Show BIG IG MEXICAN BATTLE KS IS EXPECTED TODAY r f By United Press EL PASO Tex Oct 30 Expecting Expecting an attack on the Carranza Carranza Carranza Car- Car ranza troop trains en rotte to Douglas Gen John J. J Pershing this afternoon noon ordered several hundred cavalry and infantry troops to take up along the railroad where it closely parallels the boundary west of here Hundreds of Villa soldiers have taken I up p positions on the Mexican side of the boundary as if It to attack the Carra Car Car- ra troops on American soil The troop trains trains' from Eagle Pass T Tex X going to reinforce the Carranza garrison at Agua Prieta Mexico opposite opposite op Douglas Ariz were due to pass through El EI Paso this evening i By United Press V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Oct 30 The The government gov gov- emm centered its attention to tonight to- to nigh night kon n rt a spot sot on i the Mexican Mexican-Ari zona zone line where American troops stood gu guard rd over the of th the town towns pf pf p Douglas t threatened by y tl th the fire of opposing M Mexican armies s grappling grap pling In fn one ne of the most d desperate sperate battles of ot th the war Attack Expected General Funston wired the war department depal department de- de pal that a night attack by the at Agua Prieta was was expected expect expect- ed cd By Dy Sund Sunday iy army officers ex expect expect ex- ex the ba battle tle to Q rage at its height rr r Villas Villa's army was reported this arr af- i rapidly closing In on th the Agua General Calles arr f emma commander withdrew raw his his' t behind entrEnch entrenchments of bathed wire and Five tro p trains trains' bringing a lo s soil to Agua Prieta were wre due to arrive tonight The war office ce advised 1 funston this afternoon after after- noon that it H t had word of a plot by to cross cros the border bordel at Columbus Co Co- Co- Co lumbus N. N M H. and wreck the railroad tb U delay arrival of ot the reinforcements until Villas Villa's army could attack the Hie garrison The Tho American troops were wat wet the border and flanks of Agua Prieta to prevent Villa from entering Ameri American American- an territory to attack the from front the rear Fear ot of this move was increased by re reports reports reports re- re ports that Villas Villa's main army was marching this afternoon on Agua Prieta from the east Ammunition was rushed today to General Calles One million r rounds the war department was advised were being sent Villa is reported well supplied with artillery War Var department reports state he has guns but his home homemade homemade homemade made shrapnel is believed defective detective U U. U S S. S Guards Border The American troops have hae ha ire eighteen guns gUM These will be trained on Villas Villa's Vii Vil las la's army if hl his shells fall into Douglas Doug Doug- las In General Davis' Davis command at Douglas are five infantry regiments the Seventh Eleventh Eighteenth Twentieth an and Twenty-second Twenty four batteries of the Sixth field artillery and eight troops of the Ninth cay cay- alry aIry DOUGLAS Ariz Oct 30 Prep Prep Preparations to 10 care for fugitives from Agua Prieta in a concentration camp at PirU Pirtleville three miles from this city were made by United States officials this afternoon when the continued to close In on Agua Prieta and its Carranza garri garrison garri- garri son General Davis gave permission for the fugitives to cross whenever their situation in Agua Agun Prieta becomes becomes be be- comes dangerous Most of them are old men women and children Three Villa taft staff officers conferred with the United States officers near near the international boundary at San Bernardino eighteen miles east of ot othere here late today and asked the Amer Amen to point out the border line Une so there would be no Inadvertent trespassing trespassing tres tree passing on Arizona soil Boll during the advance edvance Will March Sunday These Thee officers informed the Americans Ameri Amerl- cans cans' that they intended f 1 b camp at San Bernardino tonight and resume th the march on Agua Prieta Sunday While the scouts will surround the city George C C. Carothers s of ot the American Ameri Amen can state department is seeking permission permission permission per per- mission of ot the Mexicans to cross into San Bernardino and interview Villa for r the purpose of securing e liberation ra of the two twenty tf Americans ftc held j I prisoners by the Villa advance g guard ard thirty tb miles south of the border It Is agreed that the pending Hattie battle will probably mark the end of the Villa insurrection as the C are confident of ot victory and are well supplied with munitions At present Villa Is numerically superior The expected arrival of Carranza reinforcements reinforcements reinforcements rein rein- from Eagle Pass Pass Pass' will even this up The advance of the main Villa army anny has been slowed considerably and the two factions will possibly not come rome to grips before Sunday night All AU preliminary skirmishing has favorably to the Carran Carran- zista's |