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Show MORMONS COMING OUT WITH TROOPS UNDER PERSHING EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 27 American troons of Major General Pershing's punitive expedition tramped along the high road leading from Colonia Dublan to the border today on the first leg of the march from Mexico; where they went in pursuit of Francisco Villa. Infantry, cavalry, artillery and motor trucks moved along the tree-lined highway, high-way, which winds across the plateau overlooking the Casas Grandes valley, like tho old prairie schooners of the days of forty-nine moved across the plains of the sunset trail. Tonight the troops were encamped along the road with the head of the column resting near Hirsch's Hole, twenty miles north of the Mormon colony, where General Pershing Per-shing has made his field headquarters since the expedition ceased its pursuit of Villa and his band of followers, arrivals ar-rivals at the border side. The last reveille at the field headquarters head-quarters was blown before dawn today, and, by sunrise, the advance guard of the expeditionary forces was well on tho way to the border, according to Americans who came from the front late today on truck trains to Columbus, N. M. Will Ride in Autos. General Pershing and his staff were expected to be among the last to leave the field headquarters, and will ride to the first night's encampment in automobiles auto-mobiles with the rear guard, these arrivals ar-rivals said. The long march to the Mexican-American border will be resumed re-sumed tomorrow,1- it -was' said. The Associated Press was the first to inform General Pershing of the formal for-mal order for the "withdrawal of his column col-umn today and he immediately made a change in his plans for the exodus, the soldiers reported tonight upon their arrival ar-rival here. Instead of establishing a field base at Ojo Federico, forty miles from the border, as was originally planned, there to await the formal order or-der for withdrawal, General Pershing was said to have arranged to establish his temporary field headquarters at Las Paloraas lakes, seven miles south of the border, where he would hold a general review of them before they made the last lap of the march into Columbus. The actual crossing of the border would not occur, it was predicted tonight, until later next week. i Mormons Coming Out. Following in the wake of the troops were hundreds of refugees, forming a motley hegira unlike anything seen on the border of the two repubbes. Prosperous Pros-perous Mormon families were riding in comfortable farm wagons or in small motor cars; Mexicans rode in carriages, on horses, mules, burros and on the motor mo-tor lorries of the expeditionary forces, while hundreds of the native and Chinese Chi-nese residents of the district being evacuated tramped through the deep dust which had been mulched bv tho feet of hundreds of troops. All of these refugees looked behind them with a fear of Villa and his followers, for they had heard rumors of threats purported pur-ported to have been made by the Mexican Mex-ican leader that he would kill all who had .served the American troops in any way. At Columbus a camp has been laid out and tents were being pitched late today tax one thousand refugees. This camp is one mile from the army camp at Columbus, and one part of it will be arranged as an asylum for the 200 Chinese who are coming out with the expedition. The first of these refugees refu-gees were expected to arrive there early Monday. Mormons living in El Paso and in other parts of the southwest were making every effort tonight to find . temporary homes for their exiled peoples. |