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Show U. S. 10 KEEP UP PURSUITOF VILLA DENIAL OF REPORTS THAT AMERICAN AMERI-CAN SOLDIERS MIGHT BE WITHDRAWN WITH-DRAWN FROM MEXICO. No Intention of Changing the Original Orders Given General Funston, a Trainload of Supplies Being Shipped South by Rail. Washington. Secretary Lansing has most emphatically denied persistent reports that the American troops might be withdrawn from Mexico shortly, regardless of developments in the hunt for Villa. Both Mr. Lansing and Secretary Baker of the war department indicated indicat-ed on Friday that there was no present pres-ent intention of changing the original orders given General Funston. News from the border that a train-load train-load of supplies, shipped by private firms, had left Juarez Thursday for Casas Grandes and Pearson, where they will be available to General Pershing, caused satisfaction here. Although the army authorities were not the actual shippers it was believed the practical result would be the same. Even without further action by or concessions from Carranza, such use of the railways, some officials think, may meet the needs of the United States without causing embarrassment to the de facto government. Secretary Baker indicated Thursday that, in the present status of the Mexican Mex-ican campaign the motor truck lines from Columbus are to be the principal artery for supplies, with whatever use may be gained from the railways as merely supplementary. As far as can be gleaned from the meagre dispatches from the front and from official Mexican sources, the pursuit pur-suit of Villa, as far as the Americans are concerned, has reached a stage of marking time until the question of supplies transportation is solved. |