Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1914 — ARTILLERY IS READY [ARTICLE]

ARTILLERY IS READY

j.OCO CANNON FIBERS TOLD TO PREPARE FOR SERVICE. - Department of the East Receives Orders From Washington to Be Ready to Move on Mexico. New York, May 15. —Indicative of the first movement of troops toward Mexico from this locality in the department of the East, orders were issued to the coast artillery from Maine to Galveston to be prepared to move at a moment's notice. There are approximately six thousand men in this service, divided Into 78 companies and to be formed iiifd three regiments as provisional infantry. Col. John D. Barrette, comniander of the artillery district at Fort H. G. Wright, at the eastern end of Long Island sound, received his notification at midnight. Officers’ call was sounded at his fort and at Fort Terry, across the water, and a council was held, Major P. H. McAndrews, surgeon at Fort Terry, issued a call later for volunteers for the hospital corps. Arrangements have been made with the railroads for sudden,transportation of these troops. Ammunition and supplies in enormous quantities have been going out of this port for the last fewdays. Washington, May 15.—The last conference of the South American mediators was held during the day, and later It was announced that Ambassador Da Gama would start today for Niagara Falls, Ont., the scene of mediation negotiations next week. Minister Naon will leave tonight and Minister Suarez Saturday. ' The Spanish ambassador called at the state department to see what could be done for 800 Spaniards ejected by the constitutionalists from Torreon. He had a bill to present for $20,000,000 worth of Spanish-owned cotton, alleged to have been confiscated by the constitutionalists.