Show MEXICANS m MARCH TO RESCUE E 0 OF f MORMONS Federal Troops i Are re Sent u Pos Posthaste to Vi Western estel l' l 4 Chihuahua Where Vi l Has Tight Grip on n Th Three J RE JUAREZ Mci ex March IS lS-I lS xI x- x i iV f If ican ican f federal troops have been ordered or 01 dered to 0 to Chihua Chihuahua hua liua by bo forced marches to io l' l rec rescue cite e Bishop Dishop J Joseph C. C Bentley president l lof t of t the thc c Juarez Mormon l stake James E. E hetten chief miss missionary o of the stake and Albert another member of the Mormon mon olony colony in Mexico r ico Thc They were captured captured- by i troops near Las Ciu es v I f x and are being held in Villas Villa's maui main camp according ing to ll unconfirmed reports reports re re- re- re ports received here by Mormon church o officials C Col 1 Agustin gustin Mora rora announced late e toda today that thal General Zuazua with OO cavalry ca ba had been ordered to proceed from eu as Casas Casas' Gran Grandes cs into western Chihuahua Chihuahua- in iu an effort to fo rescue the three Mormons At the same me time CoL Cot Del Arco with an infantry command ho said will pro pro- from Crom Guzman toward Ascension and Janos with orders to drive irl l loft off oft the Villa yuta comman command under Martin Lopez an and Kamon Hamon Ye Vega a and U Bunk S Spencer the n negro gro foreman of oi the Ojitos ranch and tho the ten cowboys cowboys' who arc are being held by Lopez us i hJ hostages host host- t- t apes ages for fOl the payment of or which was sent to OJItos Saturday by Superintendent Super of oC tho the Warren Cattie Gattie Cat Cat- tie tic com company pan Colonel Moras toras stated tb that t Spencer and the lie Warren company's cowboys were being hold held In northwestern Chi while military information sh showed owed Bi Bishop shop Be U M Missionary Issi narY nar and Albert were be beIng being being be- be ing In lii Villas Villa's camp amp n aCar ar seventy se miles we west vest t of oC City No 00 ransom om his has been de lie demanded do- do for the release of the Mormons according to Bishop A. A L. L Pierce ln In In charge chars of oC church here herc l t State Department i r f Asks Protection f I. I r Washington ton March IS The IS-The The American Ameri merl can cnn embassy at it Mexico City was vas i In Instructed iii- iii t. t toda today b by the state department to request the Mexican government 0 io to take ever every post possible Jo step to insure tto tuo protection of r American citizens In iii the Iho territory in III northern Mexico where bands again have e become act act authorities also will willbo willbo lye hc The rhe Mexican bo be asked askell to effect the release of or Jan Jant 1 E. E helten an American who with Joseph Bentley a a. bishop of or the tho Mormon church and amid a a. naturalized Mexican was wait captured b by Villa Illa forces near Las Cruces Cruces Cru- Cru ces Chihuahua sonic some days Ilas ago Information that hetten was In th s lands hands of r t tho the bandits reached the lie de do- only a short ihor time before telegram was received from I alIve Edward L L. Hamilton of uC Michi- Michi Ichi gan nn vho ho said suid lie ho had 1 been een informed b by Warren a Co that thal of or the tha company's compans ranch at OJItos Chihuahua held IJ by Martin Lopez a Villa leader cader who demanded ransom under tinder threat of oC killing hilling the ifie prisoners an and destroying the ranch r J or Y x The Tho met message aSe said the the ranch was endeavoring t to raise the in money noney o n ey In connection with this case tho the do do- disclosed that thai two days U ayo ao ayol o. o it l directed the lie embassy ut t tho the MeSI can capital to ur urgently re request th the SJ Mexican government o to extend the thi pro per pcr pr protection to the employee and the lie pro property crt of or Warren arren 8 Co Cu at OJItos J Information now In tho thu hands of or the state slate department shows that Iho tho baud- baud Its have hati been active for at least twelve twel liars days and that their operations cover eo a comparatively wide rl n range e of or territory The rhe town of or Person Peldon In northern CI 1 ClI- was raided by Lopez Loper and anti J Ka- Ka tuon Vega e on March larch t 6 some time be before be be- fore roi-c- the bandits descended upon l. l Lu s Truces Cruces and look took and iY BenU Hamilton said Lopez mad haLl captured the lie towns of Janos n And nill d and thAt Lopez Lopea had hud mei men his commando command So o far as h has is been nt made known th the th Continued on P Page 1 e Z I IANS ANS M TO TOtS RESCUE tS UE Of MORMONS Continued from Pa Page Pago 1 ie I dep department has no specific kloa lo los as to the operations of ot Villa IlIa elf df It was s recalled today how how- tint that cn only recently Villa was re- re have stated that he lie proposed a campaign In northern Chi Chi- UI near the international line to tp p the of or tho the American nell they began their present series predations depredations Villa ilia bands had been Inactive since the raid raidi i Columbus N Nt M M. in 1915 which led ed the dl dispatch patch of f an American force Mexico under tinder General Pershing m loUd and i Vega were ere Villas Villa's chief chic lIeu lIeu- uati ts IJ durIn during his hie campaign in north- north before the tho Columbus raid |