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Show I String Is Tied To I . Permit For Use I 1 Of Mexican Lines B B H U, S. Officers expected Army Would H Have Complete Supervision of H Shipments B San Antonio, ToxaB, March 29. H Oeiior'al Kunstnn lind not received of H ' flchil notifications Into today that ho B wns at liberty to ship supplies thru H Juarez to Casas Grandes, hut orders H nlrcndy Issued to tho commissary do H partment were such that no delay H & 'Mas expected. It was said Hint with m j '"' n fow l,n,lrH ,,,(' stores which the H Hi quartermaster's department had been B accumulating nt til l'aso could bo H billed to points along the Northwest H ' crn, onco tho official sanction was H Thu position talccn by tho advance H forces of Oencrai Pershing made H some now rotlng of supplies nccos- m sary and Carranza's permission to B uso tho railroad for transportation of 1 mippIIob was welcomed as a relief, H even although hearing tho handicap M of tho conditions "ship as coramor B clot freight." m Disappointment of tlio staff officers H t nt headquarters was unconcealed, B however. They had expected tho m do facto government of Mexico tn B glvo unqualified consent to tho use m of tho Northwestern. Tho permission H to ship fluppllpH ns commercial H freight consigned to somcouo not ill H icctly connected with tho army, nnd H failure to glvo the American army H tho right to supcrvlso the transporta m tlon of its own supplies was regarded M ns Inadequate H Tho first shipment of supplies will 1 bo sent from Juarez to Casas Grande, M and from there distributed by motors 1 nnd wagon trains to tho detachments H that aro beating the trails ISO miles B to tho south. H It had been hoped by flcnerat Fun m Eton and his staff, that Carranza B would not lmposo conditions, In H which case rolling stock from tho H American side would bo moved to tho m tracks of tho Northwestern and Am- B erlcan railroad men would man tho B trains and American soldiers would HBb servo ns guards for tho trains. This m plan bas been spoiled howover, by H tho conditional permission of Carran- B rn. Ofllccrs woro frank In tho ox BBK prc8slon of their fears that shipments HbB innilo under tho ordinary rulos of M tralllc would bo lost or dangerously H delayed between Juarez and points B of destination. It was pointed out that tho track of tho railroad Is In B bad shape; that tho management. H would havo difficulty In obtaining B equipment and that more tcntatlvo ! , arrangements now disarranged, had H been made for providing rolling stock H from the American sldo and that Am. H erlcan crews were uniting at Kl l'aso H for tlio opportunity of handling trains. H Also It was pointed out that tho i army, men had expected to guard tho shipments en route, Carranza's permission for tho ship nient of supplies only as commercial freight bas brought to a standstill all such plans nnd In the opinion of army ar-my ofllcers, lowered tho chanco of effective support by tho commissary department of the men In tho Held. Do your trading nt homo with tho man who pays taxes hero,. |