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Show READY TO I i STRIKE AT I VILLISTAS I Advanco Guard of Punitive Expedt- i fl . tlon Is Expected to Move Across Border at Once El Paso", Texas, March 14. H Through tho thick. veil .of censorship which has been established by. Gen? t H ornl Funston, sufficient information. B leaked through today to confirm the ) BB belief that the advance guard of tho H first expeditionary forco may start in BH pursuit of Villa In a .tlmo to bo meas- HBJ ured by houm. Tho main forco may BH not Btart for two or thrco days. , ;BH Whllo tho bordor waited In keen I AVJ expectation for word that United j lt States soldiers had crossed tho intor- BBJ national lino, roports flowed In from j fl Mexican sources to tho effect that , B Mexico's arch bandit had .already BBs been surrounded by tho troops of wVJ Cnrranza. Tho first chief wns ap- BBV parontly making strenuous offorU to Hl anticipate tho Amorlcans, nnd waa jB reported from several sources to B havo concentrated moro than 10,000 j BBl troops at different points about Casa3 BKB Grandes region In Chihuahua, where B Villa Is supposed to bo i BH Concentration Complete. BBB Tho officers "ot tho Tenth cnvalry lort hero today for Columbus shortly -Yfll nfterjf was learned thnt tho passage HBV of tronsp'orrtmniB between "horo nnd vbYJ tho sccno of tho Villa raid had coased H They wero p'ractfcolly tho last of the W corps officers who were stationed flBl here. Tho stoppage of tho transport aH trains was regarded as particularly ' wl significant, as tholr movement had ''!i never ceased, night or day, slnco tho i&PH news of tho Columbus raid was Hash. j "rH cd through tlio country. Their stopp- j TJW lng now Is taken to mean, that tho j ijH concentration jp"f supplies ,utColumbua ., r - jyfl has been iirn.qtlc.aUy, completed. t 1 S On account of the 'cenqorshlp tho J little doflnnte nows that reached hero i 'BH fiom Columbus was brought by in- !'H coming passenger!. They 'reported B-l that whllo military aqtlvltlos woro , BBH being carried forward at fovorlsh BBBJ speed, tho Indications were thnt it j jjH would bo some days at least boforo 'flBl tho innln punttlvo forco moved. It B 1b considered likely, howovor thnt I'M .... ...iIm i. t ia rt aF i VI 8ora.Q,.adviico scouting parties may ! crosstyoTuer within tho next j twenty-four fours. jHI A number of motion plcturo mon IjBBH who hurried out of hero early today- I ;HB In tho belief that tho crossing wna H about to bo effected returned dls- i fBB appointed. They reported that Gen- rfHfl oral Pershing, In command of tha BI expedition had Issued posltlvo orders 'Hi that no pictures could bo taken. IfjHVJ Tho Btrong under current of ox- l cltement nlong tho bonier wns stir. f IB I red today by tho nows that a South- BB ern Pacific train had been fired upen , 'iBB nt Rolen, Texas, seventeen miles east l iB of hero. Conductor Rogers, In caro flVfl of tho train, snld that sovoral shots ( qHABJ hnd been fired, from underbrush neap 3 the station. j Tho local police fcontlnuo to arrest '$H Moxlcans who wero supposed to bo 'll in communication with tho Vllllstn'i .flB-i and eleven, all former officers, Ren- 'lYH crals' or cabinet ministers of Villa, ; H aro now In J or' w,,,, th(,r') j "ffaB havo been no disturbances ot any ij (;$SB kind hero, tho apprehension felt by i ';jl tho American population was Indl- ' cotcd by heavy sales of guns and - wB ammunition In tho last fow days. j fH Gun stores reported today that thoy ,1 ! wero almost completely sold out of. JB i ammunition. Bf-Bj |