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Show VILLA CHASE WILL iT BE n NO PROSPECT OF WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS FROM MEXICO, SAYS GENERAL SCOTT. Steps Will Be Taken to Increase Efficiency Effi-ciency of Force Now in Field, it Being Admitted There is Danger of Clash with Natives. San Antonio, Texas. General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff, declared on Sunday that he saw "no prospect of the withdrawal" of American troops. It was pointed out that the force General Pershing has in Mexico is in need of recuperation and Genera! Scott intimated that about all that would be done now would be to take such steps as would increase the effi ciency of the organization. The Sixth cavalry from the district near Browns ville, Texas, passed through here Sunday Sun-day on its way to Columbus, where it will remain with the remainder of the 2,300 men General Funston ordered there last week to be used by General Pershing if he required them. There is no disposition to deny that the pursuit of Villa is at a standstill. The official admission has been made that General Pershing has concentrated con-centrated his force, drawing back on the main column the detached cavalry forces that were for a time whipping the country in the vicinity of Parral. Army officers generally expressed the opinion that the failure to withdraw with-draw the troops now or very soon greatly increased the dan&ars of clashes clash-es with Carranza's forces and on such scale that military operations might be made necessary over a much greater great-er scope than contemplated in the chase for Villa. Reliable reports that an anti-American sentiment is growing rapidly south of the border have been received at headquarters, and no secret is made that credence is placed in these reports. |
