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Show JUAREZ THREATENED REBELS SERVE NOTICE THAT THEY WILL ENTER CITY, EVEN THROUGH BLOOD AND FIRE. Many Residents Flee Across River, Where Boys in Blue Are on Guard and In Case of Firing Over Line May Attack Mexicans. El Paso, Texas. This city speedily, took on a martial appearance Monday, night upon announcement that a telei phone conference between Mexican Consul E. C. Llorente and Emiliq Campa, commanding the Vasquistas army at Bauche, regarding the faU of Juarez had terminated unsatisfaci tory. Six hundred United States troops of the Fourth cavalry and Eighteenth infantry, together with machine guns, were stationed at strategic points, although Colonel Steever stated that he had no instritc-tions instritc-tions to do other than protest should Mexican bullets be fired into American Ameri-can territory. ' Americans in Juarez responded promptly to the warning issued by United States Consul Edwards and crossed the Rio Grande to El Paso,' together with hundreds of Mexican non-combatants. These preparations were hastened by the report that Campa's troops already al-ready had begun their advance from Bauche. That the rebels intend to attack Juarez is indicated by a dispatch sent to Juarez by General Campa, Colonel Gomez and Major Loza, in which the statement is made, "If there is 'resistance 're-sistance offered, we will enter the city through blood and fire, if need be." |