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Show More U. S. Cavalry Troops Sent Across the Border, but Recalled From Futile Chase. Punitive Expedition Is Continuing Hunt for Gang; Country Is Difficult of Access. MARFA, Texas, Aug! 23. The American punitive expedition will be ordered out of Mexico within the next twenty-four hours, according accord-ing to reliable information here tonight. to-night. . The orders for withdrawal have not yet been received, however, how-ever, Colonel Langhorne said tonight. to-night. The final dash after the Renteria gang will begin at dawn tomorrow, , it was said. The cavalry now in the vicinity of the homes of Jesus and Apolino Renteria and Jesus Marques, three leaders of tho gang. If the bandits are not found tomorrow tomor-row it was said the order for withdrawal with-drawal could be expected by Monday. Mon-day. MARFA, Texas, Aug. 23. Eight bandits, ban-dits, believed to be part of the Jesus Renteria gang, which kidnaped Aviators Peterson and Davis, have been captured by Mexican federal troops at Coyame, Chihuahua, according to a report to Colonel George T. Langhorne from Mexican Mex-ican Consul Cosme Bongoechea at Presidio Pre-sidio tonight. The bandits were captured in a dance hall, after the federal troops had surrounded sur-rounded it, the report says. The troops had marched to Coyamie from Cluhuahua City. The Mexican consult 's telegram- snid the information came from General Antonio Pruneda, in the field near Coyame. The general also said he was returning to Cuchillo Parado from tho vicinity of Coyame, where he was going go-ing in pursuit of other bandits. Pruenada also asked that American aviators reconnoiter the country near Las Palomas, Chihuahua, where Villa bandits had been reported. MEXICAN TROOPS ARE COOPERATING. Tho reported capture of the bandits is taken lo confirm earlier reports that the Mexican federals were cooperating with the American expeditionary forces. It was believed hore thnt the bandits would be executed at Chihuahua City after court martial, as General Dicguez has been conducting a vigorous campaign cam-paign against banditry in Chihuahua. The American punitive expedition to- (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) Mfx'.ro, while 'he T'niversal criticised t:.e M-i -an poI l.-y of a:-nco. The .Mexican Hr.iM .'p;orpI the inabi:-it inabi:-it y ji M..-:.h'a na u fijrz-ft int'-rr.ii! !;; t:vi . wipii confronted by inu-rr.atior'.ai dif:lcui-;h-h and cri:ici.s-'l the failure ! t'.ie government gov-ernment to confer with .Mexican people who do not want war. MEXICAN PAPERS DISCUSS CHANCES OF INTERVENTION WASr-ri.VGTO.V, Av.s. 7Z. Possibility of American intnrvemion In Mexico is i freely discussed by the Mexico City newspapers, news-papers, according to Information reaching i officials of the state department. Par- I tlcular interest was manifested here today to-day In one article appearing in the "A. B. C." which Is said to have created some- 1 thing of a sensation in the southern re- public. ' Thiri article points out in detail seven I ways fn which the, United States miht i intervene and dlsnusses each at length, i The seven methods enumerated are: I Complete invasion, which the paper ad-. 1 mits would result In victory for the United States. Partial invasion by seizure of frontier posts and customs houses, which It said would weaken the Carranza government, cause a spreading of the rebellion, dishearten dis-hearten the constitutionalists and cause "Carranza and his system to topple like a pack of cards." Aiding or recognizing some rebel group. Naming of a group of Mexicans and assisting as-sisting them In the formation of a government. gov-ernment. Withdrawal of recognition from the present government, which, the paper ! said, would be tantamount to recognition of the rebels. Presenting an ultimatum to the govem-ment govem-ment requiring assurances that the rebel-: rebel-: lion would be ended In a definitet period; payment of foreign claims within a prescribed pre-scribed time; resumption of foreign debt service and final disposition of the petroleum petro-leum question. The paper said the present government could not give these guarantees. guaran-tees. Acting as arbiter between the contending contend-ing Mxian factions. Nothing could come of arbitration, the paper said, adding that the present government gov-ernment would "deem it beneath its dignity dig-nity to enter into any negotiations with its enemy." "Wo do not share the ' views of certain cer-tain skeptics that intervention is inevitable," inevita-ble," said the paper. "The statement of A mbassador Fletcher favorable to the Mexican government may perhaps force the United States to extend for a while the policy of 'watchful waiting,' or possibly possi-bly stimulate our government, realizing that It is a matter of life and death for It and, what is more Important,, for the nation, to change its policy. However i this may he. the threat of Intervention Is at our doors." Bonillas Is Optimistic. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 3.