Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-04-21 | Page 3 | Pershing Holds Forces Strictly on the Defensive

PERSHING HOLDS FORCES STRICTLY ON THE DEFENSIVE SAX ANTONIO. TxfW, April L'0. - - U'hl In Major t if-iuM ul l luu'h I S- ri t. chief of fltnff, in tiiiifhij; to tlie bonier us the personal envoy of Sec rotary of " r Ma Up i'. Ornenil IVrpliinR Is holdliiK fort-en In Melro In what practically Itf a delcuplve poHllion. No dovelopinenln of Rro:it Importnne we if (old of In reports received today at General l-niHton's headqu;rtei-R and It was evident that the pursuit of 'llla had been halted. Unofficial reports wern that Villa had mnde his wav nouth into )uran-ro. )uran-ro. altliouRli official Mexlcnii atlvh-eH continued con-tinued to Indicate that officials at the war department In Mexico City yet Knvts t-ome cieilcoco lo l lie nlory that the handlt chieftain had died of his wounds at Borne point south of Cuslhulrachle. Oeneral Kunnton forwarded to tht war j department another lonK report from General Gen-eral )'eihin on general cuudlllons In that par l of the country through which his troops had moved. This and other reports have neon sent to Washington i-oon as received and uniiv officers here declare that Secretary Maker Is well Informed In-formed on the df:velupinentn about 1'arral a nd other places where the troops ha ve cone and on tlie relations that exiM he-tween he-tween I hem and the Mexicans, both civilian civ-ilian and military. General Kunston did not make puMlc the facts coninlned In General 1'eishiiiK's report received today, other than to say that It pictured a state of frightful destitution des-titution and reflected the apathy of the poor towards the American forces. The attitude of the t'overument forces was described as lacking In friendliness and co-operaion.