| Show GREATER F NEEDED IN GENERAL FUNSTON ASKS WAR department FOR MORE MEN TO AID PERSHING field operation operations in campaign against villa la so extended that it Is I 1 deemed doomed advisable to send no san antonio texas general frederick Fun feneton fiton asked the uie war depart nent anent on tuesday for more troop troops to bend into 31 mexico exico only after lone long con aide aeration de ration of the advisability of continuing the operation operations against ag alnet francisco villa with the be forces now corn landed by general pershing gen eral pershing Pe had suggested BUtr that tha t another iother I regiment be cent sent to him and general funston asked the depart ment tor for what he characterized as is a an Wl ulc quate equate force it waa announced at general auns funs astone 1 ons headquarters that the fifth cay ca airy ry of which one squadron Is at fort blyer va another at fort cayen worth kan and the third at fort sheridan III would be brought to the border at once and bent sent forward along general line of commini cation to casas grandes the only reason given iven for strength nang 1 general a force known iby by the public generally to be consider ebly ably more than was that his field of operations OPert oper ions had so extent extended led that his hi main line of communication land the lines were much weaker tha thai i they should be |