--Ambassador Bonillas, in denying today a rumor that he was to be recalled by the Mexican government, said he was optimistic regarding re-garding the future relations between Mexico and the United States. He de-clared de-clared the American people wanted no more war, adding that when they under-i under-i stood the situation In Mexico they would , stop criticism. j IISl TROOPS MTGHJ1DITS More United States Cavalrymen Cav-alrymen Cross Border, but Are Recalled. (Continued From Tage One.) day pontimu d its mri-':h toward its objective, ob-jective, which was a new iield base that is beiiitf e.st;i blislied. It was tlie first time I he entire expedition has marched in one column, a.s the troops have tecn opi-nit in;,; in separate columns to run dirvn reports of bandits' Joeution. Scrnits are searrhiu in the mountain c;uijo;ih ;is tlif-y nuirch, but it "was admitted ad-mitted hero that the belief is that the bandits are further soutli. The troops will Hpend tlieir first Hunday in Mexico Mex-ico in the saddle, as it is planned to make- a foreed march to reach the new bano tomorrow. YANKEE TROOPS IN SECOND CHASE ARE ORDERED HOME KO i'ASO, Texas, Auir. 23. Of the llirce cavalry detachments "which were on Mexican soil today in search of marauding bandit gnns, hut one re-mniiit'd re-mniiit'd below tlie border tonight. Two troops ot' tliu iSe'inth cavalry, which were sent across today, were ordered withdrawn a few hours later. ' 'Tho mission for which the troops wore ordered into Mexico could not Wi accomplished, ' ' ( ieneral Erwiu said, "so t have ordered the troops to return. re-turn. They probably will reach their (itaiions tonight." Troops I'l and U of tho Seventh cavalry cav-alry made up tho column Hint crossed the border this morning under orders from (leeoral Erwin, following an investigation in-vestigation of the raid yesterday afternoon. after-noon. The detachment was in command of Major Adolphus W. Jioffc, who is in command of the. Kl 'aso-Fort Hancock border patrol. Troop I'l was commanded by Captain Lathan Collins, and Lieutenant, Lieu-tenant, tlobart. tiny commanded Troop U. The former troops crossed the line at Kort Hancock, fifty miles southeast south-east of Kl Paso, on the Southern Pacific, Pa-cific, railroad, and the latter at Fabens, thirty-two miles from here, in the same direction. Fabens is opposite tho country in -which Francisco Villa, Felipe Angeles and Martin Lopez made their headquarters headquar-ters before they attacked Juarez' ty June It, and over which they were chased in rout by the cavalry brigade under command of Colonel S. R. H. Tompkins, which was sent to disperse them. Andreas G. Garcia, Mexican consul general here, announced tonipht that a rei'iment of Mexican federal troops would arrive at Juarez tomorrow morn-ini; morn-ini; on a special train from Chihuahua City for the purpose of helping to rid the border district of Mexican bandits. The Mexican ' country south of Fort Hancock is under tho .jurisdiction of Con'-rril I''ranci.:rj Gonzales, command. ;r at Juaro?., biu tiiere are no cavalry troops in the Juarez garrison now. Companies C and U of t'ae Nineteenth infantry, which is stationed hero for border patrol dutv, were ordered 10 Fort Ilan'-oi'k and Fabens this morning morn-ing to replace tiie border patrol of cavalry cav-alry troops that crossed the line. the third detachment, which crossed the Kio Grande, in the liig Fiend country, coun-try, in search of lost army mules, returned re-turned with the missing animals. BANDIT TRAILS COLD; OUTLAWS PROBABLY SAFE MAR. FA, Texas, Aug. 23. Pursuit of Mexican bandits by the American punitive puni-tive expedition 1 continuing couth from the point in Mexico where an American camp has been established, it was announced an-nounced today. The trails are not con-aedered con-aedered "hot," however, and as the banditti ban-ditti have reached the mountain fastnesses It In feared they have escaped. Captain Truman Uoudlnut, commanding a detachment of the Klghth cavalry at river base, croHxed to Mexico late yesterday yes-terday to recover ix pack mules lont on the trail when the punitive expedition crossed the river and met a Carranza detachment de-tachment in a canyon south of the border. bor-der. The Carranza commander stopped the detachment, which consisted of twenty-American twenty-American troops, and asked Captain Boudfnot where he was guinjy. Captain Houdlnot explained that he was searching for lost mules in the mountain canyons Cummings May Remain. After having told William Cummings, the British charge d'archives in Mexico City, that his presence In Mexico was deorned "incompatible with the state in which relations between this government and Great Britain have stood and do now eland," the Mexican foreign of lice in understood to have relented and Mr. Cummings Cum-mings expects to remain in the Mexican capital. Information reaching Washington today to-day indicated that Mr. Cummlnga probably proba-bly would not be permitted to exercise any official functions or to make any representations rep-resentations to the Mexican government, and continued the search. He found the mules and returned to the American side. MEXICAN SOLONS DEFEAT PROPOSAL FOR CO-OPERATION WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. The Mexican chamber of deputies In secret meeting yesterday yes-terday defeated a resolution to appoint a committee to cooperate with President Carranza, the senate and the supreme court in forming a policy on International questions and particularly the petroleum question, according to advices reaching Washington today. The chamber also defeated de-feated another resolution calling for an interrogation of President Carranza on relations between the United States and Mexico. The senate passed a resolution instructing the committee on foreign relations re-lations to investigate the cause and character char-acter of the international crisis and to make recommendations. The border situation continued the particular par-ticular topic of news in the Mexican press of yesterday and it was said that the governors gov-ernors of Coahulla, Sinaloa and Mexico, the labor unions and the federal deputies had tendered their support to President Carranza, Denying that there was an agreement between the United States and Mexico permitting the forces of either country to cross the border in pursuit of bandits, the Mexican newspapers said the agreement agree-ment reached between Generals Scott and Obregon would be published. The Monitor Repuhlicano asserted that the punitive expedition unjust and reprehensible, but that it did not relieve the Mexican government from its share of responsibility. 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