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Show ! IL FIGHT IDLE US. . IS THREAT ' OF VILLA " ormer Bandit Chief Asserts As-serts He Will Attack ' Agua Prieta, Ameri-c Ameri-c cans or No Americans, V and No Longer Cares 'What Happens to the Foreigners. ENERAL DAVIS l KEEPING WATCH ",u- luns and Men Posted in Commanding Positions to Protect Douglas From Bullets From Ac-cross Ac-cross Border; Other Troops in Trenches. SAN AJ.TOS10, Tex., Oct 31. Mcjcr General Frederick Funston, xmcanding the department of the south, left tonight for Douglas, iriz., to supervise the movements , )f American troops in tlie preserva- ion of neutrality during General A V ilia's expected attack on the 'Mexican border town of Agua Ii:ternatioi:al News Service. DOUGLAS, Ariz., Out. 31. "Attack ..la Prieta? Tes. and the entire "-.ite.I states army it cecessary! " ' i.Jais statement was made to a corre-t corre-t ,Q,ieiit of the International News nice by General Francisco Villa over :ence on the international border nine . ca5t ot Douglas this afternoon. A !e to the south long columns of Vil-s Vil-s troops were advancing toward Ajrua ieta. Here Villa learned for the first time it Carranza troops were being trans- Tted through the United States to nforce Agua Prieta against his at-f- and that four trains already had ived there. This information called from the "them leader this ttatement: 'reigners May Suffer. '1 don't give a damn any longer at happens to foreigners in Mexico 7S in ray territory. This is the way '" i United States repays me for my itection to foreigners and their prop-'.' prop-'.' . y " .. , villa stated that his columns advanc-" advanc-" - : on Agua Prieta numlered only 13,-;. 13,-;. ' men. 'I'll fight boj-h Carranza and the iter States both at the same time necessary. As long as there is a igle for justice going on in Mexico 7 i will find Pancho Villa fighting. )ra now on you will find him fight-i fight-i harder than ever before. i'Agua Prieta is going to be mine, Ejipricans or no Americans. I can whip I I Tanza, I can whip his whole army, 206' s asking a great deal to ask me whip the whole United States also. wevcr, the battle for Agua Prieta is nr to take place.'7 '.- rranza Troops Ready. - . "lie Carranza forces at Agua Prieta -e been strengthened .by an addi-vnal addi-vnal .0000 men with abundant sup- tronP defenses have been com-t com-t i't'A. Miles of trenches built by African troops and provided with Jib-proof's parallel the border. '. - -ilia's main body of troops came into t ' w about ten miles to the southeast , afternoon. Tho cavalry force, esti-! esti-! t"r( at jono, a.-ting ns his right flank f ,! rd, was marching close to the bor- Keeping pace with them on the icrican side were two troops of the . ith ravalrv. t is autlioritativoly stated that Gen-. Gen-. j 1 .fohn J. Pershing will arrive to-I to-I ht to supersede General Davis in imand of the American troops. , ' 1 'hat Villa will attack within twelve rs was predicted by the American h'Jrities here tonight. nerican Escapes. . - i' . 'liac v, :,n A iiH'i icau who has t craped from the Villa column, uTiGriT WHOLE 0. S SAYS 1U (Oontlnried from Page One.) where be was held as prisoner i'or three days, states thnt Genera Bracamonte, otic of Villa's generals, told him that the attack would open against Agna Printa on Monday morning at day-In'cali. day-In'cali. I'loni information secured by Tracy from three American surgeons with the Villa ttoops, the column is supported by forty-five cannon and about sixty machine guns, but food supplies sup-plies are woefully short. Tracy states that Bracamonto divided equally with ! i him last night one cup of coffee and one tortilla, all the fuod in sirlit. Corn dropped from the horses' mouths in the corrals is eagerly sought by the soldiers and ground into meal. Tracy was taken prisoner when he attempted to eftcct the release of twen- j ty two Americans .being held by Villa, j Those Americans are being carried j along by Villa as prisoners. They wore I pressed into service with their teams' at Colon sa Dublau and forced to assist, in the ansport of the Villa column . on their march into Sonera. Kl forts to secure their release are now being, made by American authorities here. Awaits Attack. Villa's attack is awaited calmly by General Calles, the Carranza commander. com-mander. 'I am ready for thu battle at any ! moment, " he said. I Cailes's trenches are filled with sol- dicrs, his guns ajid cannon are in place j and the commander himself is confi- dent of victory. "We can take care of ourselves and I will need no assistance from the United States,"' he told tlie International Newe Hi'i-vire correspondent. i Colonel Herbert J. Slocum, commanding command-ing 'lie Second cavalry brigade, to- i meht scut to General Funston a report or the interview had with Villa, with the recommendation that Funston come to Douglas without loss of time. The attitude of Villa, revealed in the interview', in-terview', is conhidered by the military authorities here to indicate a situation much more serious than heretofore sup-. po-ed. The sit uat ion i? exemplified in the report brought hy Tracy that Villa at ( olonia. Ouxaen, on Friday attacked an American who had been with him three years. Water Is Short. Villa ii.-M.Tted that his entire plan of tiimpaiiin had been mapped out. At that time the general waa with a small i'O'ivguard three miles cat of Nieger lica'd, a bkick butte .iii?t bobuv the .border .bor-der ami almost within range of the three-inch guns of tha Agua Frieta gurrUon. Fbotographs were takeu ot some of his party, but Villa himself declined to pose. ' ' No more of my pictures for the I'nited Stales,'' he explained, smilingly. Fart of the flunk guard approached and a.-dicd about water. Thev were told that there was water at the Gal-lardo Gal-lardo ranch. ' ' Oli, ' ' replied a Mexican officer, "we have drunk all the water there.' This 'officer also stared that a detachment de-tachment of :i'Miit men, last sen deploying de-ploying on the desert Jour miles eat of Agua .Frieta, was almost entirely without water. FiL'htv sick and wounded men were brought' from Agua Pneta to Douglas tonight . drnriug the militarv buspital in thn Mexican town, rmtnigration of fi.-iah lo'ie eonscnted to the transfer of the men. Twenty-fie wor typhoid fever patients and the others surgical cases. Halt Out of Range. Cokuirl Floroiicio Diaz, commmulinR npproximKtolv l-'mo mvalry. proocde.l Ihe ri'ni;iindi'r of the invaders, uml h;i 1 1 fd with his forvc inst hpvuml rnncn of tin" K1"1" of Hnrn l:iias Oilli'S, tho Cnrran-a ornman.ler Itl Airun I'li'Mti.. Bnt-n.lirr (ii'tii'rnl Thmuas F. rav ia. in cniniiiali.l ot thn l'tiitPd Slates troni? itit .ri'ni'hiM just north of Hie Mnxiean line, inaiie a careful inspection of liis men anrl their positions, lie jtlfo hept a close watch of the Mexican militarv movement through field tjlasse?. which plninly hronfrht out. dotnils of the rap nllv advnneinc column. Thousands of spectators witnessed duriiiK the nfternoou the first shooting incident to the nl.lnck to occur near the border, when a horseman, liolipvcd to have hecn a (alios spv, su.ldenlv luoUe nnnv from the A'illa column and raced for his life amid n shower of bullets, bul-lets, for the l.eten,nircil Mexican town. Smeial of Ihe Villa soldiers went in pursuit of the. man shooting rapidly a they uracil 'he horses forward, but tho supposed spy reached Akuii Prieta, apparent ly uninjured. |