Show TROOPS SENT TO TU PROTECT TEL EL PASO REGIMENT OF INFANTRY AND ANDONE ANDONE ANDONE ONE OF INFANTRY ORDERED TO TEXAS TEXAS TEXAS' BORDER CITY Raids Expected to Follow Breaking Bleaking Up of Villa Forces Into Small Bands and Action Taken as Precautionary Precautionary Precautionary Pre Pre- cautionary Measure V Washington The The activity of ot General Gen Gen- General General eral Villas Villa's forces in northern Mexico Mexico Mexico Mex Mex- ico is being watched here with considerable considerable considerable con con- interest According to official oUi- oUi c cial al Information he has ordered a general withdrawal of ot his forces toward toward toward to to- ward Juarez the purpose apparently being to transfer them to Sonora Villa Y agency gency here heie emphatically ly y contradicted reports that the mobilization mobilization of Villa troops at Juarez had any sinister asp aspect ct with respect to relations with the United States As Asa a u. precaution pre however Acting Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary Breckenridge of the war depart depart- ment fter a conference with President President dent Wilson order ordered d the Seventh infantry infantry in in- infantry fantry and the Fourth field artillery regiments from Galveston to strengthen strength strength- en the garrison alt ait El EI Paso laso Texas bringing its full strength to three thi-ee regiments of Infantry a regiment of cavalry twenty-eight twenty pieces of artillery a total of about men In Ia the district east and west of El ElPaso ElPaso ElPaso Paso Major General Funston has in inan all an about men while in the vicinity of or Brown Brownsville ville he has men The Twenty-eighth Twenty infantry has been let at Galveston and may maybe maybe maybe be ordered to San Antonio Texas so 50 as to be available at either Brownsville Brownsville Browns Browns- ville or El Paso as circumstances may require Officials here do not anticipate any lawlessness or outbreaks in or near El Paso but in view of the fact that Villas Villa's forces were reported io to be breaking up into small bands border raids were considered consider d not unlikely tc ic occur General Villa it is understood intends intends intends in in- tends to concentrate his men in Sonora Sonora Sonora So So- nora and wage vage vigorous warfare against General Calles the Carranza commander |