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ACTIVE WORK STARTS
FOR
NA-
TIONAL GUARD
Col.
George
E
Thorne,
IJ.
S.
A,,
and
Viajor Jonn
A
Wilson,
Adjuiant
aeneral,
in Charge
MANY
ITOWNS
ARE
IN{ERESTED
Qaq
Juan,
dowever,
Has
No:
Yet Made
a Start
lowoard
any
Prelininary
. Urganization.
Porto
Rico
may
soon
have
an
aciive
|
N:.ional
G iacd
organization
as
result
of
|
efiorts
beit
¢ niade
by Major John
A. Wil-
sou.
. the A.djutant
General
of Porto
hico
and
Colonel
Geo.
E.
Thorne,
U.
8. A.,
wlo has
been
detailed
here
to
organize
the Naiional uard
'n Por.o
Rico.
Colonel ¥norne
and Major Wilson
plan-
ned
this week
to go
to Ponce
to see
waat
wes
being donz
<here
toward
a prelimni-
na'y
militia
organization.
lLater
visi‘s
wid
be
made
0
other
towns
where
an
inierest
in
tne
National
Guard
organi-
zation &as
already
been
shown.
in order
(o get the organization
start-
ed and’ equipped
as quickly as
possible.
™
Cofonel '%orne
has
requested
the War
Départment
to anthorize
the
use of guns
and other cquipment
now in
the custody
|
of Colcnel Melvilie 5.
Jarvis,
of the Por-
to
Rico Regiment,
for
issuance
to
the
new
National
Guard
orgauizations
as
they are formed.
j
- According to the present
plans itis pro-
|
posed
to ofganize
one
infantry
regiment
|
and
one
squadron
of cavalry.
After
these
units
have
been
completed
and
I
trained it is possible
that
efforts
may be
|
made
to develop gefull brigade of
militia
here.
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VEE
gy
CHRISTIANSTED,
V.l. ÜB2 8.
THURSDAY.
183tH
NOVEMBER
1919
So far san
Juan
hes
shown
htile inter
est
in the
new Natio.
.al Gaard.
In
most
towns
that
are large
:noun
to
furnish
a
company,
commiitee,
hay .
been
appoint-
ed
to take
care
of
th:
preliminary
orga-
nizations
of
the comhanies
but
Ban
.iuan
has
not et
gotten
this far.
Ponce
Yau-
co.
Mayaguez
and
‘Aguadilla
have
all
sghov
n considerable
interest
and
are
ex®
pected
to provide one’or
more
companies
each.
Penuelas
and
Guay nitlia togeiher
think they
can
raise
a company
and
are
much interested
in
the
prospect.
Other
towns in
the island
glso
are
making
in-
quiries
about
the
ne
¥
or zenization
and
now that
Colonel
Tharne,
who has
been
detailed specially
to promote
this work in
Por
o
Rico
has
arrived,
it
is
expected
that actual organization
w.ll go
forward
rapidly.
:
i
Colonel
Thorne
h%
been
engaged
in
militia work in
the
War
Dep:rtment
for
several
years
and
is thoroughly
familiar
—~with all of its details.t
He is
an
experi-
enced
officer havin:*
been
in
the
army
for 21 years
and ha:
esnservice
in many
parts of the world.
de
was
on
duty in
France
in
the
recent
war. —Porto
Rico
Progress,
Oct.
31st.
THOROUGHTLY
CAPTURED.
A man who was
wanted
by
the
police
had been photographed
in s« different pes-
itions,
and the pictures
sent
to the
Chief
~
of Police of a provin(gial
town
where
it
was thought likely th2
fupitive
was
in
hiding.
After the
lipse of
a
few
day
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Police
Office,
November
sth
1919.
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