Show fUR FORCES l OF f PR HIN Nil IN U I II I Tho Thousands Cheer When 1 Soldiers March From Mexico Into Columbus 87 Br International News to lo The Tho Telegram COLU COLUMBUS IBUS N. N M. M F Feb b. b 6 6 Cheered by thousands of New Mexicans cans General Pershing's expedition expeditionary ary forces which cross crossed cd into Mexico March 15 1916 to capture Villa dead or alive alivo marched back Into the United United Unit Unit- ed States today even E thousand khaki clad veterans vet yet crana bran erans hardened by more than ten months' months exposure to the hardships of or Jh Ile he M t land crossed to American soil soU while wh flags flats waved and andi i Columbus citizens shouted wildly The gravity of oC the international situation situa situ tion had stirred d the thc p v tt D fx it vt thousands thousands' of ot New Mexicans 1 and they poured into Columbus all day Sunday to give the troops troop a hearty welcome The troops broke camp at Las Palomas Pa Pa- Palomas lomas four our miles south Bouth of or the tho border border bor bor- der early this morning There were ero exactly 10 men in iii the tho force that I crossed into and trucks and wagons transported their equipment rh They y included the Fifth Firth Seventh Thirteenth and Eleventh cavalry cavalry alry regiments the sixth Sixteenth Seventeenth and Twenty fourth infantry infantry try artillery batteries' batteries B nand and C of or orthe the Sixth regiment and the tho First battalion battalion bat bat- of or the tho Fourth field regiment signal corps troops corps and antI field hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- Nos 3 and 7 The Fifth Seventh Eleventh and Thirteenth arc are sched scheduled to march to El Paso under present pres pres eat ent orders from Washington Included in the crowd that gathered in Columbus were many array army officers officers' officers officers' cers cers' wives who came from distant points pointe to meet their husbands |