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Show REPLY 10 , CfilZA WILL EE DELAYED Major General Hugh L. r Scott, Chief of Staff, Is Sent to the Border to Make Complete Report on the Military Problems Prob-lems Confronting the Punitive Expedition. FUNSTON REMAINS IN FULL COMMAND Report of Villa's Death Not Yet Confirmed; Border Citizens Show Deep Interest in Ultimatum Ulti-matum to Germany and Its Possible Effect on Mexican Situation. WASHINGTON, April 19. No decision decis-ion as to the withdrawal of American troops from Mexico is expected for f week or ten days, unless there are new outbreaks against the forces in Mex-' Mex-' ico to compel immediate action. This was made clear today when Secretary 1 Baker dispatched Major General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, to the border 1 as his personal representative to make a complete report on the military problems prob-lems confronting General Funston. i; The administration's final action on General Carranza 's suggestion that the expedition, be recalled probably will be based largely on what is shown in this report. General Scott, who left "Washington "Wash-ington tonight, hardly will be able to make the round trip and complete his -j observations in less than ten days. Secretary Baker said General Scott's mission would be to assemble complete information as to the border situation for the use of the department. He also will establish a personal touch with that situation for the secretary, which Mr. Baker has felt need of in advising the administration as to the military aspects of the Mexican question. General Scott Explains. General Scott himself explained that ho would be "the eyes of the secretary" secre-tary" on the border. Accompanied by v,s aide. Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Michie of the general Btaff, he will reach General Funston 's headquarters at San Antonio, Tex., next Friday evening. even-ing. Mr. Baker laid stress in his announcement announce-ment on the fact that General Funston is in supreme command of the border situation and expeditionary forceB, and will remain so. He said the department depart-ment fully approved every step General Gen-eral Funston had takcnr and that Gen- eral Seott was going only .because it f had seemed desirable to get a clearer ' view than was possible by means of official reports. Reply to Carranza. In the meantime state department officials of-ficials will Lake up consideration of what reply tlif y shall make lo the Carranza note urging the withdrawal of the American Ameri-can forces. Some questions Involved in that note can be worked out before the military situation finally is reported. Dispatches from the border or from Mexico City today contained no word of developments changing the situation. The expedition seeking Villa la at a standstill stand-still apparently, concentrated at points where General Pershing and General Funston believe they are best protected against whatever may come. The only messages received, the sufo-. sufo-. Fiance of which was made public, were j0' of a reassuring character. A consular f dispatch said General Pershing's desire to chance the location of his most ad- (Continued on Page Fourteen.) REPLY TO CARRARA WILL BE DELAYED (Continued from Page One.) vanced base near Parral had met -with no opposition by the Carranza military authorities. General Pershlnp Is understood under-stood to have desired to establish hie new base at such a point that commmunlca-tlon commmunlca-tlon with the rear would be less difficult. diffi-cult. Site Not Revealed. State department officials pointed out that while the site of this new base was not revealed, it was to be nearer than the old one to Parral, the town where the Americans were fired upon last week by Carranza soldiers or civilians. General Gutierrez, Carranza commander ot the district, was said to have sanctioned the chanyo. State, department reports from Chihuahua Chi-huahua told of the movement of Carranza Car-ranza troops from that section toward Parral. No explanation was fiiven. H was pointed out here, however, that these forces were under the direct command of General Gutierrez, whose friendliness to the Americans has been consistent. Some officials thought It possible the Carranza Car-ranza commander intended to replace the Parral forces said to have been involved in-volved in the attack on the Americans with those In which he had more confl- dence. ' There was no change durins the day In the diplomatic situation. No additional addi-tional communications from Mexico City reached the state department, either from Special Ag"ent Rodders or through , Kiiseo Arredondo, embassador deslgnata. Reports Officially Denied. Mr. Arredondo denied published rejiorta that he had received instructions from General Carranza to present a new de-1 de-1 mand for withdrawal of the troops or to press for an early reply to the note he presented last week. He called on Secretary Ianslns during the day to call attention to reported activities of Antonio An-tonio Villareai in American border towns toward fostering a new revolutionary movement in Mexico. Mr. A rredondo told the senretarv Villareai Vil-lareai was In hiding In Laredo, Texas, and that he was endeavoring to raise an expedition for an invasion of Mexico In support of Villa. Mr. Lansing directed that the attention of the department of justice be called to this matter. An indication of the intention of the war department to retain the present i forces on the border indefinitely, regard - less of whether the expedition into i Mexico is recalled, came In a call of Major General Leonard Wocd, commanding command-ing the department of the east, on Secretary Sec-retary Baker. The general was asked to come In order that Secretary Baker might be informed as to what effect upon the summer training camp movement in his department the continued absence of the forces now on the border would have. Plan Worked Out. He said a plan had been worked out under which the camps could be held as outlined by employing coast artillery troops to some extent in the training work. General Wood expects to have from 10. wu to 15.00 men under arms for training purposes during the year and Secretary Baker manifested deep Interest Inter-est in this movement. Reports from General Funston today indicated that the aviators with General Pershing were badly In need of new machines. ma-chines. Only three of the original equipment equip-ment with the troops remain and these are said to be in such condition that they cannot be used for more than a single lone flight each before undr-going undr-going thorough overhauling. Four additional addi-tional machines will arrive ot Columbus next Smmlay, bur wllj not he readv for use until I he following Tuesday. "Four other biplanes will be delivered next week. Message From Mexico City. The Mexican embaepy gave out a dispatch dis-patch today from Mexico City matin that General Dom Intro Arrit-ta bad i ported to the war office" there, disproving disprov-ing rumors published in the United Smies that he was not loyal to the do ; facto government. In fonne-flon with the I reported death of Villa, the message said : "General Obreeon has wired for the promptest confirmatory report regarding Villa's death from the search party, 'con-sltine 'con-sltine of two Mexican and one American Ameri-can offlrer, who are returning from the examlnai ion of the Kind It's reputed grave. The m InlM mt of wa r express's full confld.'nce In the auM man arid woman wom-an who claim to have mi reed Villa in his dying hours find to have burled him." Neither the ntate nor war departments had any additional rrportu regarding Villa's death nor anything to show who the American officer mentioned in the embassy dispatch might be. The report of Villa's death seamed a closed Incident Inci-dent In hoth departments Tt never has been reported directly to the war department, depart-ment, and state department moHsacfs from Chihuahua httvt; characterized the storv as mere rumor. I |