| Show PLIGHT OF Do o So S o TROOPS IN BANDIT CHASE GRA GRAVE VE AND MORE MEN RUSHED TO FRONT 1 BREVITY i OF I NEWS WORRIES FUNSTON Communication of Columbus Again I Is Cut ut Position of f Raiders Is Unknown I Y VILLA L A TRAIL mAlL LOST f P Parral Rep Reports State That Two Americans Were Killed and Forty Mexicans Were Slain SAN ANT ANTONIO ON lOt April 15 Two American soldiers and forty Mexicans were killed d in the fight at Parral General Pershing re re- p rt d to General Funston top tO- tO p The attack was described a as k General Pe Pershing's report of the fighting stated t that at the force foree engaged was a part of Colonel Browns Brown's Tenth colored caval cavalry y There was nb no indication in indication in- in In inthe the report made here to tonIght tonight tonight to- to night by General Funston that Major Tompkins was in charge of 01 the the- thede de detachment de- de t as s h heretofore believed The outbreak occurred when a small party of American cavalrymen cavalryman n wen went into Parral for supplies The soldiers were were unarmed They were fired upon without provocation and led fled pursued by Mexicans A detachment of the Tenth cavalry later entered Parral to recover the dead bodies of 01 two of their men killed when wen the they hoped to obtain food supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies opened fire with a machine gun when a mob rushed the detachment About forty-eight forty Mexicans were killed and between seventy and eighty eight wounded The number of 01 Americans wounded In addition to 10 the two troopers troop troop- ers killed was not announced although the wounded were said to be in grave I danger from Insufficient medical at at- at Carranza Troops in Mob According to the official announce announcement anno ment here Carranza troops troops' were In Inthe Inthe the Uie mob The Tenth cavalry recovered the tho bodies of 01 their two dead and With with- drew The foraging party returned to the tha camp and reported the Incident with the result that the Uie main force turned on the pursuing Mexicans scattering them with a a. sharp fire Actually two reports were received from Pershing General Funston stated one via Columbus Co Co- lumbus and the other by way of 01 Chihuahua Chihuahua Chihuahua Chi Chi- where it was relayed by Consul Consul Con Con- sul Letcher Both messages were dated this morning morning morn morn- morning ing from General Pershing's headquarters tore at There was no ex explanation explanation ex- ex of df the delay in filing the ac ao- ao counts General Funston has rushed reinforcements reinforcements rein rein- to it was given ghen out ut tonight after he made public the Pershing reports It was als also alo learned that the land wire wire from from Namiquipa to Columbus has been cut again by Mex Mex- Some officers at headquarters regarded the cutting of the wire as In Indication indIcation in- in of hostility by along the line of 01 communication al although although at- at though there was admittedly nothing to Indicate whether the wire was snipped by bandits or hostile de dc facto troops beyond control of their com com- manders Villa Lost in Shuffle Villa was lost lost In the shuffle tonight I None gone of 01 the reports mentioned the fugItive fugitive fug fug- bandit and the latest official re report report report re- re port port of his whereabouts was a brief official statement from General Per Per thing dated March 30 after the battle of 01 Guerrero By Dy this time Villa ma mabe may maybe maybe be south couth of the Durango border or Inthe in inthe inthe the mountains in southern Chihuahua state according to Funston General Funston n concealed the strength of the reinforcements rushed southward He intimated however that strong detachments detachments detachments detach detach- ments already have arrived in the vi vicinity vicinity vi- vi of 01 Parral capable of taking carof care car of themselves come what may as a a. result of the Parral clash or the Carranza Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza request for withdrawal Word of the cutting of the wire came from Major Sample at El Paso Aside from stating the wire has been cut Sample had no further information n. n headquarters officials were anxious to learn earn the location of the break to learn some Indication of the position of 01 the raiders It was waa ann announced that several Continued on pago 10 T PL PLIGHT OF U. 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S I Continued from page 1 new detachments already sent lent into Mexico will not be used merely to guard the line of communication but butwill butwill butwill will rush forward to add strength to General Pershing's command No further further further fur fur- ther Inroads will be made on the border border border bor bor- der forces however Funston is known to have made up his mind on this point deciding that if any more soldiers are needed for Pershing's aid they will have to be taken from the guard along the line of communications Chagrined by the brevity of Pershing's Pershing's Per Per- shing's report after four days of anxious anxious ious bus waiting the major general declared declared de de- de- de dared sharply he ha had rushed forward a demand that Pershing furnish further further further fur fur- ther details He expressed great relief however to learn that first reports of many cavalrymen being killed were ex ex- EL PASO Texas April 15 Carran Carran Carranza za officials here tonight stated that Villa either Is dead or has escaped be beyond beyond beyond be- be yond the American military zone Therefore the United States troops should withdraw from Mexico General Gavira of Juarez stated that ha he had no word of Villas Villa's whereabouts for several days American army chiefs here declared they do not know where Villa is and that most of their reports of his flight south have come from second sE or or third hand Mexican sources The censorship screens the movements movements move move- ments of the tho advanced American columna columns columns col col- col- col south of Parral Seven who we we themselves up tonight to General Gener l GaVira Gavira Gavira Ga Ga- vira commandant In Juarez stated that when they deserted Villa at over a week ago ago the bandit leaders leader's wounded knee was badly swollen and giving him great pain |
