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Show REBELS BEGim IE MlCjl JUSE Citizens of the Border Mexican Mexi-can Town Seek Safety on the American Side. EL PASO, Tex.. July 2.-A report received re-ceived at Fort Bliss tonight from the border patrol at Columbus, .V. ai., ay8 that a messenger has reached Palamos Chihuahua, bringing the information that General Frpnclsco VIIId. constitutionalist commander in Chihuahua, has ordered his troops at Ascension to break camp and begin the march on Cluda.l Juarez tomorrow. to-morrow. tiTJ,"afei!. ;P(!oral officers stated today n?Ji .'V,1? IV,or",aUo twt Colonel Manuel Man-uel Landa .leading 500 cavalry, s march- garrison of the border town. The railroad rail-road Is completely I led up. The addition ;TaaB ""would bring tho .lunrcz Hgures "P ' accorcllnS to federal t,..T, constitutionalist forces commanded pj Colonel Ortega tonight occupy Guadalupe, Guada-lupe, and In Snn Tgnacio. forty miles clown the river from Juarvz. which places they captured from the federate this morning, Ortega Is lcadlncr 700 cavalry, local constitutionalists claim. No reports re-ports of a federal force being sent against Ortega hnvc been received. Juarez Jua-rez Is under martial law. A steady exodus exo-dus of residents to the American side is noted daily. . "WASHINGTON. July 2. Press reports of the treatment of women and children and other violations of the rules of civilized civ-ilized war. Incident to the capture of Du-i-ango by the Mexican constitutionalists, 'have caused the state department to call ,upon its -consuls in that section of Mexico Mexi-co for reports of the actual conditions there, Some concern Is felt here for the safety of Americans and lSuropenns. The "Wilson administration, so far ns Is known, has not pursued the policy adopted by former President Taft of warning either the Mexican government or the rebel chief against interference with the lives and property of the Americans. Ameri-cans. It -was suggested todav that this was a result of the administration's inclination in-clination to avoid any recognition of the Ifuerta government. Secretary Bryan maintains an attitude of reserve in discussing dis-cussing the reports and policies of the department de-partment regarding Mexico. |