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Show RAID UPON CHIHUAHUA. Pancho Villa probably expected the people of Chihuahua to aid him when he made his desperate attack last Friday Fri-day night. If so he was sadly mistaken, mis-taken, for no matter how much dislike dis-like is felt for the f'arranza government govern-ment the constitutionalist troops were too numerous, too well armed and too well handled for a successful uprising when the bold bandit dashed into the town. Consequently the Villistas were roughly used and those who escaped with their lives may consider themselves them-selves lucky. The fact that the attack at-tack was made, however, is highly significant, sig-nificant, showing, as it does, that the Mexican government as at present constituted con-stituted has not the power to rid the republic of the marauders. It is therefore idle to talk of the Mexican regulars policing the border and preventing forays into the United States when they are unable to protect the capital city of a large state from invasion, True, many of the outlaws were killed and the prisoners taken are being court-martialed and shot, but we fail to understand how it happened that such a large body of- horsemen could approach Chihuahua City without their advance being noted and reported. Surely General Trevioo'a scouts, if he had any such parties out, should have como upon the outlaws before they reached their objective point. As it is, Trevino is being congratulated hy the de facto officials in Mexico City upon his victory, when he ought to be censured for negligence in allowing the fight to happen, for with anything like equal numbers nnrl ammunition, it is certain the Villistas would have annihilated the constitutionalists. Under the existing conditions we do not see how it is going to be possible to withdraw the forces ofGeneral Pershing Per-shing from Mexico until tho do facto government shows some evidence of its ability to protect the Mormon colonies and the American towns and ranches on the bonier. The people of this country coun-try would not stand for another Columbus Co-lumbus raid. For this reason it is probable prob-able that tho national guard organizations organiza-tions strung along the in t er national boundary lino will be retained in the government service much longer than generally expected by those who have followed the course of events. |