Show I is s. s TROOPS BATTLE MEXICANS Towns Arm Spirit of 4 47 7 Revived 25 Outlaws Are Killed i American merican Soldier Wounded Rangers County Officers and Citizens Aid in in Fight Aviation Used to Locate Bandits Rounding aUp UP p Desperadoes Who Tortured Two Mento Men Mento A i l to Death By United Press BROWNSVILLE Texas Sept 4 The The battle between leans jeans and Mexicans near near Hidalgo was still in progress late and at least twenty-five twenty Mexicans A are reported to been een killed The he forces are firing across the Rio Grande a front of a mile and a half The only American hit was Private John Salvini of Troop bird hird Cavalry who was wounded in the hip A big force of rs rs s county COUlty officers and citizens is aiding a troop of cavalry r r. Captain J. J C. C Cr McCo McCoy g Texas fexas was verging dangerously near the spirit tonight t. t 4 Staid id citizens who had regarded with comparative t ive calm alin the i g cs s committed b by unorganized banditry within the states state's irs rs rs during the last few weeks joined their more neighbors in protesting the invasion in l of American soil b by in the uniform of Constitutionalist t soldiers I the protests were taking the form of action rather than thallon con con- ont on- on t tiye I CIVILIAN ARMIES ORGANIZED Small civilian armi armies s have haves sprung rung u up everywhere e along the thelt lt ning ar area a. a Country officers were abetting r rather ther than dis- dis l g these warlike moves Ranchers and townspeople alike ito to regard the new developments in the light of an all' actual t Mexicans to accomplish the plan of San D Diego r ego a r chimerical r i for oi if f the s 's rn irn i aft att of the United States fat s and annexing nt the southern half is is to Mexico w with th the northern portion as a negro republic buffer state the Pie two distinct clashes between uniformed uniform d Mexicans and i ican kan an soldiers along the Rio Hio Grande today together with the that the river is raP rapidly idlY falling and rendering ingress easier laced the whole border on the alert Sentries are posted points about all the settlements and ranchers made every pr preparation for expected attack United States soldiers have taken positions of strategic value f few v places although there is a disposition on the part of i officers to make no move that can be construed as j SOLDIERS PURSUE FIENDS Small mall detachments of soldiers are still pursuing the scattered Mexicans who have invaded the state in the last few and a particular effort is made to round the bandits who two twp Americans a few v. miles iles nor north th of here late Th Thursday subjecting them to horrible torture The y avi aviation tion squad for the first time in American military y f is playing an Important role in the operations The avi- avi have lve succeeded in locating man many small smaIl bands of Mexicans Ii had d el eluded ded the soldiers in the brush but as yet et bomb dro drop drop- has teas not been resorted to Officers ref refused l ed to state tonight what steps would be ta taken en fling ding an official report to Mexican authorities on oil the killing yen ven Mexican soldiers near Madera in Hidalgo county this frig ing These were part of a band of twelve who typo were surl sur- sur l Uby Rby by American soldiers The ille others escaped 1 The he exchange of shots across the river near the Cavazos ng gig g be between a band of rang rangers ers and fifty or sixty Mexican r rs 15 is also regarded as asa a matter for investigation b by M Mexican x can rhes It was intimated however that nothing officially l be done ne on this side until the facts had been placed before at Washington ashington I I |