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Show MEN PREPAKiLU IO VUhN MEXICAN LINE INTO BATTLEFIELD. 1 Y2fAffjKL & tiitBt "" bj-hi-i!tijjsPlliKJJKt-i 'ill-" 1 RMERtCnti RRTILLEZYMEN GMD MUCM1SOLDtERS Qti TH"bqqd H CHeport from Major General Frederick FuiiHton to tliu war department on the border ultuntlou aibund no.aU and Airuu '11H l-rteu, an It exIsteU upon hU arrival at the formei, plnco tu tak command of the Alm-rlcu, forces did l.ofaMny unxuTy 'HI on the part of tlfb lutmlnl. ration for the jafety of Amerlci18 0 he border. While' Clensrol Kuiiiioii ru port" ,1 l t tho HI am attack by General Villa s force, on Rua lrla w,ui repuUeU with l.eayy losaea for th I V ! III" U lie "r idei til in HI that many bullets wore fallliiK Into the Arltona town ot Douglaa and that It would be wlae to grai t .merffenTy authority HI to he American forces to croas the International boundary If neteary to protec? the border nialnit Jnvusloif It la i nt HI understood that Uencral Funton asked for Instructfons to dross the bofder. but that Te consldeied I : WlTto have d Ser-I HI tlonary authority o do so In an emergency. Kailler ro,ort said that 3.000 men of the United Btate. , Jl fl M ' HI thl.ry. were placed within a few feet of the Mexican, boundary, ready to interfere If an attack iheCirVanil .V.irrin7. Hsl of Agua I'rsta, Sonoru, by tho Villa army should result n shootlnK IMo Amw lorn tmliow twi. n i ssssssi F. D.vK .commander. Im he would t.k.ver, prXloVtopSvV mf I an American town shot up," he said) General Davis Issued Instructions to riildini. m T. imJ-. .?1 1 '0 0 '' H , -ary to k..p within doors, B.t behind aJob. walls' and noV t! ? t.u.t to" woXi 2ar.i.Ap7ufbut.U. P' ' bU" ' llasssssssl |