Show FIRST MOVE MO VE MADE TO WITHDRAW I 1 I PERSHING Start to Occupy Territory Where U. U S. S Men Are By Stuart Godwin International 1 News New Service Staff Stiff Correspondent VASHI WASHINGTON D. D C C. Jan IE The Thc The first move o toward preparing prep for tho withdrawal of ot the Pershing column was made today In accordance will willi tho the tacit plan already agreed upon b by the thc war ar department and General Ca Car Car- ranza dc tie facto troops started moving movin In large numbers today toda to lp CC the territory where here General PershinG's men now no 11 arc c. c Official reports reached the state to de de- toda today that Carran Carranza soldiers under General Dieguez have V reached Torreon already en cn route toutI to tho the territory they will bo ho required to 10 protect The administration will insist In in- that sufficient troops troop b hA ready to close in behind tho the American column columnas columna a as It Is withdrawn 1 Gra gradually on account ac D-C. count of tho the American and other foreign torI for tor- I eign eln Interests In tho the vicinity They I fear the rebel activity of northwestern l Mexico will sweep to tho the northwest unless adequate measures aro are taken to prevent It FLETCHER TO MEXICO Permitting tho the report of the mOvement movement move move- ment meat of or tho the soldiery to be be- como Come public toda today In is the first t official admission that It I Is the Immediate In Intention In In- of tho administration to bring brine the Pershing b column back to the hot bar der Announcement of tion that tho tito troops bo ho withdrawn rawn Is la expected later today after tho final Hession In New York of tho the American Mexican Joint commission It Is probable that Ambassador or Henry P. P Fletcher will bo be sent to his hll post In Mexico the troops troop are out of Mexico to take tako up directly with General Carranza Carranza- the settlement of ot th the border patrol and the protection ol of I American lives and property In territory terri tent tory under control The possibility of oC tho the recognition of or Villa a as a n revolutionary leader Is still as aa strong It was admitted today Officials here today were wera still set set-I- concerned over o the death of ot Luis dAntin tho former American diplomat who died led suddenly at San Luis Lois Potosi while accompanying Elisco Arredondo Acting on the firm belief of or his hla wife and her mother that dAntin Is not lead del but has been spirited awa away because because be be be- cause ho knew too much about the arms smuggling lIn sch scheme mo recently uncovered tin un- covered the state to department today dispatched to Its representatives at San Luis Potosi Mexico City and Quere- Quere taro Instructions ns to rush every scrap cr p of information on his death DENIES MURDER o Arredondo today todal denied all intimations that dAntin wa was mur mur- dered Tho The Mexican embassy today received from him tho following f dIe patch Mexico City Jan 14 To H.-To To R. R P Denegri In charge of the Mexican em embassy embassy em bassy bass Deny the malicious st statements state t- t ments published In the tho press to tho the death of oC Mr Ir Luis Juls dAntin If It Sn San Luis Potosi of congestion of or th thi brain which became fatal by reason of a cardiac lesion from front which ho suffered suf ut as aR shown by the tho declarations of ot Drs Gonzales and nd Amerena who at attended attended attended at- at tended him and who signed the certificate cate of his death In the civil registry which was s ns necessary In ord order r to obtain a Do burial bunal permit |