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Show U, S. SOLDIERS NOT PERMITTED TO GROSS LINE Officials at Washington Are Puzzled Over Situation on Border, but Will Await Information. I CARRANZA DENIES RESPONSIBILITY Ranchman Has Thrilling Battle With a Party of Mexican Raiders; Kills Two, Wounds Three. WASHINGTON. Sept. 25 Major General Fucston. commanding United States troops on the border, and General Gen-eral Nafarrate. the (.'arranz command er. both disclaim for their men respon sibilitv for the fighting yesterday near Progreso, Tex., in which one Mexican trooper was killed and an officer was wounded. Reporting to the war department to-i to-i day. General Funstou aid his men had I repelled the raiding party, which fled across th border tinder the profession of soldiers "in nnionn" entrenched on the other side. The Carranza agency gave out a telegTam from General Nafarrate. asserting there were no Carranza Car-ranza troops in the vicinity. A full report on recent fighting along the border was made to the state department de-partment today by the war department. It states that in do case have American soldiers begun the firing, but it is ad- mitted that civilians and deputy sher-j sher-j iffs in Texas have provoked some at-1 at-1 tacks. In yesterday's fight it is as ; serted an armed force invaded Aroer-j Aroer-j ican territory and that this party was I repulsed. ! Officials Puzzled. Officials hero frankly are puzzled j over the border situation. General Car-: Car-: ranza has directed Genera! Jacinto Tre-j Tre-j vino to make a thorough investigation. Until authentic information is obtained 1 as to the cause of the raias the policy of the American government will be unchanged, un-changed, and while raiders will be driven off, American troops will not be permitted to cross into Mexico in pursuit. pur-suit. The war department today received word that there was some doubt of the identity of the Mexicans captured yesterday yes-terday near Marfa, Tex., and that the group was being taken to El Paso to learn whether Genera Raoul Madero and staff were among them, as reported. report-ed. Should it develop that General Ma dero is really in the group, he and his staff will be released aa soon as the formalities of the immigration authorities authori-ties are complied with. Dispatches from General Villa's headquarters head-quarters here Bay he has issued orders to all his commanders along the border tbat any soldiers who participate in any trouble shall be "held strictly acoiint-able. acoiint-able. ' ' Thirty Persons Killed. Thirty persons are reported to have been killed when thousands of shots 1 were fired in the streets of Cananea, ! Mexico, Thursday afternoon. No for-j for-j oigners appears to have been among the i killed. Thirty American women are reported re-ported fleeing in automobiles from Cananea to the border. "The Carranza forces which arrived at Cananea at noon on the 23rd," said a state department announcement today, (based on official dispatches, "evacu- ated the town at 7 o'clock in the morn- iug of the same day. It is also report-. report-. ed that during the afternoon thousands I of shots were fired in the streets and I that thirty persons were killed. Thirty American women have left Cananea m automobiles for the border. "The department lias been informed that General Maytorena of the Villa forces intends to send u garrison to i Cananea. ' ' The state department was advised that representations made to General (Continued on Page Eleven) i |