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Show CARRANZA TROOPS PURSUING VILLA BANDIT BANDS1 CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, Sept.! 21, via Fl Paso Junction, Sept. 22. Car- : ranza troops are pursuing the band of i Villistas which attacked Chihuahua i City last Saturday southward, according j to official announcement here today. The : Villistas are reported passing along the road to Jimenez, southwest of Chihuaiiua Chihua-iiua City, lianchers arriving report Villa's Vil-la's forces were discouraged at their failure to obtain loot promised by Villa when he captured the city. j Reports from the district through which the band is passing, it was given out, say Villa has lost a considerable prestige because of failure of the attack. at-tack. Prisoners taken by Villa, who have returned, say Villa's plan was to surround sur-round the palace during the Independence Indepen-dence day celebration, kill General Jacinto Ja-cinto Trevino, commandant at' Chihuahua Chihua-hua City, and his stall', and to disorganize disor-ganize Hie narrison. Villa last was reported in the Sierra dc la Silla district, near Santa Vsabel. General Trevino 's wound in the arm, received during the Villa tight of Saturday, was healed sufficiently to permit per-mit him to discard the sling which he jhas been wearing since he was wounded. |