Be Mustered Out of Federal Service—Other Guardsmen to Take Place of Those Returning. Washington, Sept. 7. —Orders were issued by the war department today for the discharge from federal service as soon as practicable of twelve national guard regiments, comprising about 15,000 men, recently withdrawn to their home states from the Mexican border and a number of smaller organizations of some 1,500 college and • university students. Orders for the mustering out of additional units are expected to follow soon. The next regiment to leave the federal service will be the Fourteenth New York infantry, which will go as soon as its members are free from danger of para-typhoid contagion. A number of cases of the disease already have been reported in that regiment ana it will be held in camp as a rriatter of precaution until the infection has been eradicated.

Theer are about 40,000 guardsmen still in state mobilization camps and these probably will be dispatched to the border very soon to relieve men now serving there. Secretary Baker favors giving all the state troops a chance for the training to'be acquired on the patrol line. Officers of the general staff said that the release of the guardsmen resulted principally from the improving conditions on the border. The original order for all guardsmen in the federal service to move to the border as soon : s possible, although held in abeyance by General Funston’s request, received by the department when the railroad strike was imminent, has not been revoked. Secretary Baker is expected to lift the suspension shortly and permit troops waiting in mobilization camps to move as soon as they are ready.