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Show BLISS HAS CLOSE CALL FOR HIS LIFE NACO. Ariz., Dec. 1 0. Brigadier General Gen-eral Tasker J T. Rlisa of the United States army, who arrived today to take command of the situation here, gained experience of "stray" bullets fired by the Mexican combatants across the line, soon after alighting from the train. Two bullets from the Mexican trenches about Naco. Sonora. struck perilously near the general, who' was inspecting a United States army bombproof at the time. One bullet sang by the. general's automobile auto-mobile as it stopped near the immigration immigra-tion station. After he alighted and was I talking with his aide and other army I officers about the occurrence another I bullet sped close overhead, j The itnmigra ton station, guarded by soldiers, who take shelter in three bomb-proofs bomb-proofs near by, is about 1 0 feet north of the international boundary. South of ! it and between it and the Mexican line a line of loaded coal cars have been drawn up to protect the American town from tho bullets flying from the Mexican trenches. The line of coal cars is parted just at the rear of the station to permit communication with the boundary. General Gen-eral Bliss was near this opening when the bullets whistled through. Today was comparatively quiet on the Mexican side, but the scores of bullets fired by the soldiers of Governor May-toiena May-toiena and General Hill, the rival Sonora leaders, fell on American territory. At other times bullets literally hailed across tile boundary. The American town of Naco is les than a quart er mile wide and there is a. hardly a house in it that has not been hit at least once by Mexican Mexi-can bullets. Fully half of the dwellings have been evacuated. General Bliss saw one store, the plate .glass windows of which had been perforated twenty times. This store is elfihty feet from the boundary boun-dary line. Several of the forty-nine persons per-sons killed or wounded on this side of the line received their Injuries near this place. Messages received tonight stated that the t hree batteries of art illery ordered here from Ul Paso would arrive early tomorrow. |